My office building has been recently covered in wifi access points, and since then I've found that my n9 will regularly get itself in a state where it thinks it is connected over wifi, but has no connectivity (red arrow, no IM, timeouts etc).
After some investigation with our IT dept, I was told that different groups of APs in the building have different subnets associated with them, even though they share an SSID. My n9 should be doing a DHCP renew whenever it switches between them but isn't, so ends up non-routable. IT claim that other phones do this, and the n9 hardware is compliant, so it must be a bug in the driver.
I found out that the following script will do a DHCP renew on harmattan:
Code:
PID=`pidof udhcpc`
kill -SIGUSR1 $PID
and sure enough when i run that I see the IP change and the connection recover.
What I'm missing is a way to do automatically when the wifi AP MAC changes but the SSID doesn't. Anyone have any ideas?
My office building has been recently covered in wifi access points, and since then I've found that my n9 will regularly get itself in a state where it thinks it is connected over wifi, but has no connectivity (red arrow, no IM, timeouts etc).
After some investigation with our IT dept, I was told that different groups of APs in the building have different subnets associated with them, even though they share an SSID. My n9 should be doing a DHCP renew whenever it switches between them but isn't, so ends up non-routable. IT claim that other phones do this, and the n9 hardware is compliant, so it must be a bug in the driver.
I found out that the following script will do a DHCP renew on harmattan:
What I'm missing is a way to do automatically when the wifi AP MAC changes but the SSID doesn't. Anyone have any ideas?