Re: IE and Windows Mobile 5
- From: TimPowell <TimPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 05:16:03 -0700
I'm not trying to get to the Internet. The linux "box" is really an embedded
device with a linux kernel. It is running a webpage. When the interface
comes "up" on my linux "box", I manually configure it to have an ip address
of 169.254.2.2. From the "box", I can ping the PDA which I gave an address
of 169.254.2.1. On the PDA I can ping as well. Using minimo, if I give the
address http://169.254.2.2 our custom web page comes up. With IE, it won't
connect, always giving me the error that my connection settings are wrong.
I have the same setup on an actual linux PC as my embedded device and I'm
running an FTP server on the actual linux PC. The only way I can connect to
the ftp server with FTP is if
1.) Odccm is running (linux equivalent of activesync) Upon connection the
network
icon will become connected.
2.) I have it configured so that my "private network" connects to an ISP.
The distinction between "private network" and "work network" isn't real
apparant either.
3.) The rndis host conncetion on the PDA I manually assign an IP address,
since I've determined that upon connection it tries to DHCP out to the
server, which I haven't set up on that interface.
Oh yea, and a hard reset doesn't help. :)
-Tim
"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:
Despite what "Mr. Helpful" says, this isn't a problem where Microsoft.
specifically tried to prevent you from working in this configuration. The
problem is that, when you plugged in that device, which acts like a network
adapter, you created a new, small network consisting of just the Linux box
and the mobile device. In order to reach outside sites from the Windows
Mobile device, you need to configure the Linux box to route traffic through
from the WM device to the Internet (presumably connected to another network
adapter on the Linux box).
I don't *think* that this is related to ActiveSync, since you're able to
ping the Linux box. Would I be correct in guessing that you can't ping from
the WM device to the *gateway* which the Linux box uses to get to the
Internet?
Paul T.
"TimPowell" <TimPowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:24999B17-3D74-4FEF-80D2-F2567B390A8E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I have an Archer PDA that I am connecting to a linux box through the USB
rndis miniport. Once connected, I am able to ping the PDA from the linux
box, also from the PDA using minimo, go to webpages that are running on a
builtin webserver running on the Linux box.
If I try to use Internet Explorer, it says I am not connected. My guess
is
because I am not running any activesync daemon on the linux box. SyncE is
the
equivalent version of this but assume for now I cannot run this on the
linux
box.
My question is there must be some way to tell IE to not check to see if
there is an activesync connection to work. Whats also dumb is that if I
have
a cached webpage open in IE, clicking on links will work. Its only when I
try to type in a new address and hit enter, it says not connected and
will
not even attempt to send an IP message.
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