Android Connect to wifi with programmatic WifiConfiguration

Question

I have a problem when I want to connect my device to an existing network wifi.

That is the situation:

I am looking to an existing configured network, if there is not the one I am looking for I build it and then I try to connect the phone.

When the wifi configuration is built manually using the phone interface, I can find it and then connect to it. But when I tried to build the configuration programmaticly Android cannot connect the phone to the network.

I have got the following message : "Association request to the driver failed".

I am wondering if the association that failed is the association between the scanned network and the configurated network. BUt I don't know why and so I don't know how to manage this problem.

EDIT: And I forget to say, that my WifiConfiguration is exactly the same as the one is created manually because I get the info from the conf with some logs.

EDIT2 : Here is my wificonf (network is protected by a wep key) :

  WifiConfiguration wifiConf = new WifiConfiguration();
    wifiConf.SSID = "\"ssid\"";
    wifiConf.wepKeys[0] = "\"password\"";
    wifiConf.wepTxKeyIndex = 0;
    wifiConf.hiddenSSID = false;
    wifiConf.status = WifiConfiguration.Status.DISABLED;
    wifiConf.priority = 40;
    wifiConf.allowedAuthAlgorithms.set(WifiConfiguration.AuthAlgorithm.OPEN);
    wifiConf.allowedAuthAlgorithms.set(WifiConfiguration.AuthAlgorithm.SHARED);
    wifiConf.allowedGroupCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.GroupCipher.WEP40);
    wifiConf.allowedGroupCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.GroupCipher.WEP104);
    wifiConf.allowedGroupCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.GroupCipher.CCMP);//+
    wifiConf.allowedGroupCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.GroupCipher.TKIP);//+
    wifiConf.allowedKeyManagement.set(WifiConfiguration.KeyMgmt.NONE);
    wifiConf.allowedPairwiseCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.PairwiseCipher.CCMP);
    wifiConf.allowedPairwiseCiphers.set(WifiConfiguration.PairwiseCipher.TKIP);
    wifiConf.allowedProtocols.set(WifiConfiguration.Protocol.RSN);
    wifiConf.allowedProtocols.set(WifiConfiguration.Protocol.WPA);

EDIT3 : I already add the permission in AndroidManifest :

uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" uses-permission android:name="android.permission.UPDATE_DEVICE_STATS" uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE"

I hope my problem is clear and hope too that someone could help me.

could you post some code excerpts where you create it and trying to connect to it. thank you. — Sergey Benner, Jan 16 '12 at 16:49
[here][1] you will get your answer. It helped me also. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8818290/how-to-connect-to-a-specific-wifi-network-in-android-programmatically — Ashher Alam, Jun 24 '13 at 11:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 29 '12 at 14:57

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<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

answered Mar 29 '12 at 14:57

Heather McVay

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 28 '15 at 20:43

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This is the correct form of this setting:

wifiConfiguration.SSID = "\"" + networkSSID + "\"";

edited Mar 28 '15 at 20:43

Stuart Siegler

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answered Mar 28 '15 at 19:50

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sorry, this answer isn't clear. can you add some more detail? – Martin Serrano Mar 28 '15 at 19:54

Android Connect to wifi with programmatic WifiConfiguration

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