Why is it so hard to get wireless internet working on a PDA?

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Milsnips - 17 Feb 2005 12:42 GMT

I have a LOOX 420 PDA and have been trying and trying and trying, and still
cant get it to connect to the internet.. when u have the USB cable plugged
in, it works fine, but over wireless connected to my laptop, it wont have
it?

Please help.
Paul

Reply to this Message

Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices - 17 Feb 2005 14:44 GMT

I have connected my iMate PDA2k very easily to virtually any wireless
network I have found.

Before, I have been using the Socket Cards (CF and later SDIO) in my Dell
and in my iMate2, and it worked as Magic as well.

I don't know the wireless drivers of the Loox 420, but it surely has to do
with user friendliness of the driver in the specific device. Or to the way
you understand it. Please tell us what are the specific problems you are
having and we will try our best to help you.

Signature

********************************************************
Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
Editor-in-Chief
Pocket PC Freak - The Hebrew Pocket PC site
http://www.pocketpcfreak.com
********************************************************

>I have a LOOX 420 PDA and have been trying and trying and trying, and still
>cant get it to connect to the internet.. when u have the USB cable plugged
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Please help.
> Paul

Reply to this Message

Milsnips - 18 Feb 2005 10:25 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

It connects well to my Adhoc laptop connection (peer to peer) and i can ping
the pda no problems.

both have static ip addresses:

PC IP: 11.0.0.50
PDA IP: 11.0.0.51

subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 11.0.0.1

could it be the problem that im using static ip addresses?

thanks,
Paul

>I have connected my iMate PDA2k very easily to virtually any wireless
>network I have found.
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>> Please help.
>> Paul

Reply to this Message

Helio Diamant - MS-MVP/Mobile Devices - 20 Feb 2005 13:58 GMT

It surely is. 99.9% of the wireless networks would use addresses in the
range of 192.168.0.x in the mask 255.255.255.0 .

Using an address of the range 11.x.x.x puts you in a separate network, and
you won't connect.

Signature

> Thanks for your reply.
>
[quoted text clipped - 31 lines]
>>> Please help.
>>> Paul

Reply to this Message

Milsnips - 21 Feb 2005 11:55 GMT

great, thanks for your help. i'll set it to dynamic ip and give it a few
tries this way.

thanks,
Paul

> It surely is. 99.9% of the wireless networks would use addresses in the
> range of 192.168.0.x in the mask 255.255.255.0 .
[quoted text clipped - 37 lines]
>>>> Please help.
>>>> Paul

Reply to this Message

Carlos Alejandro P?rez - 17 Feb 2005 18:28 GMT

Can you connect to your laptop, via Wifi? If so, are you using an access
point or a peer-to-peer connection? If you can give us some more info,
perhaps we can help you better.
Carlos P?rez
MVP

> I have a LOOX 420 PDA and have been trying and trying and trying, and still
> cant get it to connect to the internet.. when u have the USB cable plugged
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Please help.
> Paul

Reply to this Message

Milsnips - 18 Feb 2005 10:23 GMT

I created an Adhoc connection with my laptop and pda, and both gave them
static ip addresses. Pinging the pda works fine, and i can connect from my
PDA app to my laptop SQL database with no problems.

I just cant surf the net with it!

One thing i dont quite understand is the connection settings (Work, My ISP)
i dont know what needs to be set here, maybe this could be the problem?

thanks,
Paul

> Can you connect to your laptop, via Wifi? If so, are you using an access
> point or a peer-to-peer connection? If you can give us some more info,
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>> Please help.
>> Paul

Reply to this Message