Squeezebox Players

[Volutar]

Well...

1. It connects to manually entered SSID perfectly normaly even if it's hidden (thus perfectly capable to connect hidden SSIDs).

2. It sees my wireless network after powering on. And perfectly able to reconnect automatically.

3. But surprisingly ignores that, and keep disconnected.

Bottom line: This is the bug, which I expect to be fixed as soon as possible.

[garymc]

A bug is reproducible across different users. So I'd say this is not a bug.  I and others with Radios don't exhibit this problem.  I agree it is a problem with your particular use case and perhaps with more information and testing on your side, folks here can help you diagnose the source of the problem on your end.

To report a bug, enter all the relevant information here:

http://bugs.slimdevices.com/

And then provide a link to the bug here and at "forums.slimdevices.com" and ask for others to vote on the bug. A bug report needs a certain number of votes to get confirmed and get the attention of the developers.  You could also ask the question over at "forums.slimdevices.com" as there are many more experienced users that respond to questions there and someone may have some ideas.

In the meantime (and probably as a permanent solution), I suggest:

1. Unhide SSID

2. Set the radio to a fixed IP address.  If your router is, for example, 192.168.1.1, then do the following:

a. temporarily turn off DHCP in your router

b. do a factory reset on your radio

c. when it can't get an IP address, it will give up and you can see (or scroll down) to an option to manually assign network info.

d. enter the following:

IP address:  192.168.1.xx (where xx is a number outside the DHCP range of your router... in mine the range is 100 to 254, so I give my fixed stuff somethign between 2 and 99.

Subnet:  255.255.255.0

Gateway:  192.168.1.1

DNS: 192.168.1.1

e. turn DHCP in the router back ON

[garymc]

or even try an experiement.

1. unhide SSID

2. unplug radio

3. reboot router

4. plugin radio and make sure connected to WIFI

5. unplug radio

6. plug radio in and see whether it automatically connects to WIFI

[Volutar]

Tried both - disabled "hide SSID" and forced manual IP. No use. It still red.

Then I found same bug

In SSH mode I've inspected /etc/network/interfaces

# cat interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

mapping eth1
        script /etc/network/if_mapping

auto eth1=MySSID_
iface MySSID inet static
        address 192.168.1.14
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns 192.168.1.1
        up echo 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' > /etc/resolv.conf

Interesting, that my SSID was MySSID, not MySSID_. Clearly this character (_) was erroneously added by WiFi configurator. After changing this with "vi" and rebooting device - it normaly reconnected, even with hidden SSID.

So, this character adding is a bug.

[garymc]

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Volutar wrote:

Tried both - disabled "hide SSID" and forced manual IP. No use. It still red.

Then I found same bug

In SSH mode I've inspected /etc/network/interfaces

# cat interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

mapping eth1
        script /etc/network/if_mapping

auto eth1=MySSID_
iface MySSID inet static
        address 192.168.1.14
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        dns 192.168.1.1
        up echo 'nameserver 192.168.1.1' > /etc/resolv.conf

Interesting, that my SSID was MySSID, not MySSID_. Clearly this character (_) was erroneously added by WiFi configurator. After changing this with "vi" and rebooting device - it normaly reconnected, even with hidden SSID.

So, this character adding is a bug.

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glad to hear you tracked it down and it is working now.  Still not sure this is a general bug (otherwise, why wouldn't I have the same issue in connecting to WIFI.  Still worth posting all you found under the bug listing I posted earlier in order to get the attention of a developer.