Re: [iPAQ] How to connect a Linux handhelds to a Windows desktop?

From: David Tauriainen <djtavria.a.t.iupui.edu>
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 11:38:42 EDT

tian tao wrote:
> Hi,
> Thanks for your help very much, but I am not very suuccessful with
> creating a usb-networking follow the instructions of
> http://people.via.ecp.fr/~clem/nist/ipaq.php#t3.2
> My desktop is RedHat9.0 with linux kernel 2.4.20. My ipaq is H3900
> with familiar 0.7.2 installed. My aim is to connect my ipaq and desktop
> with usb-network. So I did as following to fowllow the instructions:
> 1. I type " insmod netusb " on the pc.
> 2. I connect ipaq and pc with usb-wire, then I can see from the ipaq
> that the ip address of ipaq is initialed to 192.168.0.202 and the
> gateway is 192.168.0.200. I checked the /dev with " ls /dev/usb* ",
> but there is not a /dev/usb0 interface as I expected.
> 3. I type "/sbin/ifconfig -a" on pc, it just shows some information.
> 4. I type "ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200" on pc, it warned " no such
> device"
>
> What I am doing is just following the instrctions of
> http://people.via.ecp.fr/~clem/nist/ipaq.php#t3.2, it didn't work
> successfually, I think I must have some thing wrong. Can anyone help me
> to point out my fault and give me some advice? Thank you!
> Thankx again for reading me and hope the suggestion from you.
> Yours,
> TianTao

For Redhat 9.0 & 3900's, you will need to edit a file in the kernel
source tree (usbnet.c) and recompile the usbnet kernel module.
specifically, make sure that
#define CONFIG_USB_PXA
exists so that your module supports 3900's.

-David
Received on Mon Sep 13 11:39:48 2004

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