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AirTimid
01-31-2003, 03:55 PM
Hi, I have a Dlink 660w CF wireless card and i'm having some difficulties setting it up with my Dell Axim. Here's some useful information..

1. I bought a dlink 900+ Access Point to be used in conjunction with the 660w CF card (to surf web). Both had been working flawlessly up until last weekend.

2. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to buy a laptop along with a dlink 650+ wireless PCMIA card. The PCMIA card connected fine with the AP and I was and currently am, able to surf without incident.

3. To recap, I was able to surf the web with my laptop and axim. I was also able to wirelessly activesync the two devices.

4. I tried to connect to the internet the other day with my Axim and I get a "cannot open page" message. The strange thing is that my signal strength was very strong. I dug deeper into my CF card settings and realized I wasn't picking up a valid IP (it's setup to have and IP assigned by a DHCP server). I cannot get a valid IP no matter what I do. I think i've found the problem. The CF card is picking up the correct SSID from the access point, but it is picking up the wrong mac address. It actually thinks the mac address to my PCMIA card is the mac address of the access point!!

I've uninstalled and reinstalled the CF card but I still pick up the wrong mac address. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I looked through the manual for the CF card and it mentions the need to hard reset to completely clear my device of lingering IP/MAC address info. Is there anyway I can get around this because i've finally gotten my PPC to the point i'm happy with it. Any help would be appreciated.
Steven Cedrone
01-31-2003, 04:51 PM
Do you have your WAP set up to do MAC filtering (for security)? Can you disable that and get everything to work again?

Steve
AirTimid
01-31-2003, 05:01 PM
I actually don't have any of the security settings turned on.
Steven Cedrone
01-31-2003, 05:12 PM
Assign a staic IP, Subnet, and gateway...

See if you can surf again...

Steve
johncj
01-31-2003, 05:43 PM
Make sure you didn't change either machine to "802.11 Ad Hoc" from "Infrastructure" mode.
AirTimid
01-31-2003, 08:00 PM
i've tried what was recommended in the last 2 posts and neither helped. I just need a way to tell the CF card that the mac address it thinks is the AP is not actually "it", instead it's the mac address to the PCMIA card. Grr.
Steven Cedrone
01-31-2003, 09:06 PM
Have you changed anything on your Pocket PC from the time it was working until now?

Can you take the card from the Pocket PC and put it in the laptop? If yes, does it work?

Have you done a soft reset?

Have you tried resetting the WAP?

Can you do a backup and then hard reset - just to see if this "fixes" your problem?

Steve

Also: the 660w looks like it is another rebrand of the socket/symbol wireless card. Maybe try the drivers for that???
AirTimid
01-31-2003, 09:15 PM
the only change i've made was updating the firmware to my access point. everything went nutty after that. I may have to reset that back to factory settings and reinstall the previous firmware. this is really odd considering all these components are from the same company. LOL.
Steven Cedrone
01-31-2003, 09:32 PM
the only change i've made was updating the firmware to my access point. everything went nutty after that. I may have to reset that back to factory settings and reinstall the previous firmware. this is really odd considering all these components are from the same company. LOL.

That's a pretty important detail that should have been mentioned in your original post!

Call D-Link, and explain what happened. They have good support, let them take a crack at it...

Steve
FredMurphy
02-01-2003, 02:01 AM
Also: the 660w looks like it is another rebrand of the socket/symbol wireless card. Maybe try the drivers for that???

If your card is similar to the Socket one, I found that switching my DLink 900+ AP to "short preamble" solved a lot of strange intermittent problems with my Socket card, especially DHCP related.

Also, make sure your AP is passing the correct Gateway address to your card. I upgraded my AP firmware to 2.2 and then found that gateway was blank by default.
AirTimid
02-01-2003, 06:16 PM
Thanks for everyones suggestions. I'll try them and let everyone know how things went.
AirTimid
02-03-2003, 03:28 PM
I finally got my CF Wireless card to work. What I did was install the card software from the computer that is directly connected to the AP. I also switched to small preamble and disabled powersaving. The reason I disabled powersaving was because surfing was really slow with it on. Thanks for everyone's input.