Raspberry Pi Pico W Access Point - cannot change default IP

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Hi Jim,

It looks like the ap.active(True) sets the ip to the default/previous value. Try swapping the ap.ifconfig(...) and ap.active(True) lines like this:

import network
ap = network.WLAN(network.AP_IF)
ap.config(ssid='picow', password='picow')
print('01 ',ap.ifconfig())
ap.active(True)
print(ap)
print('02 ',ap.ifconfig())
ap.ifconfig(('192.168.12.1','255.255.255.0','192.168.12.1','0.0.0.0'))
print('03 ',ap.ifconfig())

while ap.active() == False:
  pass

print('Connection successful')
print('04 ',ap.ifconfig())

this gave me:

%Run -c $EDITOR_CONTENT
01  ('0.0.0.0', '0.0.0.0', '0.0.0.0', '0.0.0.0')
<CYW43 AP up 192.168.4.1>
02  ('192.168.4.1', '255.255.255.0', '192.168.4.1', '0.0.0.0')
03  ('192.168.12.1', '255.255.255.0', '192.168.12.1', '0.0.0.0')
Connection successful
04  ('192.168.12.1', '255.255.255.0', '192.168.12.1', '0.0.0.0')
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