Monday, August 19, 2002
Frustrated, beyond furious
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "THOUGHT" @ 12:22 AM
I have had a terrible weekend, and the beginning of this week does not look any better. Here are some fragments:
I have tried getting a WiFi network up and running at home. I bought a D-Link DI-804 router and got that working. Then starts Nightmare: setting up the Symbol Access Point 4121-1050-EU (AP) and getting it to communicate with my HP Jornada 565 and Socket WiFi Compact Flash card. Before I go on, let me issue a severe warning. Do not, I repeat, do not say setting up a WiFi network is easy. That would make me explode...
I connect the AP to the router. It gets an IP. I can ping it. I can configure it both using Telnet and the Web UI. I set the ESSID on both AP and Pocket PC , I choose "Infrastructure" as operating mode. I turn off WEP, I enable "Accept Broadcast ESSID", I try both enabling DHCP on AP and Pocket PC as well as disabling and setting static IPs. I soft reset a gazillion times. After a while the AP does not initialize after a reset. I hard reset the AP by shorting serial port pin 2 and 3, it comes back. I hard reset my Pocket PC (!), install Socket drivers. STILL NO CONNECTION! I am not sure which will go out the window first: the Symbol AP, the HP Pocket PC or Socket's CF card.
I've been working, both professionally and privately, with Pocket PCs the last four years. My computer experience goes 20 years back. I have got WiFi networks up and running before. If I can't get this working, who will!? Well, OK! I know one: Chris De Herrera of CEWindows.NET. If it wasn't for his assistance this weekend, I'd be hospitalized. Chris has given scores of valid input and things to try. He is one of the most helpful and patient guys I know.
(Now. Feel better. Pocket PC Thoughts is the best shrink there is!)
I have tried getting a WiFi network up and running at home. I bought a D-Link DI-804 router and got that working. Then starts Nightmare: setting up the Symbol Access Point 4121-1050-EU (AP) and getting it to communicate with my HP Jornada 565 and Socket WiFi Compact Flash card. Before I go on, let me issue a severe warning. Do not, I repeat, do not say setting up a WiFi network is easy. That would make me explode...
I connect the AP to the router. It gets an IP. I can ping it. I can configure it both using Telnet and the Web UI. I set the ESSID on both AP and Pocket PC , I choose "Infrastructure" as operating mode. I turn off WEP, I enable "Accept Broadcast ESSID", I try both enabling DHCP on AP and Pocket PC as well as disabling and setting static IPs. I soft reset a gazillion times. After a while the AP does not initialize after a reset. I hard reset the AP by shorting serial port pin 2 and 3, it comes back. I hard reset my Pocket PC (!), install Socket drivers. STILL NO CONNECTION! I am not sure which will go out the window first: the Symbol AP, the HP Pocket PC or Socket's CF card.
I've been working, both professionally and privately, with Pocket PCs the last four years. My computer experience goes 20 years back. I have got WiFi networks up and running before. If I can't get this working, who will!? Well, OK! I know one: Chris De Herrera of CEWindows.NET. If it wasn't for his assistance this weekend, I'd be hospitalized. Chris has given scores of valid input and things to try. He is one of the most helpful and patient guys I know.
(Now. Feel better. Pocket PC Thoughts is the best shrink there is!)
