Re: Windows CE .NET 4.2 x86 with Cisco 350 WLAN... No IP Address

From: Chris Adamson (cadamson-spam-me-not-_at_lotsofspamidentecsolutions.com)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 15:11:43 -0800

Hi Paul,

Thank you for your suggestions. We are passing off all the work to Advantech
as they have more expertise on all this.

Cheers,
-Chris

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey_no_spam@instrument_no_spam.com> wrote in
message news:%23wRrubSDEHA.3664@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Our ARM-based Windows CE.NET devices include the Microsoft-provided 350
card
> support, which works fine and has no problem getting addresses.
>
> Under Windows CE 3.0 on x86 devices, we've also used the CISCO-provided
> 340/350 card drivers and those work fine, also.
>
> Can you get the serial debug messages? Perhaps the driver or the TCP/IP
> stack is telling you what's wrong, but you're not listening. You don't
have
> to do anything special to assign an Ethernet address to your CISCO
hardware
> do you? An invalid Enet address might cause you problems.
>
> Paul T.
>
> "Chris Adamson" <cadamson-spam-me-not-@lotsofspamidentecsolutions.com>
wrote
> in message news:eonI9USDEHA.3344@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Wow thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > We are actually having Advantech (http://www.advantech.com) build the
> image
> > for us. They have developed their own solution for persisting the
registry
> > and it appears that all the Cisco information is being stored (username,
> > password SSID etc). And it *does* leap authenticate upon reboot. We just
> > cannot get the device to take an IP address (manual or DHCP).
> >
> > We did add the registry key you suggested just to see if it would help.
> > After a reboot it did not make any difference. This key was not part of
> the
> > image build and we added it through the PC 104 itself via "regcedit".
> >
> > Paul, have you had success with integrating Cisco drivers?
> >
> > Has anyone successfully integrated Cisco drivers into an x86 CE .NET
> device?
> > If so we would really appreciate some help, hints contact info etc.
We've
> > hit this wall for two weeks now.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Chris
> >
> > "Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" <ptobey_no_spam@instrument_no_spam.com> wrote in
> > message news:eW40tFSDEHA.3836@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > The 'key' information for the authentication may be getting lost
during
> > the
> > > reboot because the object store is not persisted or something along
> those
> > > lines. We have to set the following registry entry on our devices in
> > order
> > > to make this type of thing work:
> > >
> > > ;021028_Q329102 - Platforms that use the object store registry and
> > implement
> > > ;a registry persistence solution using
> > > WriteRegistryToOEM/ReadRegistryFromOEM
> > > ;are unable to decrypt data in the registry that has been encrypted
> using
> > > Cryp
> > > ;ProtectData(). This is because the key files are stored in the file
> > system
> > > by
> > > ;default and there is no provision to restore these files on a cold
> boot.
> > >
> > > ;To enable this feature, the OEM needs to set the following registry
> key:
> > >
> > > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Init\BootVars]
> > > "MasterKeysInRegistry"=dword:1
> > >
> > > Paul T.
> > >
> > > "Chris Adamson" <cadamson-spam-me-not-@lotsofspamidentecsolutions.com>
> > wrote
> > > in message news:uPhcx%23RDEHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > We are having a problem building a Windows CE .NET 4.2 image on a
> PC104
> > > with
> > > > an x86 processor. The problem we are encountering is that we are
> trying
> > to
> > > > build into the image Cisco WLAN drivers w/LEAP so that the PC104 can
> > LEAP
> > > > authenticate onto the network (Air-PCM350 series). The unit will not
> > have
> > > a
> > > > keyboard, monitor, or mouse after it has been initially setup so all
> the
> > > > will be saved to the registry.
> > > > We've downloaded the latest x86 drivers (released this month) from
> Cisco
> > > and
> > > > extracted all the dll's, exe's and registry entries accordingly and
> > > included
> > > > them in the build.
> > > >
> > > > On first boot we enter in all the login info into the ACU utility
> > > including
> > > > login credentials, SSID, LEAP etc.. We also specify an IP number to
> the
> > > > Cisco Card. With all this set we can manually bring up the login
> module
> > > and
> > > > login. The ACU reports that the unit has authenticated. We can also
> > verify
> > > > that the radio has authenticated by checking the Access Point. The
> unit
> > > does
> > > > not however show an IP address whether we statically assign one try
to
> > get
> > > > one through DHCP.
> > > >
> > > > We tried rebooting the system and it does not automatically login
nor
> > does
> > > > it get an IP address via DHCP (IPCONFIG shows 0.0.0.0, "release" and
> > > "renew"
> > > > tried several times over).
> > > >
> > > > We are using the latest drivers from Cisco and the WLAN cards have
> been
> > > > updated to the latest firmware. The files for the build were
> extracted
> > > from
> > > > the CE.NET_x86.cab file downloaded from Cisco's website.
> > > >
> > > > We had no problems integrating our "Active RFID" PCMCIA reader's
> driver
> > > into
> > > > the build and were disappointed that the Cisco stuff is what has
been
> > > > holding us back ;)
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated as we are
> totally
> > > > stumped at the moment.
> > > >
> > > > If you have any contact info or would like to contact me directly
> please
> > > > remove the anti-spam letters from my email. Or via
> > > 183y67b02@sneakemail.com
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your time!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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