HP jornada 720 & Nokia d211

I just got a Jornada 720 and 2 Nokia D211 wlan cards. I was able to install it. Jornada recognise them. I set a no password Wi-Fi connection (for testing purpose) but I didn’t find any way to let the card sees the network. The network is visible. Please help me if you can.

Make sure that your network is on 2.4 GHz?
Also, it seems like my (different, but old as well) adapter will only work on channels 1-11.

Install VxUtil and make sure that the device is getting an IP address. Windows CE is notorious for just not playing nicely with DHCP servers. If it isn't, manually address it.

Yes, the network is 2,4 and i forced on both devices to work on channel 1.
Thanks for your reply and help!

Edited by Albc 2021-09-17 10:32 AM

Please C:Amie, can you help me?

I was able to:
1) connect jornada via usb in activesync
2) use the Nokia d211 card to successfully activate a GPRS connection using a SIM card and being able to surf on the net

But:
Still not able to connect the Nokia d211 via Wi-Fi. For this purpose i created a Wi-Fi hotspots on my samsung cellular, at 2.4ghz, password free (for testing purposes). I created an ad hoc connection on the Nokia d2111 manager window (“select connection” field). I am using vxUtil, as you suggested, to get the IP. In functions menu —> info —> i get the current IP 10.16.153.213. I try to ping and seems to get 5 essays.
Still not able to connect to the Wi-Fi. What else should I do? I tried to search on the forum with no success.

Many thanks in advance
Alberto

Edited by Albc 2021-09-18 1:40 PM

Alberto,

Is it possible for you to dumb down your router's security to 128 WEP (and make certain you have the 128 WEP patch installed on the J720)? That way, you can see if the problem is with the hot spot.

Welcome here,
Jake

First of all, thanks Jake.

Unfortunately not. I am using a Android Samsung Galaxy A20 as Wi-Fi hotspot. I can just settle “no password” and “WPAPSK”. So i go for not protected. I set it at 2.4ghz. Maybe the problem could be the Wi-Fi of this smartphone is 802.11 b/g. As far as i read Nokia D211 doesn’t like b/g but works with just b? I didn’t find a way to force into B.

But: at least GPRS works! So I could surf on the Web!

Next step: gmail using nPOPuK… more troubles to come!

Edited by Albc 2021-09-18 2:57 PM

As you are getting an IP address, are you able to ping the default gateway?
If you are connecting to an Android AP sharing a hot spot, you should be using infrastructure mode, not Ad hoc. Ad hoc is for non-routed communication. Your Android device is providing routing services to the Internet, so you should use infrastructure mode.

Many thanks c:amie

I get a pin and I get 5/5 success in ping using vxutil.
If I try to switch to “infrastructure”, I get this message: “the new settings will become effective for the next time the card is used. For the changes to take effect, remove and re-insert the card or suspend and resume the device”.
Of course I did it several time but always get this message

Edited by Albc 2021-09-18 9:19 PM

We have a note in the HCL against this for CE 3.00 which says "Report from SIMPad SL4 user that while the mobile data connection works, the CE 3.0 ROM is unable to establish a WiFi connection". It could be the case that you are bumping into the same issue. There are also reported successes and failures from users of the 720 with it, which might suggest a split between GPRS and WiFi user reports.

I don't have any direct experience with the card. What chipset is it?

From Wikipedia

CPU: Texas Instruments 4370841 / 4370815 (SRAM)

Thanks!
Then i would consider satisfied since I can surf using GPRS!

What is a Wi-Fi pcmcia who would work with jornada? Linksys?
Thanks !

Yikes, I've never heard of a chipset driver for that one on CE!

In your experience, what is a working Wi-Fi PCMCIA card for HP Jornada 720?
Even Nokia D211 is shown as compatible with the 720 but unfortunately I wasn’t able.
What about a Linksys WPC11 Instant Wireless network PC card?
Many thanks!

It has been given compatibility because the GPRS works, that or there is a fix lost here on the forums somewhere.

Any Prism 2.5 chip should work just fine in WEP or Open mode.

Many thanks!