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DS Misc > DS lite: Homebrew Wi-Fi Not Working?

#126756 - Filb - Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:35 am

I recently got a Black DS lite (European) and all the Wi-Fi enabled homebrew just won't work on it. On my "phat" DS everything works just fine!

Even the "Wifi_lib_test" by Stephen Stair doesn't work on my DS lite.
It boots, but it won't find any Access Point -- neither in "Wardriving" mode nor in "Connect to an AP" mode using "Use Nintendo WFC Data"!

I'm sorry if this is a known issue, but is there any way to fix this?
Wi-Fi enabled commerical games and the official Nintendo DS Browser all work fine!

#126757 - chuckstudios - Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:44 am

90% chance that it's caused by an out-of-date wifi lib which is incompatible with the DS Lite's WiFi hardware.


On a side note, that should be added to this thread, shouldn't it?

#126771 - Filb - Thu Apr 26, 2007 1:22 pm

Yeah, you're right. For some reason I never see sticky threads... :/

#126796 - wandafritsch - Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:18 pm

Just have a look at WiFi enabled homebrew (version listing) .

#127037 - jbullfrog - Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:05 pm

I had homebrew wifi working fine for NDSMail, and DSLive Weather and DSLinux.

Then one day out of the blue, they all stopped working. I deleted all the apps, redownloaded the latest version, and patched them with the correct DLDI (I have a M3 Simply, so I used the R4 Patch)

However, nothing works anymore. Any clue why? What Can I do to correct this?

Also, my ds lite is the new batch. All my regular games work fine.

#127163 - wandafritsch - Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:59 pm

jbullfrog wrote:
However, nothing works anymore. Any clue why? What Can I do to correct this?


Try this application(s): http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=13085

They are made with dswifi03.d and will work.....

:-)

#127262 - HyperHacker - Tue May 01, 2007 7:09 am

Has anyone else found the DS Lite's wifi hardware is weaker? I can find a lot more APs with my DS Phat than my Lite sitting right next to it.
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#127281 - oofrab - Tue May 01, 2007 11:06 am

I have a DS Lite from June 2006 and I have a hard time connecting with Wifi in homebrew using DHCP. Commercial games are no problem and I have a workaround for dslinux.

For example, using dswifi_lib_test (0.3d version) I can see APs when searching for them, but cannot connect. I do not use any WEP or hidden AP (no problem around here...). When capturing packets I see the association and authentication and the beginning of a DHCP negotiation, which subsequently fails with a DHCP NAK reply from the AP.

I do believe that this problem is different from some of the problems above, so my guess is that there are several different bugs left in the dswifi code.