> Anyone upgrade a viewsonic v35 to Mobile 2003 and try the sdio wifi card?
I own a V37 and the Socket SDIO WiFi card, and a few days ago took the
plunge for WM2003. I have to say that I have had some problems. I should
mention that I used the WiFi card for only about 10 days pn PPC 2003
before I upgraded to WM2003, so I am not certain that I would not have run
into these issues if I has used it with Pocket PC 2002 long enough.
Anyway, here are the issues I've run into:
1.- Unable to see wireless card settings. Theoretically, if you go to
Start->Connections->Connections (Icon), I should be able to add a new
network card. Well the option is not there. I can add a new modem
connection, a new VPN server conection, and set up a proxy server, but
cannot access any NIC parameters. The WM2003 help claims that it should be
there.
1a. - Also, clikcing on the Advanced tab, and then pressing the Network
card button should take me to a two-tab dlg box that allows me to see the
available network information, and the network cards connect-to settings
(choices are 'Work' and 'Internet'). The available network tab may or may
not show up - and I haven't been able to determine under what conditions
it shows up. This is where you would add by hand a wireless network SSID,
WEP, and other parameters. It also does not allow you to pick FAVORITE
NETWORKS, which you could do with 2002. Last night I was horrendously
frustrated because my PDA was connecting to my neighbor's network and not
mine. There was nothing I could do about it since it was looking for any
connection even though I did not set to look for 'any'. Also, I could not
get to the available-network page, where I could have explcitely disabled
'any network'. and seen if my network was available. ARGH!
1b. - When I finally decided to give up trying to connect to my own
network, I decided to leech my neighbor's. Well, the connect-to setting
for the card was set to 'Work', and no matter how many times I switched to
'Internet', it kept coming back to 'Work'. So, there I was unable to do
anything about connectivity. I was forced to cold-boot my PDA, and I am
now reinstalling sw, and personalizing it again. Not good, even though the
problems seem to have gone away. I was never forced to do this using
pocketpc 2002. BTW, this is the second time I have been forced to do this
in the last couple of days. Not a good omen.
I would say I have gained very little by moving to WM2003 (Just the
dumbing down of the network setup, which, as far as I can see, has broken
some fetures to the point pf ptentially making them usless.) So, my advice
to anyone would be to stick to PPC2002 unless you *need* a piece of sw
that only runs on WM2003.
Maybe things will start working now; baybe this was the last cold boot.
Somehoiw, I really doubt it. If it happend to me again within the next
week or so, I am planning to return WM2003 to Viewsonic and hopefully go
back to my oh-so-missed handy-dandy, trusty-rusty, PPC2002.