WiFi tethering to WinMo phone

[cozzykim]

Hi all, I have searched but couldn't find anything 

I have an WinMo6.5 HTC HD2 with a neat "Wireless Router" app.

The "router" supplies internet access via the phone's HSDPA connection over an ad hoc wep connection.

This works fine with GF's Vista laptop but, although I can "see" the HD2 network SSID and have input the wep key (10 digits e.g. 1234567890) network centre tries to connect for about 30 secs and then says "connection failed"

My laptop T41, PCLOS 2009.2 fully upgraded to KDE4.3, connects fine to my WPA2 router.

I suspect it's an IP address request timeout or similar but the HD2 router app doesn't have any other configuration options other than SSID and Wep key.

Where should I be looking to find the connection problem?

Any help appreciated, I just want to get/send occasional email/attachments from my laptop on the move

Kim

[T6]

what driver is using your laptop wifi?

sometimes if it is using windows driver you can have problems with wep

some users changed the driver and it worked after that but that was long time ago

[cozzykim]

Hi and thanks for answering.

It's a ‎PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] card

and appears to be using the ipw220 driver

cat.....ifcfg-eth1 gives

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DEVICE=eth1                                                   
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=192.168.1.154
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
ONBOOT=yes
METRIC=35
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
USERCTL=yes
DNS1=192.168.1.1
RESOLV_MODS=no
WIRELESS_MODE=Managed
WIRELESS_ESSID="My wpa2 home SSID"
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=s:"My network key"
WIRELESS_WPA_DRIVER=wext
WIRELESS_WPA_REASSOCIATE=no
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6TO4INIT=yes
DHCP_CLIENT=dhclient
NEEDHOSTNAME=no
PEERDNS=yes
PEERYP=yes
PEERNTPD=no
Of course the machine is currently associated with my home wifi router not the HD2 AdHoc WEP router.

I've tried using Wicd as well but that won't connect to the HD2, (it also seems to remember and use the SSID of the last connected network, even when you select a different network ID  (so it says connecting to "Home" when I asked it to connect to "HD2"))