axim x50 that doesn't like wireless

jesse13579 · 04-08-05, 09:21 AM

Ok, so I work at a school that it testing the axim x50s. We have a wireless set up and have been trying to get the axims to go wireless with no success. We went into the wlan utility and turned the wlan on and disabled the power saver mode. In config of that page we are getting good signal quality. Packets are being transmitted. In the setting tab of the wlan page we set the network card to connect to work (we did both work and internet) through the dell axim x50 wlan wireless adapter. We set up a specific ip address (we did both server-assigned and static ips). The only thing we didn't set up is the WINS. We weren’t really sure what that was. After doing that we can see the network (exchanging packets), but we can't get on the network. Then we went in and enabled odyssey client. It saw the network and had packets going in and out. Still no internet. Then we went into connections, went into advanced tab and chose select networks. We set both of the pull downs to My Work Network. Then we edited them both and went to the proxy settings and chose the box that says "This network connects to the internet". We did that for both. Still no internet. We called Dell and they tried to update the bios but it was the most current. We did a soft reset, which didn't help. Next we did a hard reset and set everything back up again. That didn't work either. I'm looking for any help. When we are using avantgo we can get on the internet. We just can't get to it when we are wireless. I would appreciate any help. We are stuck and if we can't figure it out we'll have to send them back and try something else.

Thanks

beetle · 04-08-05, 10:34 AM

Ok, I just have mine working. Not sure if this is going to help:
go to Systems->connection->network cards, tab on the wi-fi network you tried to connect, make sure the wi-fi network is set to " my work" as well instead of "the internet".
Hope that helps.

jesse13579 · 04-08-05, 11:09 AM

I tried that and still no internet. I've done about all I know to do. I even called dell and they had no clue. After a 45 min conference call they gave up. They wanted to send out replacements but I can't see why both of them would be acting this way. I just got them to send out one. It'll be there today, but I don't think it's going to work either.

ikehiker · 04-08-05, 07:14 PM

Did you disable powersave in the WLAN utility? Are you running any security on the WiFi network? If so, you should try disabling it and see if you can connect. Then add it back one at a time. As an alternative, you might try resetting the router to see if you can connect and then add back a specific SSID, MAC filtering, etc.

See the WiFi Guide linked from my signature for some more possibilities.

jesse13579 · 04-13-05, 08:57 AM

I don't know if this will help anyone out but I figured out what the problem was. Fist I cleared out all of the assigned ip addresses. I set it up so that it would grab an ip address from the server (the assigned one shouldn't have been a problem). Then I disabled odyssey and then I turned off wlan. After that I did a soft reboot and turned the axim on. When I turned it on I enabled WLAN and then enabled odyssey. The first few times I did this it grabbed a hex address. I cleared that and started again. Finally it grabbed an ip address that was usable. I had to go in and set the ip address so that they wouldn't go through our sonic wall. After that I check all of the settings and when online. I used the wxutility to ping and every thing checks out. It's just strange that it would work with a static address. I hope this helps someone else.