Lucent Orinoco Wireless and a Ericsson MC16... I need help

Hi there,

I need some help in going wireless with my Ericcson MC16 (same thing as a HP 360LX).
It runs Windows CE 2.0 and I want to use a Lucent Wireless PCMCIA-Card, which did not work out as good as i hoped.
The card is Orinoco Silver, I guess the chipset is Hermes.

Now I installed all Service-Packs (the official Windows CE 2.0 SP 1 and the HPC-Factor Service Pack) and then a driver for my Card. That driver is called Lucent Wave-Lan driver.

The Card is being recognised and the power-LED lights up. tehre is even some flickering going on in the network-indicating-LED, but i can not make any connection to the internet with the Win-CE-Internet-Explorer.

Did I miss out on something very basic?
How can you configure Network-connections in Win-CE 2.0 anyway?

Is there another driver for the card?
The driver featured on this very website is only for 2.11 when it comes to the lucent/agere-cards.

Please help!

yours
gunnar

The lucent driver should have installed a configuration application either on the start menu or in the control panel. I can see drivers in the HCL listed for CE2, are you telling me that they are incorrectly labled?

the config is in control panel for ce 2.0 lucent driver.

Hello,

no, the HCL is correct about this. the driver from the HCL is running (lucent wave-LAN), so everything is labeled correctly.
But there are only four devices listed in the README-file of that driver download under "compatible with ce 2.0". hp 620 and some other.

the other thing is the AGERE-reference driver. that is only for CE 2.11.

My problem is, that although the driver is installed, and the card is responding, there is no icon for "wireless" neither in the control panel or in the icon-tray.

There is a Lucent-WaveLAN-Icon in my control panel, and i can configure network-name and encryption there,
but still, i have no indicator for a working connection.
there must be some tool or some icon that i missed out on,
something that says: "connected to network xxx, connection is excellent (or poor)"
like in any other OS!

still confused

Gunnar

no, that one only puts its stuff in control panel.. i dont remember now if vxutil works on ce 2.0 to give current IP (or the lucent applet gives IP info on ce2.0 too?)

if so please post it for us.

I don't recall seeing anything showing IP info in the WaveLAN Control Panel applet.

Hei!

Your card is working.

I think your problem might be in the SSID and in the encryption key.

Is your app in the Control Panel the WaveLAN?

Hi,

I'm experiencing the same problem on my HP 360LX. My card is a PCMCIA Cisco Aironet 350 series - AIR_PCM352. I have installed the service packs as you have done. I have used all of the drivers and software as recommended by Cisco. But my internet explorer does not respond.

Have you had any luck yet?

Thanks & Best Regards

Clanger

use vxutil to get IP info... iirc it really works.