[TouchPad Development] Tidusa:
I think I partially solved my problem of connecting to wifi.

A little background on myself. I've been lurking for a long time and holding out on updating my HP Touchpad to Android until today (yes shocking as that may seem), so today was the first time I loaded android onto my touchpad. I followed the instructions to the letter and XRON 2.1 beta seemed insanely awesome.

Everything seemed smooth as butter, until I tried to connect to wifi. Since this was the first time I uploaded android to my touchpad, I can't attribute this problem to anything else. I eliminated the usual suspects (did a little reading beforehand and for the past few hours) and first booted into webOS to see if it was my hardware - wifi was rock solid on webOS so that couldn't be it. Booted back into android and rebooted into clockwork mod - factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache, fix permissions, and that didn't fix anything.

I then uninstalled XRON and installed MIUI to see it might be ROM-related, and I had the same problem. The menu for the wifi settings kept going into "Obtaining IP address...." to "Connecting..." to "Disconnected." I then uninstalled MIUI and installed the older version of XRON 1.3 since I kept reading good reviews on it. That didn't fix it either and it kept coming up with the same problem.

Then I read a couple posts back about changing the router to WPA-2 with PSK rather than WEP, so I went ahead and did that and changed my channel to 4 for good measure. I also did the longpress & tried "forget" on the network in the wifi settings, and re-adding it to see if that would work and also setting wifi to sleep never. That didn't help either.

So, I said to myself I'll cut my losses and I'll at least have a big oversized android media player to work with if nothing else. Then acting on a hunch, I decided to go into advanced settings for wifi and setup a static IP with all the information - subnet mask, DNS, etc. just to see if that would work. Voila. I see my wifi setting go from "Obtaining IP address..." to "Connected." You can imagine my fascination and excitement to see this.

However, when I tested my browser - it didn't automatically load so I knew something was fishy. Before, it was showing the standard "cannot connect to the internet" white page that we all usually get when you can't connect to a network. But this time it was actually loading but stuck in the initial loading spot - so I was thinking I was on the right track.

So I go back into my wifi settings and then disable the static IP and test the browser again. Internet started working. I was so excited!!!....... until it disconnected after mere seconds lol.

So the state of the situation is (cliff notes below):

1. Booted XRON 2.1 for first time on HP Touchpad today. Touchpad was completely stock before this (hard to believe), but kept reading good reviews so took a shot today.

2. Wifi was not working.

3. Tried a bunch of different ROMs (MIUI, earlier version of XRON), router settings, clockwork mod wipes to fix error. Nothing working.

4. Reflashed back to XRON 2.1 and decided to just cut my losses.

5. Set up Static IP and I am finally connected.

6. However, I have to disable Static IP immediately after connected so I can actually use my browser or market. I get max 10-15 seconds of internet time and I'm disconnected.

7. Wash, rinse, and repeat if I try to connect to wifi (I go into wifi settings -> enable static ip -> press connect on my wifi network -> disable static ip -> use browser or market -> works for a little while -> disconnects).

Awesome work on the ROM thus far. This post wasn't meant as a rant, but as a way to hopefully help with future releases as there seems to be a glimmer of hope if this helps pinpoint the problem.