dekeman18

I have a Dell Axim X3i. I set it up for my wi-fi network but it will not see it. It does not show that it is online. I have a USR8054 router and WEP security. I have tried soft reseting the router with no luck. At one point after I soft reseted the router my pocket pc saw the network and I was connected to it for a minute. My router does have a problem with dchp. dchp is enabled but on my computers I have to have a manual ip address. I also have a sdio wifi card, when I installed that on the pocket pc it found my network and when I tried to connect to it, it would say connecting then after like 15 seconds it would just say avalable. I need to get the wi-fi working by July 26th. I have no clue what is wrong with it. When I was connected with the internal wifi card I had a manual ip address set. I used to have a hp ipaq rx1950 with built in wifi. I could get that to connect just fine. I just got this pocket pc today and I can't get it to conne


I can get it to connect with the sdio wifi card. But the internal wi-fi card can't even see the network! Please Help. I need to get the internal wi-fi card working so I can use my 2GB sd card.

ikehiker

Assuming the WiFi works on the X3i (which you could check by going to a public hotspot), it's robably a setting on the router that is causing the problem.

Make sure the router is set on mixed mode (B+G) or B only;
Set it to broadcast the SSID;
If MAC filtering is enabled, make sure you've entered the X3i's MAC address correctly (these are hexadecimal, so if you have something that looks like 0 and 1, these are the numbers zero and one, not the letters O and l);
Try disabling WEP temporarily. If it works while disabled, re-enable and make sure you are entering the key properly (same facts apply as for MAC address. You do need to enter it in hex format - 10 or 26 characters, not a passphrase);

I generally figure there is a major problem with the settings if DHCP does not work and it really complicates your life if you want to ever use the PPC at hotspots since it s a real PITA to switch from static to dynamic IPs on PPCs.

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