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cool thanks for the info. the recessed one would be more ideal, except you still need an antenna sticking out of the ds, which isn't very ideal. maybe in times where you REALLY need that extra 25' or 50' range. i dont very much like standing directly in front of someones house to steal their internet so i can check my email in the opera browser. or whatever it is i'm doing. dosen't happen very often but I could see where it could come in handy. other than borrowing other peoples wifi connections, i can't see the use for increased range. I can already connect to my wifi from across the street (but i do have a beefy router). you said you have a pcmcia card? i take it you have a laptop then? if your laptop can connect to the ap you are trying to infiltrate, then you could buy a wifi usb connector, turn it into a soft ap, then connect the ds through the softap on the laptop, which in turn goes over wifi to the ap. get it? essentially turning your laptop into a wifi proxy. problem solved? its a bit complicated and the laptop would essentially have to "serve" the wifi connection. but if you need the ds to connect that that ap, this could work. i'm assuming you dont have your own internet connection or dont have a wifi router and are trying to use someone else's, right?

doubtful. i've noticed that the nds wifi software only detects wifi access points with relatively good signal strength. it probably discards all ap's with a signal strength less than 20% or so. for instance: wifi_lib_test can pick up 4 wifi connections from outside my house. only 2 show up in the nds wifi software (the ones that have better than 20%). i'm fairly certain that both pieces of software have the same wifi detecting capability, its just that the nds wifi software discards the access points that have signal less than 20% or so (i'm getting the % from the wifilib test wardriving mode). The wifi_lib_test will report a signal of ANY strength, even 0 or 1%. I remember reading in a forum somewhere and someone had said "think of the nds wifi antenna as a 2 inch wire with aluminum foil wrapped around it". I seriously doubt any software modification could increase the wifi range of the ds. Now, I don't know if a hardware mod tutorial exists or not, but I believe it would be possible to modify the hardware to receive a better signal. After all, its just a wire antenna. Probably boosting the gain somehow or making the antenna bigger would accomplish this. But it would be hardly worth it, since the ds inherently has gimped wifi hardware. Its only limited to 2mbps. So this would only accomplish the goal of increasing the ds's range; which I admit would be nice; but it wouldn't make the ds any better at doing wifi (eg. access times, bandwidth) software mod/patch/firmware hacks are likely out of the question. I dont know much about the inner workings of the ds, but i'm sure if it were possible to do this, someone would have done it by now, since the ds has been out since 2004. hope this answers your question.

this program lets you patch .nds files for the people who have slightly different wifi hardware (usually newer ds lites) to work with sgstair's ds wifilib. if you were unlucky enough to have one of these ds's (which i was) then most wifi ds homebrew wouldn't work with wifi because the homebrew couldn't detect the hardware. patch it with this and in theory any homebrew based on wifilib should now work correctly on problem dslites. while i did get slyphamp to work with my ds, i doubt it will help you with your problem. if your wifi is working in any way in homebrew, then you likely dont need this. besides, i dont think slyphamp supports wep anyways. it only gives you a prompt for the ip address, but not a wep key. i would try disabling wep on your router and instead enable mac address filtering if your router supports it. you will just have you add all your wifi using hardware manually to the list, because it filters out (blocks) any access to mac addresses not in the list. no encryption, but essentially the same security; it keeps unwanted people out.

I tested the other patcher that I posted above, and everything worked the same as the original Gh0st patcher. They were in reply to the same thread so i'm pretty sure that they both attempt to do the exact same thing. I patched cftp.nds (a problem app before) with the new patcher; works just like after the ghost patch (also writes the same 56k worth of data, according to the confirmation popup). Then I patched another copy of cftp.nds with the original patcher, then tried to apply the new patch, and it was successful, but it said modified 0 bytes, so it must haved detected there was a patch applied already (and the wifi still worked after this too).

So am I and the creator the only ones that this patch works for? I've seen the code for this proggy on a japanese webpage, there isn't much too it. and maybe they just need to tweak some bytes here and there for different ds types... http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/Rudolph/2007-06-20 its all in japanese but you can spot where the code is. no idea what it means. but it seems that someone else has made a patcher. i got the link from that blog page. maybe this one will work instead? it looks similar to the one that ghost has made (i did scan it with kaspersky first, passed). http://ftp7.ohpy.com/opftp/index.php?contr...0HDbTgkp65PpA==

well...I didn't dldi patch the homebrew. I have a CycloDS Evolution, which has auto dldi patching. so the answer to your question is technically I patched the file with this program, then my flashcart loaded the .nds into memory, and then it applied the dldi patch, then lauched the executable. I suppose thats the way it works anyways. AFAIK it dosen't patch the file on the microsd card itself. honestly i was quite suprised when it did work. my ds isn't all that new, i probably got it about 2-3 months after they came out (def. before the black ones came out), but I was still having the wifi issues. patched with this proggy and everything is good now.. sorry about your luck...maybe its a different problem? heres what i did: I downloaded the rar, ran the file straight out of the rar, once it ran I clicked browse and pointed to the .nds files on my microsd card, and pressed select, it patched, then i tested it on the ds and they all worked as they should. so after that i copied the exe out of the rar, into my homebrew folder on my microsd card and then i patched the rest from there. I was actually considering selling my dslite and getting a new one just because of this issue... so which files have you patched? and they still dont work? does the patcher give you a confirmation prompt each time you patch telling you how many bytes were altered? if not, it may not have patched correctly. I could send you my patched versions if youd like. Edit: Ender I just read the previous post where you said you have a softap. I'm running a D-Link DGL 4300, which has pretty darn good wifi in it. Are wifi homebrew meant to connect to SoftAP's? I suppose thats the reason to turn the wifi connecter into one (i dont know much about them). Maybe this patch dosent' fix softap issues? or are softap's supposed to work just like a hardware wifi router?

ok wow, that didn't take long at all. i went patching like a mad man and heres what i came up with wifi homebrew that was not working before but works after patch: Lilou's CFTP server DSFTP 2.4.1 DSWeather DSPad Diagnose SlyphAMP SavSender DSAim Even Win2DS! wifi homebrew that worked before and after the patch: wifi_lib_test 0.3.1 ds organize ndsmail (hangs at DHCP, before and after. no change) in other words, everything that was broken as far as wifi on my ds works perfect now. Gh0st, you rock man. I'm pretty new to ds homebrew (just got my flashcart) and this wifi stuff was giving me headaches, because most of it was broken on my ds, but if i put my flashcart in my friends black ds they all worked fine. my experience with each patched app was brief, but everything seems to be fine. I didn't experience any unstability, and the patcher even has a back up option. the patcher does crash each time you use it though (at least on my machine. maybe its .net or something, i'm always having issues with it). after it does the patching it will present you with a dialog that says it altered X bytes, then once you click ok, it crashes and the only way you can shut it down is by going to the task manager. but i dont care, it works!!! I scanned with kaspersky anti virus and it passed. and my ds isn't bricked, far from it! actually works with homebrew now. so excited!

i just tried this with lilou's cftp server, and IT WORKS!!! the server could never see ap's before, but now it works perfectly! oh man i'm so excited because harldly any wifi homebrew worked before....now i have to patch everything. i'll reply later with results!

I have and older ds lite (i bought it about 2 weeks after they came out) and i'm having the same problems. dsftp 2.4.1 dosen't work, neither do most of the wifi homebrew for ds. lilou's cftp dosen't work for me, strangely enough dsorganize works fine, and the newest wifi_lib_test 0.3.1 works (but not any of the older ones). every function works as it should in the new wifi_lib_test. the date on that is may 27 2007. so it seems like they are making progress. but if i put my flashcart in my friends newer black dslite lilou's cftp works as it should (i haven't tried any other wifi homebrew but i suspect they all work). I have the magenta firmware on mine. i'm not sure what firmware my friends ds has though. I've been reading in various threads in this forum about so called fixes for the wifi problems, but it seems like its all on the coding level, not something the end user can do. Most of all those threads are months old now and i wonder if anyone cares anymore. It dosen't seem like ds wifi lib is under any serious development. this forum is getting pretty stagnant too, so maybe ds homebrew is on its way out? shame, i just got my first flashcart 2 weeks ago. does any one know of a way to flash my ds's firmware to an older/newer/ more compatable firmware? and I'm not talking about flashme. I mean the actual NDS firmware from different versions. I dunno, its just an idea. I mean when i can run a wifi homebrew on my ds, and have it not have any kind of wifi connectivity at all, and then take the SAME flashcart and put it in another ds and run the SAME software with the SAME configuration and everything connects smoothly with NO problems (i.e. - THE WIFI WORKS PERFECTLY), then there has to be something conflicting. I dunno...i guess i'm used to the xbox scene, where the hardware wasnt' always identical throughout the various versions, but damn at least all the homebrew ran as intendend on any xbox... ok sorry about the rant/cynicism. I still love the homebrew developers though