Neta 980 Lost its Mind

The IR port appears to be disabled on the Airpanel as well. (Really weird that they put the port there and then don't use it. ) Maybe that cable you have would fit the Airpanel as well since they seem to be different brands of the same device. (The only other option for setting up an ActiveSync partnership seems to be the optional cradle, which I've been looking for without success thus far.)

Say cmonex, I have 3 Viewpad 100s all of which have successfully undergone the firmware upgrade from 3.0 to cenet 4.1. I have not porblem using one as a guinea pig and doing a little 'cooking' with it to see if we can't exploit these units beyond their basic functionality. Sure seems to me we ought to be able to 'add' the missing files that otherwise limit this from being a full blown pda given there are other cenet 4.1 devices that are.

On a different note... still trying to load cisco drivers/utilities for aironet 350 wireless card to the AP100 version 2.3.... given I have no PC sync capability... and have had no luck with a 'back to back' usb cable (this is of a special design which is suppose to allow for data transfer between USB host to USB host but does not have ce drivers), I have extracted the cab files (there are 3) which are for the cisco ce .net 4.1 however I can find no executable file within. It was suggested here earlier that if I could move them to CF I could load them directly on the AP100. Without an obvious executable... can anyone assist in helping me to understand which file would initiate the install?

The cab files break down as follows:

CiscoBackPort.cab
embedded files:
ciscob~1.000
0ndisuio.001
00wzcsvc.002
000eapol.003
0000eap.004
00eaptls.005
0eapchap.006
0wzcsapi.007
schannel.008


CiscoWinCE2002a.cab
embedded files:
ciscow~1.000
ccleanup.001
00000acu.002
000cisco.003
00mic_le.004
00mic_be.005
mfcce300.006
authtype.007
00000cem.008
ciscos~1.009
cliename.010
00000csu.011
datarate.012
0000dhcp.013
infrstru.014
0000leap.014
leaplo~1.016
mixedm~1.017
00psmode.018
0000ssid.019
00000sst.020
sstact~1.021
sstpas~1.022
00txpoe.023
00000wep.024
worldm~1.025
profiles.026
usercr~1.027
00000ocs.028
00000acu.029
wirele~1.030
0authmgr.031
0certmgr.032
00enroll.033
ccleanup.999


CiscoWinCE2002a.cab
embedded files:
ciscow~1.000
ccleanup.001
00000acu.002
000cisco.003
00mic_le.004
00mic_be.005
mfcce300.006
ciscoe~2.007
ciscoe~1.008
csloadxx.009
authtype.010
00000cem.011
ciscos~1.012
cliename.013
00000csu.014
datarate.015
0000dhcp.016
infrstru.017
0000leap.018
leaplo~1.019
mixedm~1.020
00psmode.021
0000ssid.022
00000sst.023
sstact~1.024
sstpas~1.025
00txpoe.026
00000wep.027
worldm~1.028
profiles.029
usercr~1.030
00000ocs.031
00000acu.032
wirele~1.033
0authmgr.034
0certmgr.035
00enroll.036
ccleanup.999

My guess is there is another transalation that goes on in file names during the cisco extraction over just unarchiving the cab files which is why I don't know the 'real' extensions that should go on these files. Again... remember that the cisco install utility checks to see if there is a valid CE device connected before it will extract the files.

Any help here is much appreciated. Also... if someone can give me a name and model number of an actual network card wifi or Ethernet card that works right out of the box (no drivers needing to be loaded) I would appreciate that as well.

Edited by hdokes 2008-12-29 9:38 AM

Try opening the first embedded file in each of the three lists above on the PC using Notepad. That's probably the file that identifies the actual names of each of the other embedded files. Then you can rename each of the other files accordingly, and then copy them onto the Airpanel. (I've done this successfully with lots of CAB files.)

Any Agere-based card should work out of the box, since the Agere driver is in the Airpanel CE 4.1 .net ROM.

Calligrapher might indeed be better than Transcriber. It's based at least partially on Transcriber. It's certainly better than the link I found.

Calligrapher was developed by a company called Phatware. They stopped supporting HPCs with Calligrapher v6.6. The Airpanel 100 has v6.0, so upgrading might be free.

www.phatware.com

Say CE Geek,

You are correct regarding the first file having the names of the remaining files. Would you assume that the first file name (shown in the list above under each cab listing) would end with an .inf extension? I can not identify the name that his file actually is but I am guessing it is "ciscowireless.inf".

Ok... I believe the name of the 1st file should actually be that of the cab file.. which is ciscowince2002a but I still do not know what the extension of the file should be. I assume this is the configuration file for the install which in a windows world would be .inf... not sure what it should be for cenet.

I am assuming that the ACU.exe file is the initial install executable... only because none of the other exe's make sense. What I am getting when I initiate it is "Cannot find 'ACU' (or one of it's components). Make sure the path and filename are correct and that all the required libraries are available."



Edited by hdokes 2008-12-29 7:08 PM

That may be the Pocket PC version of mfcce300.dll, in which case you still need aygshell.dll and doclist.dll. Check the file size of mfcce300.dll - is it 397k (H/PC 2000) or 404k (Pocket PC)?

Edited by CE Geek 2008-12-29 7:26 PM

The initial file (where I extracted the names of the other files from) is 4,305 bytes in size.

The mfcce300.dll file is part of the file list and it's size is 404k.

Here are the exe's associated with the cab "ciscowince2002a.cab"

Name Size
ACU.exe 108,544
Authmgr.exe 45,056
Certmgr.exe 22,016
Enroll.exe 20,992
Wireless login module.exe 25,600

If none of these are the initial 'install' file... then I have no idea what file should be initiated to start the install from the AP100.

I picked the ACU.exe file as it has a cisco wifi logo associated with the file name.

Edited by hdokes 2008-12-29 7:40 PM

Okay, that's the Pocket PC one, so you do need aygshell.dll and doclist.dll. (You can download them from cmonex' site if you don't have them.)

(I think you've chosen the correct executable, BTW.)

Edited by CE Geek 2008-12-29 7:43 PM

Ummmmmmmmmm... I hate to show my ignorance here... tho I probably have over and over again... I heard mention of cmonex' site however.. I have no idea where this site is... can you provide a url?

I assume these two files can be placed on the CF card with the cisco files and the cisco install will see them?

http://www.hpcmonex.net/izemize.htm

Look for links for "arm dlls" and "aygshells." The downloaded files are ZIP files with multiple folders inside. There'll be more than one version of aygshell.dll and doclist.dll in these ZIP files; it's likely that more than one (and perhaps all) the versions of doclist.dll will work, and the versions of aygshell.dll in folders 4, 5, and 15 of the aygshell ZIP package are all very good aygshells that should work with most programs, so try those first to see if the Aironet utility opens with one of them. (And yes, you can place them in the same folder with the Aironet utility program; however, they'll probably all have to be placed in \Windows rather than anywhere else to work properly. In any event, you'll have to copy them there manually since you're bypassing the installer with this method.)

Edited by CE Geek 2008-12-29 8:00 PM

Thanks CE.... give me a few and I'll get them downloaded and give it a shot and report back.

Ok... have gotten a bit further... ACU.exe starts and now provides a different msg.

"Warning: this version of ACU requires driver 2.30.xx or higher to work properly. Current driver version is 0.00.00"

Now the Cisco site indicated these cab files were the drivers AND the client utility... so... I am confused again.

Okay, let's take a step back. Looking at your previous posts, it's not clear to me whether you tried copying each of the CAB files in one piece onto a CF card and then tried to execute the CAB file(s) themselves on the Airpanel (ie, looking for the CAB file on the Airpanel and double-tapping on it to open it there). Have you tried this?

I did try that prior to loading the two files you suggested. I will try that again. Stand by.