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Bill Steiner - 26 Jul 2008 19:48 GMT

I have an AT&T Tilt (HTC 8925) and have been playing with it which has
resulted in some problems that I could use some help on. I use the phone on
my home Wi-Fi network and plan to use in when traveling on open Wi-Fi
networks. While looking around, I opened all of the adapters listed in
Connections/Wi-Fi area. Some were set to DHCP while one or maybe two were
set to static addresses but had no address in them so I was forced to either
set the adapter to DHCP or assign a static address. I set them to DHCP and
now when I attach the Tilt to my PC using the USB cable to use ActiveSync I
get this error message: "Cannot obtain server-assigned IP address. Try again
later or enter an IP address in network settings."

Can anyone tell me which adapter is issuing that error message? Does anyone
have a Tilt; maybe you could post the default settings for each of the
adapters? Here is a list of the adapters:

L2TP NDISWAN Miniport

PPTP NDISWAN Miniport

Virtual Ethernet Intermediate Miniport

Remote-NDISWAN Miniport

AsyncMac NDISWAN Miniport

NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Driver

IEEE 802.11b/g Compatible Wi-Fi Adapter

Bluetooth PAN Driver

Thanks

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Todd Allcock - 28 Jul 2008 02:57 GMT

> I have an AT&T Tilt (HTC 8925) and have been playing with it which has
> resulted in some problems that I could use some help on. I use the phone
> on
> my home Wi-Fi network and plan to use in when traveling on open Wi-Fi
> networks. While looking around, I opened all of the adapters listed in
> Connections/Wi-Fi area.

That was your first mistake! ;-)

While they're all listed in the WiFi settings, most have nothing to do with
WiFi.

> Some were set to DHCP while one or maybe two were
> set to static addresses but had no address in them so I was forced to
> either
> set the adapter to DHCP or assign a static address.

Actually you should've just hit "cancel" to back out of them without changes.

> I set them to DHCP and
> now when I attach the Tilt to my PC using the USB cable to use ActiveSync
> I get this error message: "Cannot obtain server-assigned IP address.
> Try again later or enter an IP address in network settings."
>
> Can anyone tell me which adapter is issuing that error message?

I suspect it's the "Remote NDIS adapter..."- that's the Activesync USB
connection.

> Does anyone
> have a Tilt; maybe you could post the default settings for each of the
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>
> IEEE 802.11b/g Compatible Wi-Fi Adapter

All of the above had "Use server-assigned addresses" checked on my Tilt.

> Bluetooth PAN Driver

This one had "Use specific IP address" of 192.168.0.1 and subnet of
255.255.255.0

> Remote-NDISWAN Miniport

This one had "Use specific IP address" with a blank IP and a subnet of
255.255.255.0
I doubt you'll be allowed to blank an IP and save it without an error.
Perhaps entering 0.0.0.0 might work?

Alternatively, you could uncheck the "Enable Advanced Network
Functionality" box in the USB-to-PC applet which should disable the RNDIS
adapter during USB sync and bypass the error.

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Bill Steiner - 28 Jul 2008 17:17 GMT

Thanks for the advice, Remote-NDISWAN Miniport was the problem and I was
able to solve it by doing a "hard" reset. Won't do that again.

Thanks again.

>> I have an AT&T Tilt (HTC 8925) and have been playing with it which has
>> resulted in some problems that I could use some help on. I use the phone
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> Functionality" box in the USB-to-PC applet which should disable the RNDIS
> adapter during USB sync and bypass the error.

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