WiFly-EZX Router Connection Issue

Wireless & IoT
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Hello,

I’ve been trying to get my WiFly-EZX to connect to my router, unfortunately it’s unable to obtain an IP address from it. Although my router does see it under “Wireless Nodes” however, it only displays the Mac of the WiFly.

Currently it’s set up on a bread board, with 3.3V on pin 1, GND on pin 10 and 3.3V on pin 8 when I need to connect to it via adhoc to configure it. This is the only way I can connect to it to configure it as I don’t have any breakout boards to usb or serial. I’m using “Putty” from my laptop. I’ve also tried Comm Operator v4.8

Here is the version info of my WiFly:

wifly-EZX Ver 4.00.1, Apr 19 2013 11:47:20 on RN-171

And this is what I’m using to set it up:

set wlan auth 4 [Yes my router does use WPA2-PSK]

set wlan ssid MySSID [My routers SSID]

set wlan phrase testing123 [My wifi password]

set wlan channel 8 [Yes my router is set on channel 8 ]

set wlan join 1 [I set this to 1, so when I remove the 3.3V from pin 8, the WiFly will attempt to connect to my router]

save

These are the commends I’m issuing before I remove power and unplug 3.3V from PIN 8 (GPIO9). I have also tried “reboot” after save but still same results. Am I missing anything else here? Could it be a router issue?

My router is a Linksys WRT54GL with (DD-WRT) firmware flashed on it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time! :slight_smile:

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Problem solved.

I had to:

set ip dhcp 1

Not sure what it was set by default. Again to sum up for those getting stuck somewhere:

set wlan auth 2 [In the manual “2” is for WPA1, however a quick “get wlan auth” shows that it’s WPA2. It’s best to confirm after you set. My WiFly ver is 4.00.1]

set wlan ssid YourRouterSSID [Your wifi SSID]

set wlan phrase PASSWORD [Your Wifi Passowrd]

set wlan join 1 [for automatically connecting to the specified SSID upon startup]

save

Disconnected power, then made sure Pin 8 (GPIO9) was pulled low, so it doesn’t start it adhoc mode again.

Should connect to your router afterwords. All this was done through the adhoc connection to the wifly using any putty. Could probably use any mobile device too.