Did not work for me. I have deleted/recreated the connection several times in my troubleshooting effort.


Didjit

UPDATE: I'm now able to hold a connection to my Router and N800. Seems I have to reboot the router cause it holds onto the IP of the original connection. Any who, to try to work around this problem I set up the connection with a hardcoded IP address. The device shows connected in my router and the connection is active in the N800. However, I cannot hit any site in the browser ("Unable to Connect To Server" ) error. I cannot even Ping the N800 from my PC even though my router and N800 says its connected. I have no problem pinging other wireless devices on my network.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is one Xmas gift turning out to be a bust :-(

Didjit

I too am having the same error.

I have no router at home.

This is happening when I try to connect through via free wifi sites like coffeehouses, etc.

Bug #2464 reopened.

I'm getting the error at home, Netgear WGR614 (I think) and N810. Sometimes rebooting the router and the IT works. Sometimes it hooks up automatically.
It had been working better, but I deleted all the default connections to reestablish and now it seems flakier. However before I had turned off the PSM. I've just turned it off again and will try a little later to see if this helps.
At work and relative's houses (with other brand routers) it works well.

I get a similar error AFTER upgrading from OS2007.

My N800 is often unable to recognize my WLAN (D-Link DWL-G700AP). Sometimes it recognize the WLAN but I get a generic "Error during connecting". If I tap "Retry" it seems like the WLAN is not available any more.

Once on 5 times I'm able to connect, but connection hangs after a few minutes...

I get the same error with other AP too...

When I encountered this bug, I had success with the following method :

1) Completely reset wireless router (Linksys WRT54G), essentially killing the current WLAN. *Note: This is different from rebooting the router. Rebooting did NOT work in my case.*
2) Access router through router's IP address and reconstruct network from scratch (actually a fairly quick process).
3) Reconfigure network settings on each computer (also pretty quick), reflecting changes to new WLAN.
4) Check settings on N800 to be certain that the weps, etc. are current.

In short, I scrapped my network and started from scratch. I'm not sure why, but it worked like a charm.

Best of luck~
Octarine

I played around with this a bit more. It seems the N800 is temperamental with WIFI. I was able to change the mhz channels the Router broadcasts on and by doing this I was able to get and hold a connection in the Connection Manager. However, I still cannot get a site to load in the browser.

I'm calling Nokia today to send this guy back. I believe I have a lemon. So many other people don't have this problem. I have tried with 3 different routers and cannot browse a site. Re flashed,rebooting, deleted and added connections, yada yada . Nothing works.....

Didjit

I'm wondering if this problem has something to do with the method for obtaining an IP address. My WiFi network at home is set up for DHCP and I have no problem there.

I've been able to connect to two WiFi "hotspots" so far--one hair salon and my company's guest AP.

Every other unsecured network I've tried to connect to has given me the error message mentioned above about not being able to obtain an IP address.

What the Connection applet needs is a convenient check box to allow you to pick an IP address if DHCP is not available.

I have the same problem, with a mac-mini internet sharing connection. All the resto of the devies (macbook pro, iphone) where able to get an IP address of the mac mini. I tried disabling the WEP encryption to no avail.

Before we had a Netgear 314 router that was working fine. I just created the connection with an IP address and the mac-mini info and it works, but it's annoying.