Thursday, June 21, 2007

Google Maps and ASP.NET @ SYS-CON BELGIUM

A good dotNet API wrapper to use google maps from within dotnet http://be.sys-con.com/read/171162_1.htm

Google Maps API Docs here

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Mobile connect on Vista kills normal wireless/ethernet access - eXpansys UK

Ive installed Vista Business on a Toshiba M400 and then put the Vodafone Mobile connect drivers (VMC_R9.1.0.4345) onto my machine and now have severe network problems.

DHCP will not work on either the wireless to cabled LAN. Even if you put a fixed address with vaild DNS entries in the DNS wont resolve. You can ping the external DNS server but you cant get nslookup to resolve at all. I thought it might be firewall related but its not.

Suplimental work around
It would appear that this is related to Vista patching, or the lack thereof.

Initially I installed the 3G drivers on a clean Vista with no connection to the Internet and no patches installed which gave me the problems.

Installing the 3G drivers onto a fully patched Vista install works ok

Tuesday, June 05, 2007