Cannot connect nrf7002DK to WIFI with statically provided credentials, but wifi_cred shell provisioning works.

[neuromartin]

Dear DevZone Team,

I'm facing a very strange issue whereby the sample code from the Lesson2_Exercise2 of the Wifi Fundamentals course does not allow my development kit to connect via statically provided wifi credentials on my nRF7002-DK. The code gets to the "Lesson2_Exercise2: Connecting to Wi-Fi" print statement and then hangs forever without connecting. I have verified the credentials, the wifi security level, have tried flashing the board in secure and non-secure targets to no avail. The board/WIFI were also tested via shell provisioning with the "wifi_cred" command and the same SSID and password work for the shell provisioning, however, I cannot get it to connect with static credentials.

I would love some help! Thank you :)

2642.nrf7002dk_nrf5340_cpuapp.conf5466.nrf7002dk_nrf5340_cpuapp_ns.conf

[AHaug]

Hi,

Could you state which SDK version you're using as well as which board revision? 

Do you see the same thing when building with the solution as well as with the resulting code you get when following the steps in the exercise?

Kind regards,
Andreas

[AHaug]

Hi,

Could you also verify that the issue persists if you go to the next step? In case that you're testing on step 11, then could you continue and check with the following steps as well? From step 12 and out you're supposed to comment out parts that has to do with static provisioning, so there are still some parts to do.

Kind regards,
Andreas

[neuromartin]

Hi,

I'm using the following:

SDK: v2.6.1

Toolchain: v2.6.1

IDE: Cursor v0.35.0

Cursor is a VSCode clone currently built on VSCode Version: 1.89.1

Board: nRF7002-DK

I see the same thing with the solution as well as following the steps. As mentioned I can get the sample code to work through shell provisioning (Exercise steps 12-15) but not through static provisioning (Exercise steps 1-11).

Best,

Martin

[neuromartin]

I'd like to get the static provisioning to work, as it is more convenient for the project I am working on. I understand it is not recommended for production but for this specific context it shouldn't pose issues and would save us quite a bit of time :))

Best,

Martin

[AHaug]

Hi Martin,

Ah, thank you for elaborating. This makes it somewhat more clear for me. I discussed this with my colleagues and we think that a better angle for you may be to use the Wi-Fi Station sample instead. This sample has a section regarding static configuring, which might be of help.

Have you investigated this sample already?

Kind regards,
Andreas