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GirLuvsDroid · January 30th, 2010, 05:57 PM

Joe, you are the MAN!!! Thanks to you, my WiFi is up and running.

Now that Joe has taught me how to install the WiFi fix file the easy way, using only my Droid, I'm going to share the learning with you:

1. In preparation, make sure you have Root Explorer installed on your Droid (it costs a couple of bucks, but after spending HOURS trying to install this file using ADK and the run commands, it’s worth much more than that to me).

2. Download the tiwlan_drv.ko file from the tasmanian_droid forum at Alldroid to the root of your SD card.

3. Open Root Explorer, scroll down to system, then lib, then all the way down to modules. Tap the white button at the top so that it says “Mount R/O.”

4. Long press on the file tiwlan_drv.ko file, select “Rename” and add the extension .bak to the file.

5. Go back to the main directory and scroll down to sdcard and find the WiFi fix file you downloaded there, then long press and select “Move” (copy won’t work). If you’ve done it correctly, you’ll see a “Paste” button at the bottom as you navigate through the directories back to modules.

6. In modules, click “Paste,” then long press on the file and select “Permissions.” For ”User,” check the boxes for Read and Write (but NOT Execute); for “Group” and “Others,” check only Read, then tap “OK.”

7. The details under the file name should show “rw-r--r--“ and should be identical to those for the file you renamed with the .bak extension.

That’s it, your WiFi should be up and running!

Edit: corrected a typing error (Joe was right, as usual!).