HP Jornada - need help

I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?

Paige
Sat Jun 07 21:12:03 PDT 2008

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:34:01 -0400, "Bill Bunn" <bbunn@cablespeed.com>
wrote:

>I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
>The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
>it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
>Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?
>
I made the mistake of buying one years ago. When I found the user
community had vanished off the face of the planet I sold it off.

mike
Sun Jun 08 08:26:23 PDT 2008

Paige Matthews wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:34:01 -0400, "Bill Bunn" <bbunn@cablespeed.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
>> The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
>> it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
>> Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?
>>
> I made the mistake of buying one years ago. When I found the user
> community had vanished off the face of the planet I sold it off.
>
I had a 690 that worked fine with an avaya (prism) card.


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physhure
Sun Jun 08 17:55:56 PDT 2008

On Jun 8, 10:34 am, "Bill Bunn" <bb...@cablespeed.com> wrote:
> I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
> The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
> it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
> Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?

Are you sure the wireless router you are connected to, is actually
connected to the internet? The wireless router itself needs a modem,
and if that is turned off, then you will get the situation you are
describing.

r_z_aret
Mon Jun 09 12:34:21 PDT 2008

On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:34:01 -0400, "Bill Bunn" <bbunn@cablespeed.com>
wrote:

>I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
>The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
>it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
>Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?
>

As of when I'm writing this reply, no one has replied to your question
in microsoft.public.handheldpc, but that really is the right newsgroup
for questions about Handheld PCs like your 728. If you search its
archives, you should find links to useful web sites, including some
that might still be active.
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replyonusenet
Mon Jun 09 14:59:40 PDT 2008

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:34:21 -0400, r_z_aret@pen_fact.com wrote:

>On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:34:01 -0400, "Bill Bunn" <bbunn@cablespeed.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I just bought a new old stock Jornada 728 and an Agere wireless pcmia card.
>>The install program for the card seemed to set up ok, I get a message saying
>>it is connected, but cannot access the internet,
>>Anyone had any experience with one of these old pocket pc's?
>>
>
>As of when I'm writing this reply, no one has replied to your question
>in microsoft.public.handheldpc, but that really is the right newsgroup
>for questions about Handheld PCs like your 728. If you search its
>archives, you should find links to useful web sites, including some
>that might still be active.
>-----------------------------------------
Microsoft.public.handheldpc is not the right group for questions.
The user community gave up on the platform years ago.

Users for devices like the HP 200lx and other discontinued devices are
very active and keeping the platform alive. Sadly the Handheld is
not one of those platforms. The users abandoned the platform years
ago.

I've posted questions to microsoft.public.handheldpc, they never got
answered since the users have abandoned the platform.

I was never able to find these any useful web sites, If there are
any they still remain a mystery today.

If I had known how dead the user community was i'd have skipped
buying a handheld.

Beverly
Mon Jun 09 17:03:45 PDT 2008

>> Agere wireless pcmia card <<

Think the drivers for the lucent orinoco wifi card (hermes chipset?)
were in rom... they were included in the early ppc's and I _think_ I
remember that I successfully used one in my IBM workpad running wince
2.something

This card was vended under a number of brands, dell, buffalo, etc, don't
know if Agere was one of them, but, if not, hunt down one of the orinoco
cards.

Beverly Howard

Helge
Tue Jun 10 04:53:54 PDT 2008

Driver for the cards with Hermes-chipset are not in ROM of the HP
Joranda series Handheld PCs.
The Agere card is one of them.
IMHO the problem here is not the driver. I would say it is something
with the encryption settings or anything with the IP-adresses (DHCP?,
wrong gateway?, wrong DNS?)...
I would get at first vxUtil and have a look, if I'm really connected to
the router, what IP-adresses I've got from it, try a Ping to the router...
Kind regards, Helge

mike
Tue Jun 10 09:40:31 PDT 2008

Helge Tefs wrote:
> Driver for the cards with Hermes-chipset are not in ROM of the HP
> Joranda series Handheld PCs.
> The Agere card is one of them.
> IMHO the problem here is not the driver. I would say it is something
> with the encryption settings or anything with the IP-adresses (DHCP?,
> wrong gateway?, wrong DNS?)...
Good point. Older devices don't know about new technology.
Turn off ALL encryption and validation stuff in your router and start
from there.
Another problem I've seen with older cards is that they can be picky
about the make/model router they can talk with.
I've had three identical Symbol CF cards. One worked with any router.
One worked with some routers. One only worked with one router.

I think this is one of the few remaining websites.
http://www.hpcfactor.com


> I would get at first vxUtil and have a look, if I'm really connected to
> the router, what IP-adresses I've got from it, try a Ping to the router...
> Kind regards, Helge


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