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Socket LPE Ethernet PCMCIA card - no DNS

nicmalone Page Icon Posted 2016-08-04 1:49 PM
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Hi all

I have a Socket LP Ethernet PCMCIA card in my Jornada 720. The J70 recognises the card and brings up the Socket IP info window when it is inserted. It says I have an IP address but the DNS and secondary DNS fields are blank and IE complain about no DNS if I try and web browse.

If I manually add a DNS via the J720's Network applet in Settings, remove the card, soft reset.....still no DNS reported in the Socket IP info window. Weirdly, if I check the Cisco adapter properties in the J720's Network settings, it also lacks DNS entries but my Aironet 350 WiFi card works just fine.

Socket LPE is widely reported to just work 'plug 'n play', so what am I doing wrong?

Nic
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2016-08-04 11:19 PM
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What did you type in as your DNS IP address? Your local router or like Google DNS (8.8.8.8) or other?

Edited by stingraze 2016-08-04 11:20 PM
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nicmalone Page Icon Posted 2016-08-05 11:22 AM
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I tried both Google DNS 8.8.8.8 (secondary 8.8.4.4). Tried my router's too. Neither worked.
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2016-08-05 11:47 AM
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Are there LEDs on your Ethernet card?

If so, are they blinking?
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2016-08-06 1:02 AM
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I tell you, on my LP/E cards I just plugged it in...it automatically used the NDis drivers and connected. Did you try it on any other HPC? Can you verify the card is functional?
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Alt Bass Page Icon Posted 2016-08-07 11:19 AM
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Can you ping local or remote hosts at all? Your gateway, for example.
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Alt Bass Page Icon Posted 2016-08-07 11:21 AM
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Unfortunately I cannot remember any good pinging tool.
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Alt Bass Page Icon Posted 2016-08-07 11:23 AM
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Try this address in your Jornada's browser: http://74.125.232.192 - this is Google.
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nicmalone Page Icon Posted 2016-08-07 11:09 PM
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Well I figured this out. The Socket card I have did not come with the original dongle. I know some of these things are proprietary but for £5 on eBay, I thought I'd take a chance. I connected the card to a GlobalVillage dongle I already have (never got that ethernet card to work with anything!) with the imprinted arrow on the dongle facing up - the obvious orientation, right? Correct for the original GlobalVillage card but it turns out it should be the other way around for the Socket LPE card. The little proprietary crenellations in the card's connector port do not 100% match those on the dongle but are close enough to allow insertion.

On the J720, I can now surf the net plug 'n' play on a wired network (rather than a bridged WEP network, the security of which I am a little concerned about).

Cheers for the help!
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