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Security and Networking / WEP 128b was working, now not
« on: November 15, 2004, 02:08:30 pm »
Unfortunately last night I lost my patience with the pda and took the brute force approach resetting the pda back to factory defaults and eventually got networking working again.
After formating, created a wireless config using networking wizard; pda still couldn't connect. Turned off all WEP on the linksys (again), deleted and re-created pda config, power-cycled it a few times, still no connect. I was loosing my mind at this point.
Was about to give up when I tried forcing different channels on the linksys and switching from infrastructure mode to ad-hoc on the pda and back a few times. All of a sudden the pda connected. That connect icon at least stopped blinking the world icon and gave me the blue/green card icon which turned red eventually with a dialog box indicating I had to recheck my settings. They were fine and I'm just blaming my linksys box at this point.
Why this started working makes no sense to me other than the pda got stuck on a channel for transmit that was not the same as my linksys. Or I had some weird interference from another AP in the neighborhood. Another node near me had a similar SSID name as me but all in lower case, mine capitalized the first letter (Sonoma vs. sonoma). So I changed my SSID to something different. Maybe my PDA was listening to my linksys, but trying to connect to my neighbors? Split tx/rx channels?
I also had to first ping from the pda to the linksys before I could finally use the net. Seems the pda was not performing an ARP when connecting or my linksys box is just flakey. I'm just glad its back working again.
WEP 128b mode is working again and the pda is working as it was before my war-walk or should I call it the pda-death-walk. Totally weird. Now to reload all the goodies.
After formating, created a wireless config using networking wizard; pda still couldn't connect. Turned off all WEP on the linksys (again), deleted and re-created pda config, power-cycled it a few times, still no connect. I was loosing my mind at this point.
Was about to give up when I tried forcing different channels on the linksys and switching from infrastructure mode to ad-hoc on the pda and back a few times. All of a sudden the pda connected. That connect icon at least stopped blinking the world icon and gave me the blue/green card icon which turned red eventually with a dialog box indicating I had to recheck my settings. They were fine and I'm just blaming my linksys box at this point.
Why this started working makes no sense to me other than the pda got stuck on a channel for transmit that was not the same as my linksys. Or I had some weird interference from another AP in the neighborhood. Another node near me had a similar SSID name as me but all in lower case, mine capitalized the first letter (Sonoma vs. sonoma). So I changed my SSID to something different. Maybe my PDA was listening to my linksys, but trying to connect to my neighbors? Split tx/rx channels?
I also had to first ping from the pda to the linksys before I could finally use the net. Seems the pda was not performing an ARP when connecting or my linksys box is just flakey. I'm just glad its back working again.
WEP 128b mode is working again and the pda is working as it was before my war-walk or should I call it the pda-death-walk. Totally weird. Now to reload all the goodies.