Re: Activesync Kills Wireless

It doesn't happen, as far as I can tell, with all wireless cards, so it's
specific to this and, apparently, maybe one or two others. I was one of the
beta testers and it just so happens that I didn't run WPA. If, as it
appears, there is a connection with the NIC driver *and* WPA, then the
cross-section for finding the bug is pretty small.

I'm hoping that one of the AS team guys will pick up this thread soon...

Paul T.

"Max Klug" <themax@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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