[Shift General] aprach:
Silence means either I'm alone with the problem or there are others but no solution found

I did some progress yesterday and GOT MY WLAN working fine now. I've been trying to play with HTC Marvell driver folders content as despite of WLAN setup file there are other toolkits attached by HTC. IT's not ideal and does enable WIFI fine but enables BT as well however BT device cannot find any other devices - later down below about BT.

PLS READ THIS FIRST BEFORE YOU TRY, it's just my observation and may be only my case.

If you guys have the same experience with WLAN device as I do please try to do following, it helped in my case and now have all WLAN and BT enabled and visible in Vista SP1 after sleep/restart, whatever.

1. My Vista config is as follows:

- SP1 installed (eng)

- all updates installed from Microsoft Update

- all HTC drivers installed except Vitakey which I hear on other threads is causing some headaches.

* although I have all above installed I don;t think it;s a prerequisite. You only need latest Marvell drivers from HTC website.

2. Pls note, although latest Marvell WLAN drivers are installed I used to see no devices.

3. I've described what is a behaviour when I install drivers, devices appear for a few seconds on the list and dissapear at the end of installation.

4. So I went to WLAN folder /Wifidrvpatch/TOOLKITS and found HTCMEDIA.INI file with number of commands.

5. At the end of the file you can find three commands related to ECTKit.exe and vcpj_TSinstall.exe

6. What I did yesterday what enabled my devices? Started to launch them to see what will happen.

I launched three application but I'm not sure which one helped, my devices started to apeparing on th list after ECTKit.exe with one of parameters added.

7. Launch Device Manager and expand Network adapters. Right click on desktop 'My computer' and choose 'Manage'. From the list then choose 'Device Manager'. IF you don't see NEtwork adapters on the list it's probably same as in my case. go to next step.

8. Click Start->Run->cmd

change your path (using 'cd' command) to be in marvellwifi/wifidrvpatch/toolkits/tool where ECTKit.exe is located.

Launch ECTKit.exe by typing ECTKit.exe /EnableAllDevice

after that my devices appeared on the list.

As I said I launched three execs this evening. First was vcpj_TSinstall.exe (then clicked on install) but haven't noticed any change, dvices were hidden and shift was not much busy with this exec. Second I launched ECTKit.exe /RestoreAllDevice (Still no devices on the list BUT I've noticed Computer Management tool (the one you've opened to see devices) has indicated under 'System Tools->'EVent Viewer' -> 'Windows Logs' -> 'Security' that one of sys files is not loaded due to hash issue. IT's called CCDEVIO.sys and used to fail EVERYTIME when I tried to install MArvell drivers before (have checked logs history).

As the third command launched was ECTKit.exe /EnableAllDevice and this one helped.

What I suspect in my case CCDEVIO.sys may be causing problems but not sure. For example this sys file is trying to be loaded when I open WindowsMediaPlayer and fails as well so I'm not sure. Anyway that's the only misbehaviour I've noticed related to drivers installation.

Now about BT. It's also enabled. Got access to all functions, etc but there are two problems with BT.

1. My shift cannot find any other BT devices but can be found by my HTC Kaiser with no problems (still with limited number of services shared).

2. BT blue LED under the display flashes all the time now :o) Well even if I disable BT Radio device and other BT related it does still blinks :o) Well I don;t care anyway at least got it visible and can play further to force it to work. It';s still better than not having it at all.

LAst but not least this trick has not helped to frozen Shift Control Center tool. It freezes if I want to Turn ON/OFF WIFI/BT for coupel of minutes, then indicated device is ON or OFF, I can close it but it does not communicate with devices at all - meaning if I turn my WLAN ON thru control center it's not turning ON. Need to go to Network Adapters window under NEtwork Sharing Center and simply enable it. It's till fine as shagctrl sucks anyway, no brightness can be adjusted and when I try to access Settings, after 10-20 seconds got message 'Get EC firmware version failed' and settings opens (this error was observed even after my Vist agot hard reset some time ago and even after I installed latest EC drivers from HTC site)...

I'm not sure how HTC tests their drivers in testing environment but they probably outsource it to well known business oriented countries :o)

Sorry for long story but maybe it will help some of you. I'm damn happy got my WIFI working as do not need BT for now :)