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Marts - 20 Dec 2009 02:09 GMT

Recently something happened to my HP iPaq 112 PDA. Most of the applications
became corrupted. I don't know what caused it. Virus?

Whatever, the only way that I could rectify it was to do a hard factory reset
which required me to hold in a number of buttons at once.

Anyway, since then I have been unable to get it to connect to my home wifi
network.

Settings are correct. Using correct WPA-PSK encryption, correct passcode and the
like. But while it sees the network it won't connect.

The most frustrating thing is that it doesn't tell me what the problem is.

I thought that it might have been the passcode. So I double checked that on the
wireless router and on the PDA.

I then tried something - I entered the incorrect passcode. Still got the same
vague error message. So, if it was the password I'd have thought that I'd get a
specific message saying so, but I didn't.

Any suggestions what to check?

I have a couple of apps that need an internet connection to update their
databases. I can do it while connected and through ActiveSync. But not
wirelessly.

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ArchiPit - 25 Dec 2009 10:18 GMT

Rispondo qui sotto a Marts che ha scritto:

> Recently something happened to my HP iPaq 112 PDA. Most of the applications
> became corrupted. I don't know what caused it. Virus?
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> databases. I can do it while connected and through ActiveSync. But not
> wirelessly.

You must check first of all if the router assigns the right IP address
to your pda: it maybe that before hard reset the IP was fixed AND the
router has the instruction to pass only that address, while now the pda
has no more that fixed ip.

Then you can try to ping the pc from pda and viceversa.
You can try with VxUtils or with any other ping program for mobiles.

You can also backup the router settings (for a possible recovery after
some test) and resett ALL all the wifi restrinctions:

1-trasmission of SSID
2-without any encryption
3-without any mac list restriction (Access list)
4-using DHCP on both pc and pda

ArchiPit

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Marts - 26 Dec 2009 08:01 GMT

ArchiPit wrote...

> You must check first of all if the router assigns the right IP address
> to your pda: it maybe that before hard reset the IP was fixed AND the
> router has the instruction to pass only that address, while now the pda
> has no more that fixed ip.

That hasn't changed. I am using the same IP address as before (192.168.1.112).

> Then you can try to ping the pc from pda and viceversa.
> You can try with VxUtils or with any other ping program for mobiles.

If I cannot connect to the network how can one of these apps work?

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Todd Allcock - 27 Dec 2009 20:32 GMT

> ArchiPit wrote...
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> If I cannot connect to the network how can one of these apps work?

Have you deleted the WiFi network profile and tried connecting from
scratch again?

If that doesn't help, as Arch said, you probably need to find out where
the real stumbling block is by temporarily lightening up on security.
Roll back to WEP, for example, and see if you can connect. If not, try
no encryption at all. Check for MAC filtering, etc.

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