Aironet (802.11b) Wireless with a Jornada 720

[Tony M. Williams]

Well I am finally wireless (@ work). We have installed a small wireless
network using Cisco Aironet 340 Wireless kit.
Have 1 access point setup and 5 notebooks and 1 HP Jornada 720 (My Jornada
of course) configured. With my jornada I was fully able to surf the web, log
onto some NT servers, do some remote admin stuff, remote control a few
computers using VNC, run some TCPIP applications, oh and the best part -
able to activesync with my Win2000 Pro desktop.

The 720 comes with builtin drivers for the aironet wireless cards. I can set
the encryption rate (cool).

Also on another test, I took a notebook and my jornada to a different floor
where we didn't have wireless access and the machines could not access the
network. I set both machines up using dummy IP address and was able to do
peer-to-peer. I was able to map to a share on the notebook, copy & view
files w/o a problem. I was able to go about 800 feet @ 1 megabit. As I got
closer to the machine my connection rate increased to 11 megabits.

On a third test, I went to another building (different company) to test my
Jornada wireless out, and boom I was able to connect to their network and
get an IP address from their server (Had to change my SSID for me to access
their network) THis other company was using a wireless solution from 3Com.
Remeber my HPC had an Cisco Aironet card in it.

I don't know if the other cards by 3COM, Intel, Lucent, LinkSys are
windowsce compatible, but since they are 802.11b compatible and you have an
802.11b (ex: Cisco) card in your HPC you will be able to connect. I did.

[Stephen Souza]

ton...@jazztechnologies.com (Tony M. Williams) wrote in
<t1hae1o...@corp.supernews.com>:

>I don't know if the other cards by 3COM, Intel, Lucent, LinkSys are
>windowsce compatible, but since they are 802.11b compatible and you have
>an 802.11b (ex: Cisco) card in your HPC you will be able to connect. I
>did.
>

The Cabltron card has drivers for WindowsCE, I use it with my 820 on both a
Cabltron and a Cisco Airnet configuration.

[Kerem Kirkpinar]

Tony,

This is great! Can you also try to see how many hours you can get on a full
charge on the 720 while connected to the LAN? I'm most interested in this
before biting the bullet.

Thanks,
Kerem

"Tony M. Williams" <ton...@jazztechnologies.com> wrote in message
news:t1hae1o...@corp.supernews.com...

> Well I am finally wireless (@ work). We have installed a small wireless
> network using Cisco Aironet 340 Wireless kit.
> Have 1 access point setup and 5 notebooks and 1 HP Jornada 720 (My Jornada
> of course) configured. With my jornada I was fully able to surf the web,
log
> onto some NT servers, do some remote admin stuff, remote control a few
> computers using VNC, run some TCPIP applications, oh and the best part -
> able to activesync with my Win2000 Pro desktop.
>
> The 720 comes with builtin drivers for the aironet wireless cards. I can
set
> the encryption rate (cool).
>
> Also on another test, I took a notebook and my jornada to a different
floor
> where we didn't have wireless access and the machines could not access the
> network. I set both machines up using dummy IP address and was able to do
> peer-to-peer. I was able to map to a share on the notebook, copy & view
> files w/o a problem. I was able to go about 800 feet @ 1 megabit. As I got
> closer to the machine my connection rate increased to 11 megabits.
>
> On a third test, I went to another building (different company) to test my
> Jornada wireless out, and boom I was able to connect to their network and
> get an IP address from their server (Had to change my SSID for me to
access
> their network) THis other company was using a wireless solution from 3Com.
> Remeber my HPC had an Cisco Aironet card in it.
>

[James E. King]

Interestingly enough, I can get the Orinoco (Lucent) Wireless to work with
the 720, but can't get the
3Com wireless to work with it - the drivers install, but don't function.

[Monte Ferguson]

In article <8BbT5.1208$jU2.1...@news.uswest.net>, utah_...@yahoo.com
says...

I'm trying to get my 720 to work with the Orinoco - might I ask what base
station you're using? I'm using the RG-1000 (Lucent's Residential
Gateway) and no luck so far...

[rcb]

How did you get the Aironet card going. I have both a 4800 and 340 card and
have configured the aironet setup but can't talk to anything. I put the same
card in a laptop and it works great. Any help from anyone would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

[Jeff Layton]

Plug it in - that's it. When issues show up, hit the reset button. It really
was that easy.

--
Jeff Layton
mailto:jla...@austin.rr.com

"rcb" <rb...@excite.com> wrote in message news:OtnANr8WAHA.277@cppssbbsa05...

[Tony M. Williams]

I listed my steps on my site @ http://www.jazztechnologies.com/jornada under
Aironet

[Robert Bodnar]

Thanks... actually that was my problem in initially getting it going; I
tried to enter an SSID, etc. I ran the Aironet Uninstaller (deconfig,
really) from the Cisco site, then just stuck the card in and hit DHCP in the
network panel that popped up. It jumped onto one the access points we have
(an Airport Base Station) and away I went.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to get WEP to work. I've got the 10 digit
hex key for my various base stations (Compaq, Apple) but as soon as I turn
on WEP, I can't connect. We run, regularly, on laptops and iPaq's, but just
can't get it to work on the Jornada.

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In article <ea7Jf0BXAHA.269@cppssbbsa03>, "Jeff Layton"
<jla...@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>
> Plug it in - that's it. When issues show up, hit the reset button. It really
> was that easy.
>
> --
> Jeff Layton
> mailto:jla...@austin.rr.com
>
>
>