How does WZC use the connection manager?

In WM5 if I disable WZC and then use Ndisuio to connect to a wireless
network, even though I connect and get an IP address, can ping web
sites, I still cannot use pocket explorer to surf the web. The
connection manager complains that no connection is available. This used
to work in PPC 2003 with no other steps required. So something has
changed. I reckon that when WZC connects to a network it calls
ConnMgrEstablishConnection in Cellcore.dll to notify it that the wifi
connection is available, and then I am assuming that it changes the
icon in the task tray to the 2 arrows. I have tried calling
ConnMgrEstablishConnection as follows but to no avail:

CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO info = new
CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO();
info.cbSize = sizeof(CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO);
info.dwParams = 1;
info.dwPriority = 0x08000;
info.bDisabled = false;
info.bExclusive = false;
info.dwFlags = 0;
info.guidDestNet = new
Guid("436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572");
uint code = ConnMgrEstablishConnection(info, new
IntPtr());

Does anyone have any info on how I can get pocket explorer to recognise
my manually made wifi connection?

I have the same problem and fixed it with some registry "hacks" after
observing registry changes during regular connection via WZC.
I didn't find a way to do this more elegantly

Note that TIACXWLN1 = your Wi-Fi device name & "yourap" = AP SSID you
connected to.


CRegKey key;
CString val;

OSVERSIONINFO osVer;

GetVersionEx(&osVer);
if (osVer.dwMajorVersion < 5)
{
key.Create(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
_T("SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\ConnMgr\\Providers\\{EF097F4C-DC4B-4c98-8FF6-AEF805DC0E8E}\\HTTP-{ADB0B001-10B5-3F39-27C6-9742E785FCD4}"));

val = "{18AD9FBD-F716-ACB6-FD8A-1965DB95B814}";

key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("SrcId"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();
}
else
{
key.Create(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
_T("Comm\\ConnMgr\\Providers\\{EF097F4C-DC4B-4c98-8FF6-AEF805DC0E8E}\\HTTP-{ADB0B001-10B5-3F39-27C6-9742E785FCD4}"));

val = "{ADB0B001-10B5-3F39-27C6-9742E785FCD4}";

key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("SrcId"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();

key.Close();

key.Create(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
_T("Comm\\ConnMgr\\Providers\\{f792e23c-dc19-4668-9be4-f8688b4c18d6}\\TIACXWLN1"));

val = _T("TIACXWLN1");
key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("Adapter"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();

key.SetValue(1, _T("AlwaysOn"));

val = _T("{DC427712-CE2D-D5D9-C2CD-8A8B1FF6C4CF}");
key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("ConnectionGUID"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();

val = _T("{ADB0B001-10B5-3F39-27C6-9742E785FCD4}");
key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("DestId"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();

key.SetValue(0xffffffff, _T("Secure"));

key.SetValue((DWORD) 0, _T("SecureLevel"));

key.Close();

key.Create(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
_T("Comm\\ConnMgr\\Providers\\{f792e23c-dc19-4668-9be4-f8688b4c18d6}\\TIACXWLN1\\{g942c53d-dc19-4668-9be4-f8791b4c18d6}\\Default"));

val = _T("yourap");
key.SetValue(val.GetBuffer(0), _T("Default"));
val.ReleaseBuffer();
}

key.Close();


<indiekiduk.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1147666369.302651.133110@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> In WM5 if I disable WZC and then use Ndisuio to connect to a wireless
> network, even though I connect and get an IP address, can ping web
> sites, I still cannot use pocket explorer to surf the web. The
> connection manager complains that no connection is available. This used
> to work in PPC 2003 with no other steps required. So something has
> changed. I reckon that when WZC connects to a network it calls
> ConnMgrEstablishConnection in Cellcore.dll to notify it that the wifi
> connection is available, and then I am assuming that it changes the
> icon in the task tray to the 2 arrows. I have tried calling
> ConnMgrEstablishConnection as follows but to no avail:
>
> CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO info = new
> CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO();
> info.cbSize = sizeof(CONNMGR_CONNECTIONINFO);
> info.dwParams = 1;
> info.dwPriority = 0x08000;
> info.bDisabled = false;
> info.bExclusive = false;
> info.dwFlags = 0;
> info.guidDestNet = new
> Guid("436EF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572");
> uint code = ConnMgrEstablishConnection(info, new
> IntPtr());
>
> Does anyone have any info on how I can get pocket explorer to recognise
> my manually made wifi connection?
>