Dlink DGL-4300 and 770 hate each other.
 

Has anyone that has the dlink 4300 gotten Wifi to work with the 770? The only way I've been able to do it is with no security. Any kind of encryption and the 770 fails authentication. Using firmware 1.6 on the 4300 and version 3.2005.51-13 on the 770.

You might have to use WPA security, instead of WEP. My friend did.

I've tried WPA/WPA2/WEP and none of them work. I thought it might be the passphrase length issue, but short and long passphrases didn't work either.

I have one of the DLink 4x00 class units with the hardware packet shaper in it as well, but the problems I am seeing are consistent across other vendors' offerings as well.

There is an open bug discussing strange wireless hardware/driver behavior on the N770. I found that having a consistent stream of I/O (ping the local subnet default gateway, F'rex) improves the linl stability, and disabling interface teardown/negative dns caching improves application level stability.

Over in the "Hanging at NOKIA splash screen" thread you mention having the same booting problems I'm seeing. When I did get lucky the one time and my 770 booted without being in R&D mode, I wasn't able to connect to my WEP-secured access point. I chalked it up to entering the key wrong (several times), but the same key worked when I subsequently got my 770 going in R&D mode.

dgl-4300 used to work but now it is over grrrrrrr!
 

I have been happily using my dgl-4300 firmware version 1.4 and my Nokia770 together in WPA mode for the last 6 months.

Today I couldn't keep my hands to myself and upgraded to firmware version 1.6 - That was it!!!!!!!!!!!

Now i cant get it to work in neither wep, wpa nor wpa2.

I reinstalled 1.4 and restored my saved settings and the old connection was kept in the Nokia770, but no way I can get it to work again.

I love my Nokia770 but it has to be really careful now. The dgl-4300 is a nice device which everybody on the network benefit from and unprotected wireless is not an option.

Is anybody else getting these to babies to talk to each other?

It's working again. I don't know exactly why. So should others have the same setup, then yes! - it's possible ;-)

Well, my personal opinion about the quality of D-Link gear is unprintable, so I won't say more than that I think D-link makes some of the cheapest, shoddiest network gear out there. Sure, all consumer cheapo routers stink more or less, but the dozen or so D-link devices I've come into contact with have all been lousy in some way.

Another problem with these low end wi-fi routers is that enabling encryption actually slows the routing process down. My recommendation is to setup MAC authentication and if you want to use encryption, just use the bare minimum (WEP 40bit).

Personally, I'd say use WPA anyway. I'd rather take the slowdown (and the bottleneck is usually the internet connection anyway) because anything short of WPA just isn't even nearly secure.

Re: Dlink DGL-4300 and 770 hate each other.
 

I'm having trouble with my Nokia 770 and my DGL-4300.
I am able to connect to the router just fine, but when I try to connect to a webpage I get a 'network error'.
The odd thing is that I can open up a web page if I just type in the IP address.
Also I can connect to a media server on my internal network just fine.

So I thought that it might be a DNS problem, so I tried manually assigning the DNS server IP (trying the router, my ISP DNS server, and a free dns server). No luck none of them did anything.

The really odd thing is that I am sometime able to connect and browse the web (seems to work more often when I have left the device off for an extended period).
Also I am able to connected to a neighbor's router and browse normally.

I don't know wtf is going on. I've got the latest firmware for the router (1.8 I think), and the latest OS for the Nokia.

I tried turning on and off every setting on the router that I thought could be causing a problem, but to no avail.

I really hate wireless, it never works right.

anyone have any suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? I not really familiar with linux, so I don't really know what options are open to me to attempt a fix.

Thanks

Re: Dlink DGL-4300 and 770 hate each other.
 

Alright well it seems that the DGL-4300 has some major compatibility issues with the Nokia 770 (at least mine does).
I tried tinkering with a lot of the settings to see if I could resolve the issue, but to no avail.
The router logs don't indicate anything out of the ordinary.

So I bought another wireless router and hooked it up the the DGL-4300, and turned off DNS etc, and made it just a wireless access point (thinking that it was a wireless problem).
That didn't work, so there is something at the wired level on the DGL-4300 that is preventing the 770 from getting out to the net.
I also tried downgrading the firmware to 1.7, that also didn't work.

So I just replaced the router all together. Everything works now.
I am kind of sad though, the DGL-4300 was a good router with good features.

Re: Dlink DGL-4300 and 770 hate each other.
 

I have the DGL-4300 and the wireless connection worked okay on OS 2006, with encryption, but occasionally I'd have connection issues or random reboots on downloads. Disabling encryption seemed to fix it for me. I have yet to try encryption on the OS2007 on 770 edition, because now that I have a Nintendo WII and Nintendo DS, it's easier just to leave the wifi open with a mac address filter. This is on D-Link firmware 1.8. (I'm just reading that they fixed a WPA2 issue with the Nintendo WII in firmware 1.8 so I may try to enable it again) Anyways, the connection drops are due to a bug and are detailed in the bugzilla.