June 2008 Entries

Erroneous Bluetooth license expired message on Pocket PC
I received the following lolcat 'esque message on my pocket pc the other day. "Bluetooth can no longer be used because the license is expired." This apparently is a known Bluetooth software bug on ppc. The way I fixed this issue is quite drastic, what I did was I backup all my data to my device storage, reflash my ROM with a clean windows mobile 2003 image, then restored all data from backup. I did have problems getting my ppc to accept the image and had to resort to mtty to initiate bootloader commands....

Posted On Friday, June 20, 2008 9:46 PM | Feedback (3)

MacBook AirPort and wireless router 64-bit WEP key
I spent a while trying to figure out this problem so I thought I'd post this tip to help others who may have the same issue. The problem I had was trying to connect a MacBook to a wireless router which uses 64-bit WEP key. The AirPort prompt on the Mac wasn't very helpful, giving only 3 options for WEP key (WEP Password, WEP 128 bit HEX and ASCII). I chose WEP Password and entered the 64-bit WEP HEX key and unbeknownst to me, Mac did not understand this key and cannot connect to the wireless router....

Posted On Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:19 PM | Feedback (9)