wi fi cf help

[onenblue]

I got the wi fi cf card and installed the driver. I can send and receive email great, but when I loaded net front I can find the icon. I see that it is loaded in the clie files, but I cant figure out how to make an icon. I deleted it and reloaded it but no diffrence. Any help ??????

[n2ifp]

Originally posted by onenblue
I got the wi fi cf card and installed the driver. I can send and receive email great, but when I loaded net front I can find the icon. I see that it is loaded in the clie files, but I cant figure out how to make an icon. I deleted it and reloaded it but no diffrence. Any help ??????

Yes, two things, either dump NetFront or make at least 6 megabytes of free RAM available for installation. I recommend dumping it, it takes up far too much RAM, slooow, and gets far too many page errors.

I use Blazer and WebProV for my browsers. BTW, congrats on getting your card working :) Blazer is free if your a Sprint PCS customer or WebProV can be found here: http://www.no-rulz.net/WebProV.zip This is what is used on the Tungsten.

[onenblue]

Thanks it works great now. I am internet abled.....

[Unregistered]

could you tell me if it is possible to pigtail the CF card to attach an external antenna ?

[mzenker]

I second the congratulations on getting the card running, I can't get mine running. I have an Apple Airport network, no WEP incription, the led on the card flashes but I never get connected, I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,
Marlene

[onenblue]

the instructions say that if the light is flashing slowly its connectd, and when it flashes fast data is being transfered. you dont have to wep incrip the card only if your system is using it. When i go to my friends house i set the cf card to .defalt and i get on his network. He is using dlink and i dont have a problem there. It took me a bit to get the settings right at first. Ok I admit I had to read the instruction a couple of times. Don't tell any one.

[onenblue]

A pig tail might work but I would be concered about the power draw might be to much for it. why were you thinking of using it that way??

[CosmicBlend]

Originally posted by mzenker
I second the congratulations on getting the card running, I can't get mine running. I have an Apple Airport network, no WEP incription, the led on the card flashes but I never get connected, I would appreciate any help.

Thanks in advance,
Marlene

Try manually setting all of the stuff, such as IP address, subnet, gateway and DNS sometimes it does not recieve the information correctly and can cause problems. I had this problem with mine. It seems like its connected my network sees it but it acts like its not. Just manually set everything and i think it should work ok.

[mzenker]

Thanks for the help, I suspect it will connect if I set everything manually, but that isn't what I really want to do, it would be nice to have it detect any WI-FI network, so I can use it at airports or Starbucks or wherever. I will set it manually just to make sure.

Marlene

[blueflame]

I have an apple Airport, you need to set everything to automatic, it took me hours to figure out how to get the wep encryption, the airport does have increption you need, I cant remember how to fijnd it, but if you call apple, and say you want your wep encryption, they wiil get it set up for you

[mzenker]

Are you saying I need to have WEP Encription enabled on Airport? How can that be? I had to turn it off just to get a Linksys wireless device to work on a PC and had to change the SSID name on Airport to linsys...

There has to be a way for it to detect "ANY" so that I can log onto any 802.11x network that will give me access.

Thanks for your suggestion.

Marlene

[Unregistered]

This is my first post here so I will likely get it wrong ):

I have the Intel/SONY card working with the old graphite Airport station. My hangup was the SSID I used. It was long and had spaces. Reducing it to three letters seemed to fix things.

My Airport is connected to a 3Com router which provides DHCP. I can get the card to work either static or via DHCP.

Now when I go to work it is a different matter. The equipment is Cisco. The hardware address is registered and the servers see the card and give it the OK. I will, however never get an IP in DHCP mode nor will any data transfer if I use a static setup. Changing the energy savings settings makes no difference.

I Soooo need this to work with Cisco. Anyone getting theirs to go?

Thanks,

Stephen

[Unregistered]

Got a Cisco Aironet 350 AP here at work, that everyone uses.

WEP off
SSID is set appropriately

DNS and IP addressing is all done manually.

I can get "Connected" and the guys see my client register (or whatever) with the AP basestation, but I cannot ping my address from my CLIE (via Ping util), nor can I ping the gateway. External hosts cannot ping me either, though they can ping the gateway.

Basically I can get connected, but then I cannot go anywhere.
Our head network admin is going to install the Drivers on his NX tomorrow and borrow my card while he waits for his, so hopefully we can sort this out.

FRUSTRATING!

And yes, I have read every forum hosted here that had anything to do with wireless/WD100/WiFi... grr. And I even read the manual from cover to cover first! grrr.

I'll update if we have any news.

$280 battery-sucking paperweight (Canadian funds)

[UI018397]

I have my WL100 working with a Cisco Aironet 350..

Static key, 128 bit WEP ON
(ie. EAP/LEAP OFF)
Open authentication
SSID set appropriately
DHCP IP and DNS ON.
Power saving OFF

Good luck !

[Unregistered]

Hey, me again - Mr Cisco Aironet Isn't working.


If you recall my problem was that I could connect to the AP, but I could not surf, or ping my IP or ping the gateway or anything IP related.

Well the Aironet 350 works now.
My network savvy co-worker had this to say:

"I had the browser hit a server I was doing a tcpdump on. It was obviously not able to get my server responses, so I figured it must be having difficulty with hearing the packets come back from the access point.

... the PalmOS drivers don't support 'short preamble', which is a bandwidth-saving feature on the access-point."

So I guess he disabled that and now his is working.
(I'm not in the office today to test, but it's the exact same hardware... NX70 + the Sony WiFi card)

If you have an Aironet and you have access to it, look for a setting like he described. If you don't have access, then talk nicely to your admin to have a peek at the settings for you.

Perhaps an updated driver will get around this.
Anyway, this is not something I have confirmed, but this guy knows that the heck he is talking about, so I have faith. :-)

Cheers
C

[captainao]

Not to become Larry's loyal opposition (because he's helped me in the past) but when choosing a browser, it is worth recognizing that the alternatives he recommends both rely on proxy servers to translate web pages into "pda-friendly versions."
While NetFront does occasionally stumble (more for some of us :) ) it does function more in the same way as a traditional browser, which allows use of intranets, etc. which the other do not.

Just my .02

[UI018397]

I am using Cisco Aironet as well, but my Aironet is set to use Short Preamble....
Aironet Extension is also turned on...
Everything works fine. =>

[Unregistered]

Mr Short Preamble Sucks here.

I can confirm, now having tried my WiFi card at the office that it works too. And since my friend the network guru says that the Short Preamble option was the only thing he changed, I have to assume that that was problem.

If I had my own unit, I'd test it to be sure.
But I'm just happy to be online.

thx for the feedback though
cheers
Bassil