Hi totco,
I posted these direction on the epod Yahoo grop site. I was able to get a Netgear 802.11b MA401 V2.5 card running. The Netgear card uses the Prism2 chip set so if the Dlink DWL650 Vp1 card also uses the Prism2 chip set these direction s may also work for you or after reading them you figure out how to get the Prism2ForWinCE2dll to work.
1> Go to this site to get SP15585.exe
http://www5.compaq.com/support/files/15501.html
2> You will run this exectable on your PC and it will unpack a SETUP211.EXE on your PC.
3> Startup Active Sync and run SETUP211.EXE on the PC and it will install some Compaq drivers onto the epod
4> Using Regedit on the epod, I went to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Drivers/PCMCIA/Compaq-WL100_11Mbps_Wireless_PC_Card-8147
At this location I noticed that:
Miniport = WL100
Prefix = NDS
Dll = NDIS.Dll
5> On my PC, I went into RegEdit and did a search for Netgear and found an entry that referred to the card as:
PCMCIA\NETGEAR_MA401RA_WIRELESS_PC-CARD-5CA0\1
6> Back to the epod, I went ahead and truncated the "\1" and created a new key called:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Drivers/PCMCIA/NETGEAR_MA401RA_WIRELESS_PC-CARD-5CA0
7> I then added the strings to the key:
Miniport = WL100
Prefix = NDS
Dll = NDIS.Dll
8> I turned off the epod, plugged in the Netgear MA401 and turned it on.
9> Up came the network config box and it identified the card as a Compaq WL100 11Mps. I chose DHCP and continued on and never got a
connection.
10> I attepted a soft reset and no connection.
11> I then went into Control Panel/Network and selected the Compaq WL100, turned off DHCP and put in a static IP Address, SubNet Mask and Default Gateway and then my DNS servers.
12> Clicked Ok and thought that I really should just go to sleep about now. Did a soft reset for good measure and BANG....I had the internet...OWOWOWOWOWOWOW
Hope this helps. Let me know if you encounter any probblems I would be glad to help out.
-Tim
