My wife has a legacy iPAQ 4350 running Windows for Pocket PC 2003.
Its networking card seemed to be working normally and DNS resolution
was working until yesterday. Yesterday morning I changed my router
arrangement to accommodate a machine running N protocol WiFi
encryption. Basically I added a second router configured as a passive
switch (with its own WEP-encrypted wireless network) and reset my main
router as a separate WPA2 encrypted network. This all works fine. My
single N-protocol machine is happy on its network and my Pocket PC as
well as a legacy laptop are happy on the WEP network. My wife's
legacy iPAQ 4350, however, doesn't seem to be connecting to DNS. I've
double checked several times and the iPAQ wireless card DNS IP is
definitely set to the same IP as the other WEP-network devices, namely
the IP of the WEP-network router (both routers being configured for
DNS pass-through).

I have tried removing the battery from the iPAQ and running the
“welcome" utility to reset things but no luck. The iPAQ absolutely
refuses to connect to any website. IE keeps complaining that “The
page you are looking for cannot be found.”

I have actually seen this behavior in the past with the iPAQ in
question but have usually been able to make it go away by removing the
battery and running the “welcome” utility. No such luck this time
though!

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help!

On Jul 24, 8:34 am, "no_spam_paque...@uwo.ca" <paque...@uwo.ca> wrote:
> My wife has a legacy iPAQ 4350 running Windows for Pocket PC 2003.
> Its networking card seemed to be working normally and DNS resolution
> was working until yesterday. Yesterday morning I changed my router
> arrangement to accommodate a machine running N protocol WiFi
> encryption. Basically I added a second router configured as a passive
> switch (with its own WEP-encrypted wireless network) and reset my main
> router as a separate WPA2 encrypted network. This all works fine. My
> single N-protocol machine is happy on its network and my Pocket PC as
> well as a legacy laptop are happy on the WEP network. My wife's
> legacy iPAQ 4350, however, doesn't seem to be connecting to DNS. I've
> double checked several times and the iPAQ wireless card DNS IP is
> definitely set to the same IP as the other WEP-network devices, namely
> the IP of the WEP-network router (both routers being configured for
> DNS pass-through).
>
> I have tried removing the battery from the iPAQ and running the
> “welcome" utility to reset things but no luck. The iPAQ absolutely
> refuses to connect to any website. IE keeps complaining that “The
> page you are looking for cannot be found.”
>
> I have actually seen this behavior in the past with the iPAQ in
> question but have usually been able to make it go away by removing the
> battery and running the “welcome” utility. No such luck this time
> though!
>
> Does anyone have any idea how to fix this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!

PS—VPN does connect on the iPAQ, however, so I know I have a working
WiFi connectionon it.

Suggest downloading and running vxUtil and vxIPConfig from http://cam.com

These will show the dns ip address if one exists and allow you to ping
it and determine if it is responding.

Tip on vxUtil... there are entries for all possible connection options,
so you will need to spot the currently active connection... (not hard)

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

On Jul 24, 4:41 pm, "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]"
<BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:
> Suggest downloading and running vxUtil and vxIPConfig fromhttp://cam.com
>
> These will show the dns ip address if one exists and allow you to ping
> it and determine if it is responding.
>
> Tip on vxUtil... there are entries for all possible connection options,
> so you will need to spot the currently active connection... (not hard)
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

Thank you for the reply!

When I ping with them both vxUtil and Z2PocketLan show reply packets
from the IP address for the “passive switch” router on which I am
running the 811g wireless network. Both routers are set to allow DNS
relay and three other machines including one Pocket PC (Windows Mobile
5 though) are working just fine with the saying 811g wireless network.

For some reason, however, on the Windows Mobile 2003 Pocket PC, DNS
lookup fails. All four machines are configured identically in that
the DNS address for the adapter cards is set to the IP address of the
“passive switch” router on which the 811.G wireless network is
running.

I am completely a loss to explain why this is happening!

using vxUtil's ping, what happens when you ping a "verbose" address such
as "yahoo.com" ?

Next clue, when you ping "yahoo.com" with a working pc, jot down the ip
address from that ping, and report what happens when you use vxUtil to
ping yahoo's ip address.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

On Jul 24, 8:16 pm, "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]"
<BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:
> using vxUtil's ping, what happens when you ping a "verbose" address such
> as "yahoo.com" ?
>
> Next clue, when you ping "yahoo.com" with a working pc, jot down the ip
> address from that ping, and report what happens when you use vxUtil to
> ping yahoo's ip address.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

First, thanks again!

I get packets back with no problem. Of course, if I try "Get HTML"
for http://www.yahoo.com I get a "Could not get IP address" error.
This is definitely a DNS lookup problem but I just don't see what's
going on.

rather than "get html, simply enter "yahoo.com" in the ping address
field... I expect a timeout, but want to confirm.

My focus would be back on the dhcp... first, would confirm that ip
address is really on automatic and the base ip address that the unit has
really come from the router.

Next, copy the dns address that the router itself shows and ping that
directly... there's always the possibility that the pc's have gotten
fixed or alternate dns entries.

Open the router utility on a pc and confirm that the ppc shows up as an
attached device and make sure it's mac is not in the router's fixed ip
table.

for our edification, copy the entire ip info page while connected and
post that here (edit out anything sensitive) look for something
subtle... like an alternate device with almost the same settings or an
address with an "0" rather than a "1"

Finally, you can resolve this using a fixed ip address approach by
entering a high base ip and then going directly to your desired dns server.

Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

On Jul 25, 8:19 pm, "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]"
<BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:
> rather than "get html, simply enter "yahoo.com" in the ping address
> field... I expect a timeout, but want to confirm.
>
> My focus would be back on the dhcp... first, would confirm that ip
> address is really on automatic

Yes--on "Use server-assigned IP address!"

and the base ip address that the unit has
> really come from the router.

The address is 192.168.0.104 which is within the main router's (a
second router is configured as a passive switch) ip number pool.

>
> Next, copy the dns address that the router itself shows and ping that
> directly... there's always the possibility that the pc's have gotten
> fixed or alternate dns entries.
>

The router that I am using as a passive switch to connect to 11g
machines does not display the IP number, only connect time, Mac
address, and mode. It is clear, however, from connect time and Mac
address that the router in question is “passing through” an IP
assignment to my wife's Pocket PC. Furthermore, I can ping that
Pocket PC from other machines on the network at that IP number
(192.168.0.104). The “main” router, the one that is actually
assigning DHCP addresses, does report my wife's Pocket PC name and Mac
address at 192.168.0.104.

> Open the router utility on a pc and confirm that the ppc shows up as an
> attached device and make sure it's mac is not in the router's fixed ip
> table.

There is only one reserved fixed address on the “underlying” router
(the one actually assigning DHCP addresses). That is the address used
by my main work machine for which I require a fixed address. I have
verified this visually by checking directly in the DHCP reservations
list on the underlying router.

>
> for our edification, copy the entire ip info page while connected and
> post that here (edit out anything sensitive) look for something
> subtle... like an alternate device with almost the same settings or an
> address with an "0" rather than a "1"

Time : Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:01:50 PM
Firmware Version : 1.09, 2006/10/23

WAN

Connection Type : PPPoE
Cable Status : Connected
Network Status : Established
Connection Up Time : 4 day(s), 1617

MAC Address : 009A:48:43:90
Authentication & Security : PAP
IP Address : 74.xx.xx.xxx
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway : xx.xxx.xxx.xx
Primary DNS Server : 204.101.251.1
Secondary DNS Server : 204.101.251.2
BigPond Server Name :
BigPond Status : Unknown (Please wait...)

LAN

MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:
IP Address : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server : Enabled

Wireless LAN

Wireless Radio : On
MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Network Name (SSID) : SSIDName
Channel : 6
Security Type : WPA-Personal

LAN Computers

IP Address Name (if any) MAC
192.168.0.100 MainMachine 00:16:76:c7:dd:45
192.168.0.104 WINDOWSMOBILE6 00:0f:20:80:c7:e3
192.168.0.147 Other machine(n) 009a:4c:9d:ee
192.168.0.150 2OtherMachine 00:04:23:5f:b6:0a
192.168.0.187 WINDOWSMOBILE67 00:09:2d:94:b1:03

IGMP Multicast memberships

Hmm-- yes there is definitely something suspicious here. First, I
have been wondering how this legacy Pocket PC got remained
WINDOWSMOBILE6 since that is not the name that we assigned to it.
Second, I have no idea where the second entry, that is, the
WINDOWSMOBILE67 entry came from—furthermore, the Mac number doesn't
correspond to anything I know of. I wonder if I should simply try
renaming the Pocket PC to its original name before I try assigning a
fixed IP number you suggest in the next paragraph.

What do you think?

Again thanks so much for sticking with this! Very much appreciated
indeed!

>
> Finally, you can resolve this using a fixed ip address approach by
> entering a high base ip and then going directly to your desired dns server.

Probably not, if I understand you correctly here. The reason for
adding the second (“passive switch” router) was that I needed to
operate one wireless machine on 11n yet be able to continue to operate
several legacy machines on 11g. That meant I was stuck with having
one router providing WPA encryption and another providing WEP.
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

On Jul 28, 9:46 am, "no_spam_paque...@uwo.ca" <paque...@uwo.ca> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 8:19 pm, "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]"
>
> <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:
> > rather than "get html, simply enter "yahoo.com" in the ping address
> > field... I expect a timeout, but want to confirm.
>
> > My focus would be back on the dhcp... first, would confirm that ip
> > address is really on automatic
>
> Yes--on "Use server-assigned IP address!"
>
> and the base ip address that the unit has
>
> > really come from the router.
>
> The address is 192.168.0.104 which is within the main router's (a
> second router is configured as a passive switch) ip number pool.
>
>
>
> > Next, copy the dns address that the router itself shows and ping that
> > directly... there's always the possibility that the pc's have gotten
> > fixed or alternate dns entries.
>
> The router that I am using as a passive switch to connect to 11g
> machines does not display the IP number, only connect time, Mac
> address, and mode. It is clear, however, from connect time and Mac
> address that the router in question is “passing through” an IP
> assignment to my wife's Pocket PC. Furthermore, I can ping that
> Pocket PC from other machines on the network at that IP number
> (192.168.0.104). The “main” router, the one that is actually
> assigning DHCP addresses, does report my wife's Pocket PC name and Mac
> address at 192.168.0.104.
>
> > Open the router utility on a pc and confirm that the ppc shows up as an
> > attached device and make sure it's mac is not in the router's fixed ip
> > table.
>
> There is only one reserved fixed address on the “underlying” router
> (the one actually assigning DHCP addresses). That is the address used
> by my main work machine for which I require a fixed address. I have
> verified this visually by checking directly in the DHCP reservations
> list on the underlying router.
>
>
>
> > for our edification, copy the entire ip info page while connected and
> > post that here (edit out anything sensitive) look for something
> > subtle... like an alternate device with almost the same settings or an
> > address with an "0" rather than a "1"
>
> Time : Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:01:50 PM
> Firmware Version : 1.09, 2006/10/23
>
> WAN
>
> Connection Type : PPPoE
> Cable Status : Connected
> Network Status : Established
> Connection Up Time : 4 day(s), 1617
>
> MAC Address : 009A:48:43:90
> Authentication & Security : PAP
> IP Address : 74.xx.xx.xxx
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.255
> Default Gateway : xx.xxx.xxx.xx
> Primary DNS Server : 204.101.251.1
> Secondary DNS Server : 204.101.251.2
> BigPond Server Name :
> BigPond Status : Unknown (Please wait...)
>
> LAN
>
> MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:
> IP Address : 192.168.0.1
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
> DHCP Server : Enabled
>
> Wireless LAN
>
> Wireless Radio : On
> MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> Network Name (SSID) : SSIDName
> Channel : 6
> Security Type : WPA-Personal
>
> LAN Computers
>
> IP Address Name (if any) MAC
> 192.168.0.100 MainMachine 00:16:76:c7:dd:45
> 192.168.0.104 WINDOWSMOBILE6 00:0f:20:80:c7:e3
> 192.168.0.147 Other machine(n) 009a:4c:9d:ee
> 192.168.0.150 2OtherMachine 00:04:23:5f:b6:0a
> 192.168.0.187 WINDOWSMOBILE67 00:09:2d:94:b1:03
>
> IGMP Multicast memberships
>
> Hmm-- yes there is definitely something suspicious here. First, I
> have been wondering how this legacy Pocket PC got remained
> WINDOWSMOBILE6 since that is not the name that we assigned to it.
> Second, I have no idea where the second entry, that is, the
> WINDOWSMOBILE67 entry came from—furthermore, the Mac number doesn't
> correspond to anything I know of. I wonder if I should simply try
> renaming the Pocket PC to its original name before I try assigning a
> fixed IP number you suggest in the next paragraph.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Again thanks so much for sticking with this! Very much appreciated
> indeed!
>
>
>
> > Finally, you can resolve this using a fixed ip address approach by
> > entering a high base ip and then going directly to your desired dns server.
>
> Probably not, if I understand you correctly here. The reason for
> adding the second (“passive switch” router) was that I needed to
> operate one wireless machine on 11n yet be able to continue to operate
> several legacy machines on 11g. That meant I was stuck with having
> one router providing WPA encryption and another providing WEP.
>
>
>
> > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

PS--Tried fixed address--no luck on that either!

On Jul 28, 9:46 am, "no_spam_paque...@uwo.ca" <paque...@uwo.ca> wrote:
> On Jul 25, 8:19 pm, "Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]"
>
> <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote:
> > rather than "get html, simply enter "yahoo.com" in the ping address
> > field... I expect a timeout, but want to confirm.
>
> > My focus would be back on the dhcp... first, would confirm that ip
> > address is really on automatic
>
> Yes--on "Use server-assigned IP address!"
>
> and the base ip address that the unit has
>
> > really come from the router.
>
> The address is 192.168.0.104 which is within the main router's (a
> second router is configured as a passive switch) ip number pool.
>
>
>
> > Next, copy the dns address that the router itself shows and ping that
> > directly... there's always the possibility that the pc's have gotten
> > fixed or alternate dns entries.
>
> The router that I am using as a passive switch to connect to 11g
> machines does not display the IP number, only connect time, Mac
> address, and mode. It is clear, however, from connect time and Mac
> address that the router in question is “passing through” an IP
> assignment to my wife's Pocket PC. Furthermore, I can ping that
> Pocket PC from other machines on the network at that IP number
> (192.168.0.104). The “main” router, the one that is actually
> assigning DHCP addresses, does report my wife's Pocket PC name and Mac
> address at 192.168.0.104.
>
> > Open the router utility on a pc and confirm that the ppc shows up as an
> > attached device and make sure it's mac is not in the router's fixed ip
> > table.
>
> There is only one reserved fixed address on the “underlying” router
> (the one actually assigning DHCP addresses). That is the address used
> by my main work machine for which I require a fixed address. I have
> verified this visually by checking directly in the DHCP reservations
> list on the underlying router.
>
>
>
> > for our edification, copy the entire ip info page while connected and
> > post that here (edit out anything sensitive) look for something
> > subtle... like an alternate device with almost the same settings or an
> > address with an "0" rather than a "1"
>
> Time : Thursday, July 01, 2004 6:01:50 PM
> Firmware Version : 1.09, 2006/10/23
>
> WAN
>
> Connection Type : PPPoE
> Cable Status : Connected
> Network Status : Established
> Connection Up Time : 4 day(s), 1617
>
> MAC Address : 009A:48:43:90
> Authentication & Security : PAP
> IP Address : 74.xx.xx.xxx
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.255
> Default Gateway : xx.xxx.xxx.xx
> Primary DNS Server : 204.101.251.1
> Secondary DNS Server : 204.101.251.2
> BigPond Server Name :
> BigPond Status : Unknown (Please wait...)
>
> LAN
>
> MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:
> IP Address : 192.168.0.1
> Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.0
> DHCP Server : Enabled
>
> Wireless LAN
>
> Wireless Radio : On
> MAC Address : xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> Network Name (SSID) : SSIDName
> Channel : 6
> Security Type : WPA-Personal
>
> LAN Computers
>
> IP Address Name (if any) MAC
> 192.168.0.100 MainMachine 00:16:76:c7:dd:45
> 192.168.0.104 WINDOWSMOBILE6 00:0f:20:80:c7:e3
> 192.168.0.147 Other machine(n) 009a:4c:9d:ee
> 192.168.0.150 2OtherMachine 00:04:23:5f:b6:0a
> 192.168.0.187 WINDOWSMOBILE67 00:09:2d:94:b1:03
>
> IGMP Multicast memberships
>
> Hmm-- yes there is definitely something suspicious here. First, I
> have been wondering how this legacy Pocket PC got remained
> WINDOWSMOBILE6 since that is not the name that we assigned to it.
> Second, I have no idea where the second entry, that is, the
> WINDOWSMOBILE67 entry came from—furthermore, the Mac number doesn't
> correspond to anything I know of. I wonder if I should simply try
> renaming the Pocket PC to its original name before I try assigning a
> fixed IP number you suggest in the next paragraph.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Again thanks so much for sticking with this! Very much appreciated
> indeed!
>
>
>
> > Finally, you can resolve this using a fixed ip address approach by
> > entering a high base ip and then going directly to your desired dns server.
>
> Probably not, if I understand you correctly here. The reason for
> adding the second (“passive switch” router) was that I needed to
> operate one wireless machine on 11n yet be able to continue to operate
> several legacy machines on 11g. That meant I was stuck with having
> one router providing WPA encryption and another providing WEP.
>
>
>
> > Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]

PS--Tried fixed address--no luck on that either!