Hey
I just got this phone.
Anyways, thought it'd be great to connect to my home internet.
We have an Airport Base Station. It's passworded with WPA Personal.
Anyway, it goes to connect, says I need a network key. I type the password in and it fails to connect. I figure I need to set it to WPA.
I go to configure and then click my router in the list.
In 'General' Tab I've got it as 'connects to the internet'.
In Network key I'm pretty sure i've tried them all. Some settings has the network key grayed out. Other settings I type it in, click ok and it INSTANTLY says the network key isnt correct. Wouldn't it need a moment to verify with the router if I'm typing the right password?????
Anyway I think I've tried all combos. Then when I click my router and hit connect, it says connecting for a moment, then goes back to available.
Any ideas?
I did a hard reset. I havent updated the ROMs or anything yet... would that be wise?
Cheers
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I am wirelessly connected to our BT homehub2 network, but cannot use internet explorer, all the wpa, channel, passkey's etc are the same?
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Last I checked, the angel only supports 802.11B, not G.
No G = no WPA, only WEP.
hmmm
but it has WPA settings in the network key tab?
also it refers to it as 802.11X I think?
ok guys do not confuse encryption with network speed, personally i use in my BA and router with setup WPA PSK (Personal Key) with TKIP encryption, secure and compatible solution
if encrypption is WPA2 the BA will not connect
xplode said:
ok guys do not confuse encryption with network speed, personally i use in my BA and router with setup WPA PSK (Personal Key) with TKIP encryption, secure and compatible solution
if encrypption is WPA2 the BA will not connect
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Shows how long it's been since I updated my angel then, I was not aware that a WPA stack had been added to the available ROM's.
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Hard to believe !
I just got back home and tried to connect my new Blue Angel to my Wifi network and... and... and... it seems that there is no way to connect to an AP not broadcasting the SSID !!!
Can someone confirm this? Why such a restriction? Any workaround (besides broadcasting the SSID) ?
My previous PDA did not have this problem !
Thanks.
You are correct. This does not work with the current driver version (at least the one that shipped with my MDAIII in Germany).
Even if you connect to the AP with the SSID broadcasting and set-up WEP, the link will not be re-established when the SSID broadcast is subsequently turned off on the AP.
I also found that even when SSID BC was on, the MDAIII required frequent resets when turning on Wifi and switching APS. Hopefully they'll supply an updated driver.
BTW: Connecting to non-broadcast SSID does work on an MDAII with a sandisk wifi card using the latest Socket driver (doesn't work with the Sandisk driver).
Cheers,
Martin
Well, it works on my new SPV M2000. My AP has an SSID set, but does not broadcast it. I had to type the correct SSID/WEP key, and it all just worked.
I can connect to my access point, even though it's not broadcasting it's SSID. I think the trick is to name your network the same as the SSID. After turning on WLAN, in the WLAN manager - click tools, then click new connection and name the connection your SSID, and then enter relevant WEP keys, etc.
Be warned that it seems the PDA2K has awful WiFi range, my connection rarely shows over 50%, even in the same room as my access point, and on the next floor of my house, the connection often drops - never had this problem with any laptops or other PPC devices.
@whydidnt and dbarfoot :
Okay, sorry about that. I could not find how to get to the place where you can see the active WLANs APs etc... Seems to work as it used to.
I'll disable again the broadcasting of SSID today to check if it works okay, but I don't expect a big surprise.
I was kind of worried if it really had not been supported properly
Thanks
Hi
I have a wifi AP at home, and one at work, Both use WPA-PSK with mac addy auth. SSID Visible cause sh1te WM2003SE OS cant cope with hidden SSID.
Get a whole load of oddities from the XDA IIs. Both SSID's and keys are listed in the wifi setup on the device. What I would expect is that if I switch the device on when I am within range of the AP @ work, it connects to it no fuss, likewise, when I drive home, switch XDA on it connects, no fuss, unfortunately this is not usually the case. The following are in order of likelyness to occur!
Problem 1
Sometimes I switch it on, and it sits there searching for eons, never finds AP. If I disable and then re-enable wifi on the XDA then it connects.
Problem 2
Sometimes, the XDA will tell me that its connected to my home network when I am at work - it isn't!
Problem 3
Sometimes I switch it on, it connects to the AP, but no net connectivity - looking. Using PPC Ipconfig, I see that device never managed to get an IP addy. Stop, start wifi problem resolves
Problem 3
Occasionally, the PPC forgets the shared secret, and I have to re-input it, start/stop wifi before it will connect to the AP
Problem 4
Sometimes, it just BLUNTLY REFUSES to connect to the AP if I do the above. In this case I try all the above with a soft reset as well. If that fails then I need remove all the wifi AP's, soft reset, wait (ages) for it to see a new AP, enter the PSK then it will connect.
It also struggles to connect to other APs (wifi hotspots). Things work a whole lot better when there is just one AP involved (i,e not work and home).
Prob 4 occurs once/week, prob 1 occurs every day, others somewhere between. All problems are of course COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for a product that has been released to the consumer.
Nigel
Hello Veledron,
I've a similar problem: at our company WLAN is set up to reqire WPA and authentication with user certificates. Since it is not possible to import user certificates in Windows Mobile 2003 SE "out of the box" I found out how to do that - it is described here
http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/crtimprt.html
a little bit difficould procedure, but it worked - I can see my personal company certificate in the private-certificate store of my MDAIII.
The problem is, that I can't get a connection. WLAN-Manager says "connected", but I can't receive an IP-address - and in the logs of our Cisco-APs I can't see anything from my PDA. What also is a little bit strange for me: the MDAIII does not remember the setting "authentication with certificates", it always switches to "authentication using PEAP"...
any idea?
thanks
Gerald
Hi Veledron & gekap
I too have similiar problem with my netgear router at home. It seems that everytime it connect to the network it will just keep scanning eventhough it prompt that it already connected. It been 2 days and still i cannot manage to connect
Hopefully there is a solution to this problem.
Regardz
shark
There is.... Turn off AP, or move device to location where it is out of range, remove all WiFi profiles from device, hard reset, turn on router. wait (ages) for device to realize that there is a wifi ap nearby, enter PSK, all is well.
There seems to be no pattern to the WiFi failures, I have to do the above maybe twice a week to get it to connect. When the device gets itsself into a poor state this is the only way.
You cant delete an active profile, and the profile list only appears when wifi is turned on (stupid!) hence the need to turn off the AP.
Nigel
Hi Guys,
I manage to solve my wifi problem,
i just add the XDA IIs mac address to my netgear router plus assigned a reserve ip address based on it mac address and was able to connect successfully with no problem. Hope this solution helps.
Regardz
Sharkz
Hi,
thanks for the tips, but all of them are not a solution for me. I do not have any problems connecting to WLANs using WEP or to unencrypted WLANs, but i guess that there are problems with WPA in the PDA2K. I think the guys of you who have succussful connected to a WLAN using WPA have done that using WPA-PSK, not WPA with TKIP as encryption-method and PEAP or certificates as authentication method over 802.1x.
In our company TKIP is mandatory, and it is necessary to use certificates for authentication - this can be done with either EAP-TLS (so called "smartcard or certificate" in the setup-menu of the PDA-2k) or using PEAP. I've troubleshooted this a lot, and I can't see any authentication packet coming to our Cisco-APs from the PDA2K using this methods (I've turned on advanced logging on the APs to see any little bit...).
I fear the worst, that the WLAN-driver of the PDA2K does not support TKIP! Of course WPA is supportet from Windows 2003 Mobile SE, but in my opinion that is not enough - the card driver down the OS must also support the whole WPA-Standard, and it seems to me that the PDA2K driver does only support WPA-PSK. I found an article which can be an explanation of the problem:
http://www.socketforum.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2924
So I've 2 questions to you:
.) which driver version is installed on your PDA2Ks? (you can find that in the registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Drivers\Wavedev - I've: Common: 0.04.01, Device: 1.06.01 GER, DriverVersion: 0.08.00, Patch: 1.00)
.) has anyone of you ever connected to a WLAN using WPA (not WPA-PSK!)?
thanks
Gerald
Where the hell is it?
After using the preferred W2003 method of tapping everything in sight in the vain hope that I might stumble across what I'm looking for, I've failed miserably. So, having configured my shiny new router for WPA encryption, how the bl**dy hell do I configure the XDA2s to talk to it via WPA?
crocodile said:
Where the hell is it?
After using the preferred W2003 method of tapping everything in sight in the vain hope that I might stumble across what I'm looking for, I've failed miserably. So, having configured my shiny new router for WPA encryption, how the bl**dy hell do I configure the XDA2s to talk to it via WPA?
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Connect to your shiny new router with your XDA2s. A "window" will popup and ask you for the key.
Assuming that the PPC can use (WPA) Authentication, which I can not prove since I use 64bit (WEP) encryption. If WPA auth. doesn't prompt on your PPC, try using WEP for WiFi security on your shiny new router.
I'm using WPA-PSK with my Linksys WRT54G (Firmware v3.03.6) without problems ..
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BT: 3500 (with patch)
Yes, but is your router shiny?
Try putting the WINS address "192.168.0.1" or whatever address of your router is.
Also some devices would only accept the Hex variety of the key you choose.
Good luck.
I have a similar problem. I have a linksys wireless router set to secure.
My SX66 asks me for the password. When I enter it I get an error message that it is not the correct password.
The SX66 then says it is connected to the network and shows the SSID and other details, but other than this message it doesn't seem to be connected and I cannot connect to the internet.
What am I'm doing wrong?
To get to the options:
1) turn on the wireless
2) wait for it to pop up asking you if your router connects to "work" or the "Internet". I assume you will want to click "work".
3) Open the wireless LAN manager
4) Click the TOOLS menu at the bottom.
5) Choose NETWORK CARDS
6) You should have a "Configure Wireless Networks" window up.
7) Tap your shiny router one time (it should say connected BTW)
Now you should have 3 tabs at the bottom, General - Network Key - 802.1x . Under the Network Key tab you should have 4 options for Authentication - Open, Shared, WPA, WPA-PSK. The data encryption option will depend on which authentication you choose. I beleive you should choose WPA for authentication and WEP for data encryption. Then put in the key. If that does not work, try TKIP for data encryption maybe.
I have not tested out any of this myself yet. I still have an old linksys running 128 bit WEP. I am getting a Sonicwall TZ-170 SP (think that is the model #) and will then try WPA and maybe even see if I can get RADIUS working through the PDA2K.
WiFi Security
Thank you ed207_us for those instructions!!! They helped so much.
For everyone's general consumption, I thought y'all might be interested in WiFi security:
http://windowssecrets.com/comp/050526/#story1
(towards t e bottom of the page -- it's worth looking for)
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/index.php?p=43
I just got my home WiFi network running; this is so cool!
I have a t-mobile Dash. I'm trying to connect to my home router/AP using WPA2-PSK. I've double-checked my network key and other settings, but I can't seem to get it to connect. Here are my settings:
Network name: GTHOME <- matches my router's broadcast SSID
Network type: Internet
Not a hidden network
Not an ad-hoc connection
Authentication: WPA2-PSK
Data encryption: AES
The key is not automatically provided
Network key: (matches my router's key)
Key index: 1
Does not user IEEE 802.1x network access control. (I've tried it both ways, with PEAP
On trying to connect, my Dash give this message:
"Cannot connect to the network. Check your network and service provider settings and try again."
The AP is a Netgear WPN824 v2 with the latest firmware. Any suggestions?
TIA
Try using a 9 letter word for your key.
I had an 8 letter key before. I tried 9 - no luck. What's magic about 9?
Mac Address Filter
skyguy said:
I had an 8 letter key before. I tried 9 - no luck. What's magic about 9?
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Guy, do you have a Mac Adddress Filter area on your router?Open your router so no key is required to make a connection and after you establish a connection use the WEP or WPA2-PSK key option! Can you find your Mac address and your Phone's Ip address on your router. You can find this info on your phone also in Comm Manager> setting> Wifi> Connection Status area. There is a place on your router to put this info, so that the router will know that its ok to connect to this device with this info, I believe its in the advance area on your router and use the 10 key WEP if possible!
Install NetWorkMagic To You System
Go to http://www.networkmagic.com and install the trail version on your PC. Networkmagic will tell you if your system is setup correctly or if their is some kind of problem. Use the network map, this will give you a good ideal of whats going down on your system......! If you cannot see your phone on the network map, then Houston, we got a problem...........!But we will fix it! Happy Thanksgiving!
skyguy said:
I had an 8 letter key before. I tried 9 - no luck. What's magic about 9?
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Yep 8 is secure enough. try again without any caps or numbers. e.g. give aaaaaaaa a try
And see that error you mention, that looks like the one IE gives. What happens when you press connect in the wifi list?
I found that having any character other than a-z, 0-9 would cause the dash to fail to connect even though pc's and laptops had no problems. My initial key contained a "-" and "$"-- it drove me crazy trying to figure out the problem until I realized only the dash couldn't connect.
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Guy, do you have a Mac Adddress Filter area on your router?Open your router so no key is required to make a connection and after you establish a connection use the WEP or WPA2-PSK key option! Can you find your Mac address and your Phone's Ip address on your router. You can find this info on your phone also in Comm Manager> setting> Wifi> Connection Status area. There is a place on your router to put this info, so that the router will know that its ok to connect to this device with this info, I believe its in the advance area on your router and use the 10 key WEP if possible!
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Thanks for the suggestions. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday
I double-checked the MAC address filter - it's turned off.
I was able to connect with Open Authentication and WEP Data encryption, and if I disable security altogether. Neither of these options is satisfactory.
I also tried 'aaaaaaaa' as the key. It doesn't work in either WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK with TKIP or AES encryption.
The warning I get when I press the connect key in the wi-fi list is -
"Cannot connect to the network. Check your network and service provider settings and try again."
Make sure the Key Index on the phone matches the Key Rotation on the router.
sesinger said:
Make sure the Key Index on the phone matches the Key Rotation on the router.
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I don't think I'm using Key Rotation. Isn't that just for WEP? And, only if you have a RADIUS server? I just have a simple home network, nothing fancy.
I have a basic USRobotics router and it supports key rotation for WPA2. I had it set to 0 (meaning off), however there was no equivalent setting on my S621. The S621 could only be set at 1,2,3,or 4. When I set both the S621 and the router to the same number (in my case 4) I was able to connect.
My netgear doesn't have a place to set key rotation. I tried each key order (1 - 4) on the phone - no luck.
I even tried installing the evaluation version of CommView for WiFi (http://www.tamos.com/products/commwifi/) so I could see what each device is doing. But, I don't have a compatible adapter.
Your Router's IP Address Is 192.168.1.1 Not 192.168.0.1
skyguy said:
Thanks for the suggestions. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday
I double-checked the MAC address filter - it's turned off.
I was able to connect with Open Authentication and WEP Data encryption, and if I disable security altogether. Neither of these options is satisfactory.
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For your router with IP address 192.168.1.1 with the WPA encryption, turn on the MAC address Filter and install the phone's MAC address in the router in the appropriate area, save settings (soft reset)! Now your phone will now be able to connect to your network via wifi.........!
Well, it's working now in WPA-PSK(TKIP) mode. Here are the changes I made:
I installed a new battery (my Dash started dying every time I turned on wireless while on the battery).
I removed a network called "Free Public Wireless." The Dash would try to connect to this network when it failed to authenticate on my encrypted network.
I suspect the "Free Public Wireless" network was interfering with the login to my home network. I'm just happy that it's working.
Hi, all,
I have the same problem:-
"Cannot connect tot the network. Check your network and service provider settings and try again."
After some troubleshooting, I found that this problem will go away when I set some IP address in the network adapter.
I have confirmed that my password (network key) is correct and my MAC filter are also correct.
The only changes that I can think of is that I went to US last week and connected using hotels' wireless access. No IP settings were done during the connection.
Please let me know if anyone has any idea on how to solve this problem.
Many thanks in advance.
Joe
I just picked up the G3 and brought it home, and it won't connect to my WiFi connection. I have the right WEP password and everything, but it says "Avoided poor Internet connection" when I try to connect it to my network. The router is 5 feet away in the same room, and I've never had this issue with any other device (Galaxy Nexus, iPhones, laptops).
I went under "Advanced Wi-Fi" settings and made sure that "Avoid poor connections" is UNCHECKED, so it's not that.
Any ideas? I'm really excited to get my phone set up (especially coming from an old Gnex...), but I need WiFi to download all my apps and stuff.
karmapuhlease said:
I just picked up the G3 and brought it home, and it won't connect to my WiFi connection. I have the right WEP password and everything, but it says "Avoided poor Internet connection" when I try to connect it to my network. The router is 5 feet away in the same room, and I've never had this issue with any other device (Galaxy Nexus, iPhones, laptops).
I went under "Advanced Wi-Fi" settings and made sure that "Avoid poor connections" is UNCHECKED, so it's not that.
Any ideas? I'm really excited to get my phone set up (especially coming from an old Gnex...), but I need WiFi to download all my apps and stuff.
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Have you try change your encryption to WPA PSK2 with AES?
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Have you try change your encryption to WPA PSK2 with AES?
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Would that be a change on the router? How exactly would I do that? (I hate networking stuff...)
I have an Actiontec Mi424-WR Rev. E from Verizon FiOS. The label on the side of the router has an ESSID, a WEP Key, WPS Pin, and WAN Mac, but nothing about WPA encryption. However, the "Advanced Security Settings" page on the router settings shows this, so it seems like it can probably handle WPA (but I'm not sure what you mean by the "PSK2 with AES", to be honest).
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Would that be a change on the router? How exactly would I do that? (I hate networking stuff...)
I have an Actiontec Mi424-WR Rev. E from Verizon FiOS. The label on the side of the router has an ESSID, a WEP Key, WPS Pin, and WAN Mac, but nothing about WPA encryption. However, the "Advanced Security Settings" page on the router settings shows this, so it seems like it can probably handle WPA (but I'm not sure what you mean by the "PSK2 with AES", to be honest).
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UPDATE: I figured out how to set it up that way, and got everything to work! Now I just have to switch the other 4 phones, 3 tablets, and 3 laptops in the house over to WPA2...
Thanks!