Re: Please, don't kill my WiFi!

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Sure, to fix your one problem that small amount of documentation would do it
and when you start building devices, you can handle it, but the process of
actually integrating a bunch of hardware with many MB of operating system
code means that trying to specify at a low-level everything that will happen
in every situation is impossible.

Not everything, but important actions, such as forceful disconnection
certainly must be shown to the user. For example, when my Zone Alarm
wants to block a connection, it does notify me (unless I told it not to).

Otherwise, there is absolutely no way to tell what happened.
On iPaqs the problem manifests itself in the following way:
status suddenly changes from Connected to "Driver not loaded".
That's it. No other hints. On HTC devices, IP address simply disappears,
but status remains "Connected".
If you search for '"Driver not loaded" iPaq' on google or HP forums
you will find hundreds of screams for help. No all of them may be
explained by ActiveSync, but many may. People trying
all kind of thing: soft reset, hard reset, removing battery for 30 seconds
some even sent devices to HP for replacement, but, of course,
the replaced device has the same problem: "Driver not loaded"
after a second or two.
No matter how many MB of operating system code you have,
this is not the way to treat customers. I would understand if this
would have been a bug, but this was a deliberate (and malicious) decision.


If it doesn't drop the WiFi connection it *is* less-secure. That's just the
way it is.

Yes, when my PC is connected to Internet it *is* less-secure
than when it is not connected. That's just the way it is.
But if some idiot in marketing will decide that Windows
should shut itself down once I plugged in network cable,
what do you thing user's reaction will be?

The most-secure device is one that does the right thing and does *not* allow the
user to choose to run that email attachment or allow that ActiveX control on
the Web site.

On the other hand I heard opinion that too restrictive and too cumbersome
security is actually less secure because it forces users to
find work around or disable it completely. That's why ActiveX and
E-mail attachments are never disabled completely, but user is given
a choice to disable them (by the way, I have ActiveX disabled).

Well, the gateway components are not in the average PDA (and that scenario
is exactly what the security measure is trying to prevent, in the other
direction, by the way). In fact, all traffic from the PDA to the "Internet"
will go through ActiveSync, if it's connected, not the other way.

Well, I will poke around. Once I understood what actually happens, I will
know where to look.
Again, before I thought that my iPaq is simply not compatible with my router,
which I have no way to fix.

You might be able to find some way to get something to work, but you'd be much better
off just buying a cheap wireless card for the PC.

It is funny. I did consider this option, but I decided against it not
because of price,
but because of security. As I understood, third party WiFi cards will
require third party drivers.
I am tired of buggy third party device drivers, blue screens, background
processes,
tray icons and system slow-downs.

So, I will spend some more time trying to pass through the PDA
or I will have to buy a WiFi bridge.

Thank you
John


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