Saturday, July 27, 2002
How to get WiFi connected in a snap
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "SOFTWARE" @ 12:55 PM
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2875582,00.html
David Berlind of ZDNet explains how he got his iPAQ Pocket PC running on a WiFi network in a snap. The article mentions a special Symbol Technologies utility and is an interesting read both from a technology standpoint as well as from a "what-can-I-do-with-it" standpoint.
"A minute later, my iPaq was on the Internet. The systems engineer whipped out Symbol's Wireless Networker CF card and asked "Can you take one of these?" ... The utility has nine tabs, each representing a grouping of card configuration functions. The IP configuration tab not only shows if you picked DHCP (automatic, network determined) or Static IP addressing, it also shows values in the IP settings (address, mask, gateway, DNS, etc.)--even if they were determined via DHCP. Not even my PC does that."
David's experiences remind me about a certain day in September, 2000, nearly two years ago. I had just gotten my iPAQ Pocket PC 3630 running on a WiFi network and contacted Brighthand about it. It was most likely one of the first WiFi connected Pocket PC implementations, so they ran with it:
Imagine if people would still start jumping up and down once they got connected...
David Berlind of ZDNet explains how he got his iPAQ Pocket PC running on a WiFi network in a snap. The article mentions a special Symbol Technologies utility and is an interesting read both from a technology standpoint as well as from a "what-can-I-do-with-it" standpoint.
"A minute later, my iPaq was on the Internet. The systems engineer whipped out Symbol's Wireless Networker CF card and asked "Can you take one of these?" ... The utility has nine tabs, each representing a grouping of card configuration functions. The IP configuration tab not only shows if you picked DHCP (automatic, network determined) or Static IP addressing, it also shows values in the IP settings (address, mask, gateway, DNS, etc.)--even if they were determined via DHCP. Not even my PC does that."
David's experiences remind me about a certain day in September, 2000, nearly two years ago. I had just gotten my iPAQ Pocket PC 3630 running on a WiFi network and contacted Brighthand about it. It was most likely one of the first WiFi connected Pocket PC implementations, so they ran with it:
Imagine if people would still start jumping up and down once they got connected...
