Symbol WLAN card connection problems

[rhmorrison]

Actually I can get a proper wireless connection, what I can't do is access the Internet or anything else over the WLAN. I am using an Acer GW-100 Broadband Wireless Gateway that is a DSL router with WLAN. I use the WLAN from my notebook with no problem but with my hp Jornada 568 with Symbol network card although it shows a 5 by 5 connection, i.e. Prima #1 connection I can't seem to surf the web.

Does anyone have any ideas what I might be doing wrong :?:

[Steven Cedrone]

More info needed: Are you using DHCP? Can you PING your gateway? What about DNS settings? Default gateway?

Steve

[rhmorrison]

In any case the control for the gateway router is a web page such as:

http://1.2.3.4:88

and I don't get any response.

[lipinski77]

I have the same card and I have had the same problem with multiple wireless routers. My solution (which may work) was to check the connection setting and changed them all to "Internet Setting" and try to connect again.

My main problem was getting any pages to pop up in PIE or connect with AIM.

Hope that helps. :)

James

[Steven Cedrone]

Use vxUtil (http://www.cam.com/vxutil.html)...

Steve

[Sven Johannsen]

After you get vxUtil (and vxIPconfig from the same site), and figure out if you actually have the right IP #s in all the spots, whether by DHCP or by putting them in yourself.

Here are a couple of thoughts. Do you have WEP running? Are you sure you put the key in correctly? (Bad key will show great signal, which AP and channel, but you won't get any DHCP numbers supplied to the PPC, no Ping works and obviously nothing esle network related)

If the IPs aren't right for your network when you check, I'd first disable WEP to get things set up in the clear. You can turn it back on later.

(incidentally I have a 568 and a symbol and it does work, so hang in there.)

[rhmorrison]

:cry: Well, I downloaded and installed vxUtil and vxIPconfig. I have set the IP address stuff manually and turned off WEP on my access point (an Acer GW-100 Warplink Broadband Router).

The address of the gateway is currently 192.168.0.1

The PPC I have set to 192.168.0.22 and my laptop uses 192.168.0.2
Perfect signal but ping only gets a response from 192.168.0.22, i.e.
he can talk to himself with no problem just not with anyone else!

My problem starts with the Operating Mode for the card.
I can choose between:

Infrastructure
Enhanced Ad-Hoc
Ad-Hoc

The only one that gets a connection (using the right channel) is the
Enhanced Ad-Hoc setting.

DHCP is not activated nor do I have any DNS gateway set.

Help me...

[Janak Parekh]

Hmm, that Enhanced Ad-Hoc is worrisome. A base station is really "Infrastructure".

--janak

[rhmorrison]

:D I was finally able to get it to work using "Infrastructure" and NOW it WORKS! Thank you everyone for the ideas and suggestions. It works very well but really seams to suck the power (this is one of the older cards NOT the new low power one).

[Sven Johannsen]

Good deal. And now you even have some additional useful utilities on your Jornada :) Does your driver software have the power saving settings?

When I bought the Symbol over the Socket over a year ago, when those were the only two Type I cards on the market, I had the impression the support was going to be better. Symbol hasn't done any driver updates in a year though. Socket seems to be actively working their PPC offerings.

[rhmorrison]

I downloaded the newest driver and have:

Driver v3.24
HW v3.0
FW v3.10-01

In the "Infrastructure" mode it has a built-in PING command plus a graph of power, etceter.

Very nice indeed.

Surfing the net from the sofa is really cool, but even cooler is sending / receiveing emails while in the living room or on the balcony.

[Sooner Al]

Surfing the net from the sofa is really cool, but even cooler is sending / receiveing emails while in the living room or on the balcony.

Cool...you want cool...Try MS Portrait then...

http://www.research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/

My brother and I, he is in Florida and I am in Oklahoma, talk wireless iPAQ to wireless iPAQ using Portrait. He has an iPAQ 3650 with a Linksys card of some sort, while I use an iPAQ 3835 with a D-Link DCF-650W card. Audio only is very good over a 56k dial link. Note that the audio is half-duplex however...