Help Milestone WiFi Problem

[JafoFubar]

Hi all,
First, thanks for a great site. I have found a lot of help here and I really appreciate it.
I just got my Milestone a few days ago. I rooted it. Everything is fine except I can't get my WiFi working properly. If I have it set to DHCP, it won't get an address. If I set it to static, it connects to the router but not to the internet. I searched on these forums and did a general google search and have found lots of threads about it but no solution that I can see. Is this a bug that can't/won't be fixed?
A little info
Linksys WRT54GS running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (04/23/10) mega - build 14311
I'm using 128 bit WEP
I can connect to my neighbor's unprotected wireless and connect to the internet ok on his network but can't on my WEP network.

Any ideas would be appreciated
TIA

 

[mixpix]

Did you put your routers IP address in as the gateway?

 

[mixpix]

Did you put your routers IP address in as the gateway? (When doing manual setup)

 

[JafoFubar]

Yes I did. I also tried my router, opendns servers and google servers as the dns servers.
Thanks for the quick reply

 

[mixpix]

Well since you can connect to other networks without a problem its probably your router.

Try disabling WEP and see if you can connect.

 

[JafoFubar]

OK. I'll try that. I have put it in a DMZ but that didn't work.
Thanks

 

[JafoFubar]

I disable WEP and just ran an open network and it connects fine. Other threads have suggested using WPA so I tried that. I had tried it before but it didn't work. I must have set something up wrong before because it works now. I guess either Android or Motorola has a problem with WEP. One of my laptops doesn't support WPA so now it won't connect. I guess it's time to upgrade the NIC on that laptop anyway.
Anyway, the Milestone works now.
Thanks for the help!

 

[mixpix]

It might have just been the router screwing up. I bet if you switch it back to WEP it will work.

 

[JafoFubar]

Nah. Tried that. There's a lot of threads out there saying Android or Milestone has problems with WEP. I likely just fat fingered something when I tried to set up WPA. WEP is kind of ancient in security terms anyway so maybe Android/Milestone decided it wasn't secure enough and decided not to support it. Who knows. At least I got it working. Now on to the next problem
Thanks again.