Turning on Wireless

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glenn

I have a project that utilizes the wireless features of the PDA. I need to
know if there is a way that I can turn the wireless access on and off in
case the user forgets to. The program is an inventory control system in
which they take inventory on the PDA and then at some point sync it to the
master database over the network. But the users are in most cases not that
computer savy and I'd rather not rely on them if possible.

Thanks,

glenn
 
its wifi... All of the PDA's will be Dell Axim with built in wireless or
iPacs with built in wireless...

glenn
 
I think that the first step is to figure out how, exactly, that particular
device is "turning off" the networking. There is no standard API for doing
that, although there are multiple ways to do it. They might be setting a
flag in the registry for the NDIS miniport driver for the WiFi hardware that
indicates disabled. This would be the same as choosing Disable from the
Network and DialUp Connections Control Panel applet.

They might be doing something completely different even from that, however,
and you need to know what it is before you can decide whether you can turn
it back on, again, or not. If they have an API, you might check on their
Web site, you may be able to just call that.

Paul T.
 
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