No network card present

Doogie · 05-05-05, 01:17 PM

Ok,

I'm typically a patient person, but this is starting to get to me. Yesterday my Axim x50v worked fine connecting to our office network. Today no way in he$$ can I make it work. It shows connected, the little arrows are moving around at the top, but whenever I go to load a webpage I get the Cannot connect no modem or network card present.

The WLAN Utility sees the network, just will not connect.

I recently upgraded to the newest BT stack 1.6 which I think was a big mistake. It seems to take up a lot more memory and I can't seem to be able to move the Dll's. Also I am running at 5.8mb used memory with A03 firmware.

I'm thinking another hard reset might be in order. :realmad: :realmad:

Don't Panic! · 05-05-05, 02:11 PM

I don't now much about WiFi but did you try disabling the Power save mode on your device?

Doogie · 05-05-05, 04:47 PM

Dell's sending me a new one. They agreed it was a problem with the Network card in it.

I ended up talking to two support reps to get this resolved and I asked them about the squishy screen; the first rep said that it was normal, the second rep said it was not.

Don't Panic! · 05-05-05, 08:11 PM

I didn't know you had a squishy screen. Had you told me that I would have said send it back.

I don't know why it works, but disabling Power save mode prevents lots of problems. Since I found that advice here I've had no problems with the WiFi network I connect to.

05-05-05, 08:20 PM

You did try to soft reset, and disable and re-enable the wifi right? I have gotten this a few times and it always clears up after either one of those.

Doogie · 05-05-05, 08:56 PM

I tried everything under the sun, including 3 hard resets. The problem is that it would see the network; but never really connect to it. For example it would show in WLAN that it was connected, however it would never accept an IP addy from the server. Even when I hard coded one in, I still kept getting the error "no network card present". It seemed to recognize the network existed, but could never negotiate to fully connect.

As for the squishy screen, it wasn't a big annoyance for me as everything else seemed to work great.