Axim X51v wireless connectivity problem

[musicgold]

Hi,

My Dell Axim X51v was working fine in terms of wireless connectivity until a few days back. When I would try to connect to a new wireless network, it would ask me the password for the new network. Now it doesn’t connect to any network. What could have gone wrong?

Here are the symptoms I am observing.

1. The connectivity icon (two opposite facing arrows) at the top right corner of the screen includes a cross mark (x) (to the left of the speaker and time).

2. The Site tab of the WLAN utility shows all wireless networks nearby, however nothing happens if I click on any of them. Also the Status box on the tab shows ‘scanning network.’

3. On the Config tab of the WLAN utility, the Pref SSId and BSSId fields are blank. The signal quality box is empty, and a No Signal text is on.

4. In the advanced tab: Authentication = Open System, IP address =0.0.0.0, Net Mask =0.0.0.0. The MAC address of the device is shown.


Thanks,

MG.

[AnswerDude]

Did you soft reset it?

[musicgold]

AnswerDude,

Yes. I gave it soft resets several times.
Also one more fact. The LED at the top right, flashes green light.

Thanks.

[AnswerDude]

Are you using the built-in wifi or wifi card? And what wifi software you are using to connect? I'm not sure Odyssey client has release/renew ip features. There is a freeware, vxIPConfig
http://www.cam.com/vxipconfig.html
that will let you release and renew tcp/ip.

And Few things that sometimes works with older WM devices.

1. Remove the battery for a few seconds then put it back.
2. Open File Explorer on the PDA, browse to Windows folder, locate Welcome.exe and click it. It will reset several network connection settings and take you to initialize screens (re-align screen, ...), then you can reconfigure all the settings.

If all else fails then back up your data and do a hard reset.