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Posted by Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] on April 6, 2006, 12:52 pm
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We're running into a terminology problem here. "Network" card is not
specific enough. You're connected to an Ethernet cable at the PC? Are you
using a virtual private network to allow you to access a remote network at
another office via the Internet, but securely? What anti-virus is running?
What firewall on the PC? What operating system and version?
Paul T.
> Thanks for the reply Paul,
>
> We do not use wireless (we're only a poor local authority), we use onboard
> network connections on our IBM Netvista's/Thinkcentres. Will try the
> latest drivers as well though.
>
> This idea that it is the Intel onboard Network card seems valid, as when I
> have disabled the card, rebooted to local, the PDA syncs and creates a
> parntership without any problems. This idea came from a trusted technical
> support person at HP, so we tend to believe what they're saying.
>
> Hope this helps...........lord knows we need a solution. I just cannot
> believe we're the only organisation to be affected by this!
>
> Regards
>
> Rich
> "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <p space tobey no spam AT no instrument no spam DOT
>> Just to check, as there *is* an ongoing investigation at MS on one
>> situation concerning wireless networking and WM5 devices, please answer
>> the following:
>>
>> 1. Are your wireless network connections on the PCs using WPA encryption?
>>
>> 2. If yes, does the problem boil down to: when you connect the WM5 device
>> to the PC, the PC can no longer access the wireless network?
>>
>> 3. If yes, please detail the PC models, access point models, Intel driver
>> versions for the wireless cards, and whether the Intel wireless manager
>> software is installed or not.
>>
>> 4. Make sure that you have, as Chris said, the latest Intel driver for
>> the card. This fixes some of the problems.
>>
>> 5. If 4 doesn't fix it and you have Intel's wireless manager installed,
>> try uninstalling the Intel wireless manager software (just the manager,
>> not the driver for the network adapter).
>>
>> Please post answers to #3, additional symptoms, fixes, etc. to a thread
>> titled "ActiveSync Kills Wireless" in this group.
>>
>> Paul T.
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> We recently purchased 3 Dell X51's running Windows Mobile Ver5. The
>>> usual problem of syncing using 4.1 appeared (the green circle rotating
>>> and that's it). After checking with Dell support, I was informed to let
>>> 4 files through the firewall and it'll be ok. Snag is, we have a
>>> corporate firewall held on a central server, not any local firewalls. I
>>> informed out IT support and we found another team with new HP PDA's
>>> having the same problem. It appears to be an incompatibility between
>>> Intel chip Network cards and Windows Mob Ver5, as Ver5 uses TCP/IP to
>>> connect. I have since been trying to find if Microsoft is working on a
>>> solution but to no avail.
>>>
>>> Anyone who has the syncing issue should check id they are using an Intel
>>> 'powered' network card.
>>>
>>> What I really want to know is if Microsoft is doing anything about this
>>> as we have over £1000 of equipement sitting here next to useless.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Rich Millyard
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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