Hi all,
After finally flashing my N770 with the latest revision of ITOS 2006, I
was able to connect to my Linksys WIFI internet router with the same
touch-and-go reliability I had experienced with ITOS 2005, which is much
better than the no connectivity at all I experienced with the first ITOS
2006 that became available.
That said, could someone point me to documents describing the WIFI
hardware subsystem of the N770 and the driver support for it built into the
current revision of ITOS 2006, because it seems that the WIFI circuits need
quite some time after power up and initial program load to start accepting
DCHP IP addresses from every open (not password protected) WIFI internet
router with which I have used my N770. I wonder what is causing this long
delay in accepting dynamically-assigned IP addresses without responding with
local loop-back IP addresses instead. In other words, would this happen if
I were using a USB WIFI dongle with suitable drivers written for and
installed in ITOS 2006 as kernel modules?
Another related question is why isn't one wifi connection always on and
spawned when ITOS 2006 loads in such a way that all programs requiring
internet access can detect this open connection and use it?"
T.I.A. and
B.R.,
Paule
