Oops! In my previous message I said to check the list of directories in the file manager but what I intended to say was to check for network to show up in the drive list there. Guess I need some more coffee or something.
Richard Ehrler
----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Ehrler <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:59:58 -0700 Subject: re: [Braillenote] ethernet card unreliability.
You didn't say how long you waited after turning on your note taker before attempting to access the network through the E-mail or web browser client. I use a Socket low power 10/100 ethernet card that has to be inserted in my Voice Note mPower before turning it on and ran into similar problems when I first started using it. I discovered that simply waiting a few seconds to hear the "network card recognized" message wasn't long enough. That initial message only indicates the note taker has found the card. You need to wait maybe thirty seconds to a minute longer for the card to actually negotiate its connection to the internet, or that has been my experience connecting to my router. You can tell when the connection is ready by going to the file menu and doing a directory check. Press space bar to move down the list of available directories to see if "network" has appeared yet. If it hasn't go back to the previous prompt and press space again after a short wait and you will probably hear network on the second pass unless your network is down. I use clearwire for my connection and have on occasion run into a situation where the network is down but that is fairly rare. Hope this helps. Richard Ehrler
----- Original Message ----- From: don cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Contribute Braillenote <[email protected] Date sent: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:04:55 +0000 Subject: [Braillenote] ethernet card unreliability.
I too have been experiencing this behaviour of my ethernet card. It is something that has crept in with recently issued upgrades. Until your message, I had thought it was just my Mpower that was effected. I even purchased a new ethernet card, believing my old one to have become faulty; an expensive diagnosis, for it behaves in the same way. I have discovered that sometimes a reset with dots 123 held down will do the trick; otherwise, I take out the ethernet card, put in a standard cf card. The Mpower will normally pick up this card. Once it has acknowledged it, the unit appears to also once again accept the ethernet card, but never with the unit turned on. Perhaps this will stabilise with future development. Don Cooper.
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