Hi,
I bought a Netgear FA411 16 bit LAN adapter on a car boot sale and it looked like there are still plenty of these cards around. I thought I give it a try it might work or not but the problem is the answer ins't as binary as I would have expected it to be. If it would work, fine. If it doesn't work, fine as well but now I am stuck in the middle with a nearly working LAN adapter and it still botheres me, find it difficult to do anything else in the household, find it hard to get to sleep, things like that...
What is not working:
(1
) J720 can't be pinged.
(2
) Cant establish a TCP connection to another host
(applications are timing out
).
(3
) DHCP is not working.
So what is working:
(1
) When I plug the card in the lights are flashing up.
(2
) I can assign a static IP address
(3
) When trying to connect to abother host
(TCP
) I get the following:
The J720 is sending out ARP request, arping for the MAC of the host to connect to. Within the ARP request I can see the J720's IP address
(the one I assigned
).
The target host is responding with an ARP reply and the correcrt MAC.
Then nothing happens.
I would expect an TCP packet send to the host to establish a connection, but nothing.
So it works all the way down the OSI layer from the applicationt to the IP stack, then Layer 2 -> ARP request on the wire. Why isn't it working all the way back up to the IP stack to send the initial TCP-SYN packet?
Just tell me the adapter will never work on the J720 and I am happy with it.
Many thanks for looking into this,
Dennis
Device: HP Jornada 720
Hardware: Netgear FA411 PCMCIA LAN adapter 16 bit
OS: Windows CE 3.00 Handheld PC 2000