Re: Activesync Kills Wireless

Dear colleagues!

I suffer exactly the same problem! Using a Dell Inspiron with a Intel BG2200 wireless built-in, driver 9.0.3.9.

Whenever I plugin the WM5 device via USB, my wireless network (PSK encrypted) goes down and tries to reconnect, but fails.

When I open the control panel for the network connections whilst doing all this, I can see that, as soon as i plug in the pocketpc, the wireless connection gets "disabled" for a few seconds, then it tries to connect again - again it gets "disabeld". (I mean the icon is crossed out - then blank again - and crossed out again - sorry for my bad English).

Also, when first looking into that problem I noticed that, since I installed Activesync 4.1, my Ethernet connection has been renamed to something like "Ehternet LAN" and the Windows Mobile device connection (found it control panel - network) is named "Ethernet LAN". Very strange behaviour! The wrong spelling first made me believe that there might be a virus or similar - until I found this thread here!

Thank you all for sharing the information - I will spread this to my friends, since I think many will look forlorn when this happens to them...

(btw, does no one in the MS beta team use encrypted wireless????)

kind regards,
Chris

p.s. the above mail address is used solely for usenet and therefore not read - please do not mail me.


mail_junk@xxxxxxxxx schrieb:
Paul,

As an additional data point for the people at MS working on this, I've
just confirmed on my network as well, that the entire wireless network
comes down as soon as the PPC is plugged in!! The other PC was also
using WPA-PSK, netgear adapter (not intel 2200bg) , Win XP sp2 with NO
Activesync installed.

Thanks

.

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