I cannot select an Ethernet interface

[Colin Messer]

I have set-up a wireless network using a Buffalo AirStation wireless cable router connected to blueyonder and an AirStation PC Card (WLI-PCM-L11GP). The wireless network is faultless when the card is in a laptop running XP, but I am having problems with my netBook.

I have created a new Ethernet setting called Buffalo based on the 802_11-Lucent setting
Configuration Settings: DHCP
Hostname: netBook
Device: Lucent WaveLAN / Orinoco Card

Everything else is left as default.

When I try to access the internet I get the “Connect to Internet” dialogue, but the “To Internet service” list does not include Buffalo.

Have I forgotten to do something in the set-up? Could my PCMCIA socket be dead? I have read and followed the netBook “Ethenet Support User Guide” as well as Diem’s EPOC FAQ. I am a week older and a little more knowlegable about WiFi, but no near my goal.

Any help is appreciated.

Regards
Colin

[donkeyontheedge]

Hi Colin - looks like I have a very similar set-up to yourself.

It's strange though as when I connect to the internet, I get a big list of options regardless of whether or not I have the buffalo card inserted - it still appears as an option on my connect list. I basically get my 3 dial up entries plus the default four ethernet entries.

If I choose an ethernet option, the modem options grey out and are not accessible.

I guess I will state the obvious and ask that you are running OS release 158 and you have tried a soft reset?

John

[Colin Messer]

The obvious is what I'm looking for :) . Since day one I have never seen the ethernet options in the "To Internet service" I assumed that I needed to insert a PC card to activate the setting.

Yes I'm running 158, it's an American netBook running an UK OS. The netBook has the latest revison of the motherboard. I tried a soft reset (SysBack is a long time friend).

I could try loading the US OS but I don't think it would make a difference to ethernet.

More obvious suggestions welcome.

Colin

[PlutoPants]

Hi,
My netbook had similar problems and I had to reset all my ethernet connections recently. The following might help:
In Control Panel: Ethernet Settings:
I had to set up a Manual IP address (eg 10.0.0.7) even though my router does DHCP and other computers are accepted.
I had to set up a default gateway (eg 10.0.0.2) as the IP address of my router.

In Control Panel: Internet:
Service Tab: Set up a 'Dummy' service:
Connection type: Direct
Account Tab: Manual login
Addresses Tab: both IP & DNS ticked
Login Tab: nothing
Advanced Tab: Allow Plain Text Authentication

I played and played until it worked. I think we've had a similar discussion before in this forum. Why I need to manually set up things I do not know.
I needed to make sure my manual IP number did not clash with any other machines on my WiFi network.
Good luck! HTH
George:)

[Colin Messer]

Thank your for your suggestions.

I now have ethernet settings defined for both Manual and DHCP. I tried entering the IP address for my netBook on the network and the router (gateway).

No ethernet services appear that I can select from the "Connect to Internet" dialogue. I get the services defined in Control Panel-Internet. That seem reasonable as ethernet is the medium not the service.

Adding an internet service didn't make any difference; though it did show up in the internet services.

I searched the archive for entries including the work "ethernet", lots of threads, but I found none that dealt with this problem.

My only remaining thought is to hard reset, reload OS 1.05(450) rel 158. and start from scratch. If I were to do this, having entered no settings at any point, and then attempted to access the internet should the existing ethernet settings (802_11-Lucent, irLAN, LAN, rLAN) appear in "To Internet service" selection list of the "Connect to Enternet" dialogue?

Yours, ever more confused,
Colin

[Colin Messer]

The hard reset fixed the problem. The ethernet setting now appear in the "Connect to Ethernet" dialogue. Why they didn't continues to be a mistery.

I selected the default 802_11-Lucent driver settings and connected straight away :cool: . Now where did I put that back-up ...

Thanks again for your help.

Colin

[donkeyontheedge]

Colin,
Glad it is all sorted now - see how much better your netBook feels over a WiFi link!

Enjoy

John

[Colin Messer]

As a final close, this problem has been covered before in this forum in May this year, and is caused by the TCPIP.PRT file from the GPRS update.
Remove the TCPIP.PRT and ethernet setting reappear. To use WAP over GPRS put the TCPIP.PRT file back.

Colin