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If this is posted to the wrong place please forgive, I am working on an NDIS intermediate miniport driver on WM5/6. Our driver works on all CE platforms ( and all other windows platforms ) and installs and works on WM5 and 6 *EXCEPT* form some strange behavior around WLAN connections.
When we are installed w/ a WLAN, when the machine powers up, or soft boots, or suspend/resumes, the default SSID attempts to connect. Instead of auto-connecting, the 'tower icon' never connects, instead eventually a second 'tower icon' comes up and I get two 'tower' icons connecting. Neither ever connect.
If I manually go into 'network cards' and press 'connect', the SSID will connect and authenticate, and the network works, and the IM works and sees all traffic.
Micro$hit refuses to support anything, and HTC is no better.
If you guys are smart enough the reverse engineer the entire OS, does anyone have any idea what is going on here? Any ideas would be great.
What about an alternative comm manager that would work around this? I wrote a wzc application to try and duplicate the behavior when I manually press connect in comm manager, but it just seems to replicate the 'auto connect' behavior w/ two 'tower icons'
Does anyone know what is happening?
Does anyone have an application that can work around this?
Can anyone write an application for $$$$ to work around this?
Help me please
-Seth
How works Your application which duplicate comm manager behavior?
Did You try functions in ossvcs.dll?
I did not write my own comm manager, this is the standard comm manager, I am relying on the default WM6 one.
I wrote an app using the WZC calls based on WZCTOOL in the CE6 sdk, and when I put the key, and enc type in it will successfully connect to the access point. With my IM installed, however, this WZC app will re-produce the problem described before exactly. Somehow the default windows comm manager can still successfully connect manually... how does it do this, what calls does it use, I need to know how. Can anyone write this? The code in wzctool will not do it ( I don't think, possibly I have bone stuck in my head ).
I don't know ossvcs, please elaborate on how/what functions I might be interested in.
As an aside, does anyone want to try our shim on one of your custom kernels. I am necessarily running on a standard WM6 kernel, if someone would test and see if this problem exists on custom kernels that would be swell. I cannot modify the kernel on this one and only device I have.
Here is the good description for functions in osvcss.dll
http://www.teksoftco.com/articles/article 007/radiodevices.htm
HTH
I tried out the ossvcs sample application, and it caused the same behavior I see with the WZC stuff or when trying to 'auto connect' after a reset. That is, the access point never connects. Manually I can still connect by going into comm mgr, editing the access point, pressing cancel, then connect, and instant connection. What api call is this app using at that point?
It's verry strange behavior.
One tip from other side - did You try call SetDevicePower fo Wifi Driver and intermediate driver?
no special handling
I will look into SetDevicePoPower, but I think NDIS should be handling power events... Any further info on SetDevicePoPower or anything else would be great.
Oh yeah, in case I didn't say so before, you guys *ROCK*! Keep up the good work, and if I ever solve this problem I will be sure to 'let on'.
Does anyone out there in the wide world have an Ndis Intermeidate Miniport driver akin to PASSTHRU working for 802.11xxx on a TyTn ( WM5 or 6 )?
Yes NDIS handling power events, but by using api setdevicepower You can explicitly on/off wifi connection
Please try to write small apllication which turn wifi on and off.
CEDEVICE_POWER_STATECEDEVICE_POWER_STATE devState = D4; //Full power - constant D0 represents NO power state (OFF)
DevicePowerNotify("<WifiAdapeterName> (qualified - example {8DD679CE-8AB4-43c8-A14A-EA4963FAA715}\xxx1:", devState, POWER_NAME);
SetDevicePower("<WifiAdapeterName> (qualified - example {8DD679CE-8AB4-43c8-A14A-EA4963FAA715}\xxx1:", POWER_NAME, devState);
But Maybe You have still problem if wifi driver is not loaded until comm mgr button is pressed...
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WiFiFoFum
I just tried the WiFiFoFum application that allows one to power on and off the devices. Is this using the same API? WiFiFoFum did not work, I tried powering on and off my device and the real device in different orders, and it does not work.
I will try you API now...
not smart enough
I don't know enough to understand your example. Where do I get the correct GUIDs from? I assume the xxx1, is the device name instantiation.
What about 'devName' and POWER_NAME. Sorry, bone still stuck in head, ughh.
Guid is typically found on this place
\\\registry\HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\State\Suspend\
Value is
{98C5250D-C29A-4985-AE5F-AFE5367E5006}\
Device name can be found on registry key HKLM/COMM.
Also device name is displayed in wififoforum.
POWER_NAME is constant - see MSDN.
hello to all!
sorry for my english
after update and data crash,
mi wlan card does not be avaiable.
i read in other tread that eproom could be rewritten with data.
i know my wlan card mac ,
and i wish to know, how can i make to rewritten it.
any one a idea?
i probe later again with touch it final, i hope that with total commander i can written this if i know the place of the eproom.
please help.
Odd. Something else is acting weird with my device's wifi too! It says incorrect network key to my home network, whose key I've not changed. On the other hand, I'm connected to my home network on my laptop using the same ol' key and posting this via it
Damn htc!
thank you for answer
i have see that my wlan router a bad Mac adress show
192.168.178.40 00:00:00:00:00:00
and nothing work
my herald going good before a downloaded to other firmware.
momentany is work whit wm5 again, i can whit Active sync going in internet.
i thing that my problem is this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299451
and
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322225 solved
but i need a read eproom whit working wlan. can you that?
Hello everybody,
first of all - thank you all: helmi, xplode, all pdaviet guys, and others - you're making magic with BA roms, really thank you.
Please help me, I have an annoying problem: most of the times I try, I can't turn on WLAN. Rarely, somehow I manage to turn it on, but it happens very rarely, and this is driving me crazy.
I don't know whether it is a rom problem, or something else.
I have tried almost all roms available, because i read explode somewhere said that his last rom solved this problem...but nothing.
Something curious: this is the third BA i own, and I saw this problem before, but somehow i could turn WLAN on (I'd press the WLAN icon in comm manager many times, etc.), but on this BA it's just almost impossible to turn WLAN on.
Any ideas, please?
You need to go to the COMM manager, then go to Settings (down the bottom) > WLAN settings.
Then press "Turn on WLAN". If it doesnt come on after that, go back to COMM Manager then press wireless button.
thank you for the advice, but I'm aware of that trick - It does not help.
I used it on other BA's, and it was working, however, on this one it does not (most of the times).
Namely, I would think the WLAN module is simply dead, but then, sometimes, (unfortunately quire rarely) I manage to turn it on with the above procedure - first in comm manager, then settings, "turn wlan on", then comm manager again...
I don't get it, is it the ROM, or just my BA?
i'm using BA_ROM_CE_OS_5.2.19716__Build_19716.1.1.0_PV_DVH__16MB_Ram_16MB_PP as it is the only one that supports the new Wifiv2 driver
Do the search for "dead wlan due to erased eeprom"
Flyboy:
tried, but nothing. reflashed ba with BA_ROM_CE_OS_5.2.19716__Build_19716.1.1.0_PV_DVH__ 16MB, (the version without ram - although I don't understand what's the difference), then cold boot with no yes,yes...), installed wlan v2, but nothing, can't turn wlan on. Thank you anyway...
wit:
hmm...interesting, I assume you meant the hermes subforum topic (Dead wlan due to erased eeprom? *SOLVED*), but it's quite hard to follow, as it is for hermes... Also, posting a question there would not be liked by drummer10630, I mean he's great, helped many people, but for our BA the procedure is not the same, so he couldn't help me...
Anyway thank you all who read this, especially for your much needed help, I appreciate it.
after flash try cold boot with no NO,yes... just format the storage!!!
flyboy, tried that too, but no success.
I think I'll have to give up, I'm depressed.
****.
Bump.
Anyone else had any success stories they can post? I am in the same boat as pooksee1802.
WiFi will turn on, detect the network, go through all the settings but never complete the connection. It will connect maybe once in 20 attempts. It isn't that it simply doesn't work or is definitely broken, its just that it very rarely completes the connection. When it does complete the connection it works fine until the next time you need to connect.
i have the same issue...tried everything...no can do
wifi goes up, find the access point, requesting network key, then it retry connecting till dead by itself
i found a weird thing : whatever I set it to using Open + WEP, after tap "connect", it goes back to WPA-PSK + TKIP thing...
really annoying
Xda-viewers,
yesterday i tried to put on my WiFi, but it didn't work anymore
I have my HD2 for about 1month, very happy with the phone,
and this is the first mayor malfunction
When i press WiFi ON in the comm-manager it shows it's loading,
and then nothing, doesn't go ON,
turned the phone off-on, soft reset.. nothing..
anyone else had this glitch?
hard reset or other solution?
It always worked, untill yesterday
If I were you I would go for a full backup with SPB, and then restore (maybe excluding everything regarding the wifi) after a hard reset
I would try doing hard reset.
However, I had the same problem with my old Fujitsu Siemens Pocket Loox N560 and they had to exchange mainboard.
Do you have it charging? I can't seem to connect to any Wifi networks when I have the phone plugged in. Once i disconnect it, it works fine.
If you are connecting it using USB, make sure WMDC / ActiveSync is set to allowing your phone wireless connections while connected to your PC!
???
phone is fully charged
not connected to PC or anything
not working, going to try some things
anyone goto suggestions except hard reset?
else i hard reset tommorow,
thankz
You mean you can't turn ON or NOT CONNECTING?
If its not connecting, did you try to delete the connection settings from advanced wireless settings and try reconnecting again?
skr_xd said:
You mean you can't turn ON or NOT CONNECTING?
If its not connecting, did you try to delete the connection settings from advanced wireless settings and try reconnecting again?
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It's really not turning ON.
I press the Off-On button, I see it loading and then, nothing,
WiFi is still turned OFF.
timodc said:
It's really not turning ON.
I press the Off-On button, I see it loading and then, nothing,
WiFi is still turned OFF.
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I've got exactly the same problem - have only noticed it today.
If I go into wireless network config and select my network there and click connect, it takes ages before it says "connected" and then immediately changes to "not connected". I've obviously checked and rechecked my settings. It simply will not connect any more.
i also can't remember installing an update which would cause this probleme..
Connected to PC
When connected to PC, in the comm manager, the WLAN is dissabled, can't even push it, maybe something went wrong with disconnecting and this is the reason why my WiFi is not working - going on?
Anyone?
I'm not at home, so can't do anything with mine at the moment, but out of curiosity, did you use then Wifi N option in BsB Tweaks? That's the only thing Wifi related that I can think of touching recently.
Tried it
Indeed, thought the same,
tried to put Wifi-N off, soft-reset, but no change
Almost at the edge of HARD-reset
timodc said:
Indeed, thought the same,
tried to put Wifi-N off, soft-reset, but no change
Almost at the edge of HARD-reset
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I really hope it doesn't need a hard reset. I'm not gonna be happy if I have to do that AGAIN!
I'm gonna keep searching, in the hope of finding a solution.
Out of curiosity, do you ever use the Wifi router app?
WM-Wifirouter
I tried to use the Wlan-Router with Comm manager,
didn't work that well,
installed app I had on my P3600: WM-Wifirouter,
this worked like a charm,
Timo
I've solved my problem! Yay!!
I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but give it a try and see how you get on.
Basically, when using the in-built wifi router, it assigned the IP address 192.168.1.1 to the wireless adapter. This is fair enough, for a router, but obviously not for when you want to connect to a wifi network and get assigned an IP address automatically.
I had seen other people suggest that this may be the problem, so I'd already checked my IP settings for the wireless adapter, and they were set to automatic.
However, if you run the wifi router and then go to your IP settings, it says 192.168.1.1. Set it to automatic while the router is running.
This made my phone get a bit upset, and I ended up reseting it, but since then I've been able to connect to my home network again.
So...
1. Run and start the wifi router
2. Go to settings, Connections, Wifi, Wireless networks, Network Adapters (tab)
3. Select the network adapter (Broadcom 802.11 DHD Network Adapter)
4. Change to use a server-assigned IP address, instead of a specific one
5. Click OK
6. Reset the phone - don't close the wifi router app first.
7. When it starts up, go to the comm mananger and disable wifi.
You should now be able to start wifi and connect to your home network. (It may do it automatically if you don't do step 7 - I'm not sure).
Give it a try and let us know how you get on
Sensational johncmolyneux!!!
I had this problem too - it was doing my head in, but now seems like an obvious conflict. Thanks for finding the solution.
Now all I need to do is solve my BT Voice Commander problem (reported in many other threads) and the HD2 will have the same functionality as the Hermes it has replaced ;-)
Cheers,
Lordbowl
You still haven't hard reset?! I am doing hard reset every 6days because of mod/theme and other crap testing
Backups with resco/pim/office2007 entreprise on windows 7 beta do the trick to have phone working in 15 minuts.
johncmolyneux said:
I've solved my problem! Yay!!
I don't know if this will be of any help to you, but give it a try and see how you get on.
Basically, when using the in-built wifi router, it assigned the IP address 192.168.1.1 to the wireless adapter. This is fair enough, for a router, but obviously not for when you want to connect to a wifi network and get assigned an IP address automatically.
I had seen other people suggest that this may be the problem, so I'd already checked my IP settings for the wireless adapter, and they were set to automatic.
However, if you run the wifi router and then go to your IP settings, it says 192.168.1.1. Set it to automatic while the router is running.
This made my phone get a bit upset, and I ended up reseting it, but since then I've been able to connect to my home network again.
So...
1. Run and start the wifi router
2. Go to settings, Connections, Wifi, Wireless networks, Network Adapters (tab)
3. Select the network adapter (Broadcom 802.11 DHD Network Adapter)
4. Change to use a server-assigned IP address, instead of a specific one
5. Click OK
6. Reset the phone - don't close the wifi router app first.
7. When it starts up, go to the comm mananger and disable wifi.
You should now be able to start wifi and connect to your home network. (It may do it automatically if you don't do step 7 - I'm not sure).
Give it a try and let us know how you get on
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-When I try to connect the WLAN-Router with the Comm Manager, it keeps on loading and nothing happens.
-When I try the WM-Wifi-Router app which I used on my P3600, it says not abble to connect WLAN
-All my settings are server-assigned-IP-address
Still not able to put on my WLAN,
Timo
Hi! Sorry for this message, but I really didn't find a topic that would answer my question. My phone shows that the wifi is connected to my home network, but I can't acces any internet pages, or even update weather. My laptop which is also connected to the home wifi is working properly. I just recieved my phone from the servis, I explained the problem with the wifi, and they said that it should work OK, and that there is no problem with the hard or softwear!! I would appreciate any help from you guys. Many thanks!
pinot112 said:
Hi! Sorry for this message, but I really didn't find a topic that would answer my question. My phone shows that the wifi is connected to my home network, but I can't acces any internet pages, or even update weather. My laptop which is also connected to the home wifi is working properly. I just recieved my phone from the servis, I explained the problem with the wifi, and they said that it should work OK, and that there is no problem with the hard or softwear!! I would appreciate any help from you guys. Many thanks!
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The issue is probably in your connection settings, Settings\Connections\Connections\Advanced\Select Networks.
Can't tell who your provider is so can't help you from there.
My provider is SIMOBIL. But why should my problem with wifi connection be connected to my provider? Isn't wifi totally seperated from that? Cause my SIMOBIL network works just fine, it's the wifi that says it's connected and doesn't work at all. Thanks!!
Make sure that your IP and DNS settings are correct in the D2. Also any encryption as well.
Are you connecting to a router? If so, make sure your security settings are correct, and allow the D2 to access the internet, ie, allowing the MAC address.
I need to enter my MAC address in my router and can't find it on my TD2 (model T5358) and my manual is only in Chinese, so that's no help. I searched "MAC Address" in the topaz fourm but didn't see the path to follow to find it. If you know how to find it, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
MI 99XPL said:
I need to enter my MAC address in my router and can't find it on my TD2 (model T5358) and my manual is only in Chinese, so that's no help. I searched "MAC Address" in the topaz fourm but didn't see the path to follow to find it. If you know how to find it, any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Turn on Wi-Fi, then Settings\Connections\Wi-Fi\Advanced\ (or Comm Manager\Wi-Fi\Advanced\) then switch to tab Advanced
pinot112 said:
Hi! Sorry for this message, but I really didn't find a topic that would answer my question. My phone shows that the wifi is connected to my home network, but I can't acces any internet pages, or even update weather. My laptop which is also connected to the home wifi is working properly. I just recieved my phone from the servis, I explained the problem with the wifi, and they said that it should work OK, and that there is no problem with the hard or softwear!! I would appreciate any help from you guys. Many thanks!
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i experience the same thing, but after i change the router WEP encryption key from hexadecimal input back to character input, it works flawlessly. think phone just not support hexadecimal encrype key??
Try to set the Power Management slider to Best Performance in the wifi section. I experienced that some ROMs need to be set like that to work, otherwise the symptoms are like yours: phone "looks" connected but no traffic is going on..
What protocol/standard is your wifi?
I have notice that since I replaced my wireless G router with an N router (same brand - D-Link), that my connection only lasts for a few seconds while I'm active. After a minute, or any delay in activity, my connection is invalid and I get 404 errors. I had no trouble surfing for hours before, and my laptop seems fine, so I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting.