Okay, I had some more ideas, before you try the more complicated one, try these first:
Go
here [basically an old website of HPC Downloads/Hacking] from one of our best HPC:Factor users @cmonex
and try [Under Heading "apps for arm cpu"]
"pocketwinc
(free version only - the nicest wifi scanner for hpc2000
)
OR
pocketwarrior
(free wifi scanner
)" and see if those first work with either the Intel or PRISM drivers to allow you to scan for networks
And you are correct, the best way to diagnose/test different driver versions is hard resetting in between
(obviously that does erase everything though
)
If none of that works, try this:
Bear with me, I found a thread that references this problem, but the instructions can be a little confusing but it seems like they got it to work. I'll add the source, and the quote with directions, then I'll explain the directions:
https://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=6428&start=16
cmdrkeen - 2006-10-23 1:43 PM
OK guys, I got it to work. The drivers from www.wince-devel.org didn't work exactly the best, though they did recognize the card better than the stock Intel drivers. The drivers I got from cmonex worked though the GUI was still formatted for PPC screen. The best drivers with the best software have been from Symbol. It seems that the software is almost identical to the Intel drivers but it recognizes that the card is CF and loads the firmware and such. So that has been taken care of. The problem I run into now (which can be easily resolved) is that the card has an excruciatingly short range ~7 feet with a Cisco Aironet AP.
Steps to get the card to work:
1. Copy dll files to \Windows directory (aygshell.dll, doclist.dll, gx.dll, mfcce300.dll, cewdm.dll, netwlan.dll, trans.dll)
2. Download and install the Symbol Spectrum 24 drivers ftp://symstore.longisland.com/Symstore/exe/downloads/NetworkerSetupHPC2000a.exe
3. Enjoy!
Don't know if all the dll files are required but I know that after copying them all over and installing the Symbol software that it worked, despite the short range of the card. Thanks guys for the help and I hope that anyone else naive enough to purchase this card will find their answers faster than I did.
EDIT: Install the Intel drivers before the Symbol drivers. It will complain about it not being the right OS but continue. Otherwise, the Symbol software will start and immediately stop. ALL the dll files are necessary and I can zip them for easy download. Shortly after I will upload my findings to the HCL.
For step 1: the aygshell.dll, doclist.dll, mfcce300.dll can be found from
this page under "
arm dlls"; gapi
(or gx.dll
) can be either downloaded in dll from from that same website
hereor from
GAPI for HPCs. I believe cedwm, netwlan, and trans dlls come from the Intel driver package that you already know about
So basically step 1: download those dlls
Step 2, install Intel Drivers
Step 3, install Symbol Drivers over the Intel drivers from
here - use "NetworkerSetupHPC2000a.exe" or "inflated" [inflated is just basically cab installer, make sure you use the HPC2000.ARM build]
Edited by torch 2024-03-22 9:55 PM
Anyway, appears the Intel card is not prism based...