Re: [iPAQ] strongarm usb networking and Windows.

Nice workaround but not for the average Windows based PC user I fear.

Thanks anyway

Nick Bane

----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Smit" <zoiah@zoiah.net>
To: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>; "Nick Bane"
<nick@cecomputing.co.uk>
Cc: "ipaq list" <ipaq@handhelds.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [iPAQ] strongarm usb networking and Windows.

> What I did to get usbnet in Windows somewhat was installing Linux in a
> VMware 3.0 and forwarding the USB into the VMware. It worked for me. :)
>
> You do need to install the iPAQ in windows first, I just choose some
> incorrect driver. It doesn't matter if it has a ! sign in the device
> manager, as long as it's there you can forward it using VMware 3.x (2.x
and
> older don't work).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>
> To: "Nick Bane" <nick@cecomputing.co.uk>
> Cc: "ipaq list" <ipaq@handhelds.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] strongarm usb networking and Windows.
>
>
> > On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 05:47:28PM -0000, Nick Bane wrote:
> > > In all the traffic I have seen regarding USB networking with an iPaq,
> there
> > > is always the requirement for a Linux box as the master (and The
SA1110
> is
> > > only a slave).
> > >
> > > Our arm-linux strongarm products are being prototyped on h3150/h3600s
> and
> > > could use occasional network connectivity. It is a breeze to set up a
> Telnet
> > > session into a lightly loaded h3150 from a Linux PC.
> > >
> > > USB networking is such a useful facility that it seems surprising that
> there
> > > is no talk of a Windows USB network adaptor driver along the same
lines
> as
> > > the Linux one. Is there none available for Windows or have I just
failed
> to
> > > uncover it?
> >
> >
> > From poking around the 'net, it looks like what we'd need is a 'Remote
> > NDIS' driver that speaks usbnet protocol to the ipaq. What currently
> > happens on the windows end when you plug a lipaq in? Does it grab the
> > usb device id and try to load drivers to do activesync over USB?
> >
> > Ross
> > _______________________________________________
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> >
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 14 12:07:02 2002