Pocket Internet Explorer

[threehorn]

This is my first posting and I hope this makes sense to everyone. I recently purchased a AMBICOM WL1100C-CF wi-fi card for my Ipaq ( currently a 3955) conection is good and can use MSN messenger to chat back and forth with no problems. My problem is that I cannot surf the net either by PIE or by using ftx browser. Have tried changing variouse settings but with no success. I have no idea whats wrong. Can anyone help?

[threehorn]

This is my first posting and I hope this makes sense to everyone. I recently purchased a AMBICOM WL1100C-CF wi-fi card for my Ipaq ( currently a 3955) conection is good and can use MSN messenger to chat back and forth with no problems. My problem is that I cannot surf the net either by PIE or by using ftx browser. Have tried changing variouse settings but with no success. I have no idea whats wrong. Can anyone help?

[JustinGTP]

Do you have your PC to share the internet connection with the network? Depends if you have DSL or Modem.

[threehorn]

I am connected with a cable modem. I have a desktop pc hard wired in and do use a laptop connected wirelessly from time to time.

[Janak Parekh]

Well, since you have MSNM on the Pocket PC working, it's not a hardware (or WLAN) problem. Sounds like a Connection Manager issue. Make sure it's set so that your network card connects to "The Internet", and see if that helps.

--janak

[threehorn]

Under connections network card is set to "The Internet" is there some other settings that I may have that are wrong or something else to try?

[Kati Compton]

This might be a red herring, but did it work when the device was in the cradle (ie, w/o the wireless card)?

[Sven]

My gut feel is that it is a DNS problem. That is the system that translates URLs into IP addresses. You must have a valid DNS Server address for the PPC. Normally that is provided by whatever is providing the PPC IP address, and that is done automatically via DHCP, by the router/Access Point. A way to tell what addresses are valid is to run ipconfig /all from the command prompt on your desktop. On the PPC similar info can be had be using vxUtil or vxIPConfig, both free from www.cam.com.

I haven't specifically tried it, but I would not be surprised if MSNM worked without a DNS entry, since it is a single use, proprietary program that may not require a lookup to find MSN IM servers. Regular sites, though definately need a way to look up the address from the URL. Another way to implicate DNS problems is to try going to a site by IP. Try http://207.218.248.21/ in the address window. If it gets there it is a DNS resolution problem.

[threehorn]

Don't work in the craddle either. Tried using IP addresses and still dows not take me anywhere. Its like it isn't even trying to connect to something.

[Mark_Venture]

Originally Posted by threehorn

Don't work in the craddle either. Tried using IP addresses and still dows not take me anywhere. Its like it isn't even trying to connect to something.

I had similar problems when I first set mine up. What I found posted that worked for me was instead of setting the iPAQ to "connects to Internet," set it as "connect to WORK" and edit WORK's settings to uncheck uses proxy server.

[theon]

Maybe this might help if you haven't solved your problem already?

http://www.pc-counselor.com/ad-hoc.htm