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jda5id · 03-01-03, 10:09 AM

Hank

I just played with this some more this morning (for the first time in a while) and I was able to get things communicating. Here is exactly what I did and the issues that I saw.

On the laptop (This is a Win2000 machine with a DLink WiFi card)
* Configure the network connection on the laptop to use a static IP address (I used 192.168.0.2)
* Use Ipconfig to verify that the IP address is as expected
* Configure my WiFi card as following - SSID = "TEST", Mode = "802.11 Ad Hoc", WEP = disabled
* Add a user to the system that has the same name as my Axim (no password for this user)
* Create a share on the laptop that the user above has access to

On the Axim (I am using a Linksys WCF12)
* Configured the network setting for the WCF12 to use a specific IP address (I used 192.168.0.3)
* Configured the WCF12 settings to have SSID = "Test", Mode - "802.11 Ad Hoc", WEP = disabled
* SOFT RESET
* VxUtil to verify the IP address (this is freeware, search the forums and you can find a link to it)

I cannot verify an internet connection because my laptop won't support my WiFi card and an Ethernet card simultaneously. However, I was able to verify a successful connection. What I did was use Total Commander on the Axim (freeware, you can search to find a link) to connect to the shared folder I created on the laptop. I did this with the format \\<machinename>\<sharename>. Once I connected to the share I was able to open a text file that was on the laptop and view its contents. I added some text to the file and saved it, and then when I viewed the file on the laptop verified that my changes (made with the Axim) had been saved. Yes, it doesn't prove an internet connection, but I would venture that if you can get this far than an Internet connection isn't far off (you just have to get internet connection sharing configured correctly on the laptop)

This didn't work right off the bat for me until I got really careful about following this process exactly. The soft reset of the Axim after the configuration seemed helpful in ensuring that my changes had been made and earlier settings "flushed out." The one piece of flakiness I saw was that Total Commander didn't like mapping to my laptop using its IP address, it would only work with the machine name. This is true whether I am in ad hoc or infrastructure mode though so I think it is just a Total Commander "feature."

Hopefully something in all of this will be helpful for you, but rest assured, it is possible to do what you want to do if you can just get everything configured correctly.

03-01-03, 10:09 AM	#7 (permalink)
jda5id Aximsite Minor League Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Texas, USA Posts: 189 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hank I just played with this some more this morning (for the first time in a while) and I was able to get things communicating. Here is exactly what I did and the issues that I saw. On the laptop (This is a Win2000 machine with a DLink WiFi card) * Configure the network connection on the laptop to use a static IP address (I used 192.168.0.2) * Use Ipconfig to verify that the IP address is as expected * Configure my WiFi card as following - SSID = "TEST", Mode = "802.11 Ad Hoc", WEP = disabled * Add a user to the system that has the same name as my Axim (no password for this user) * Create a share on the laptop that the user above has access to On the Axim (I am using a Linksys WCF12) * Configured the network setting for the WCF12 to use a specific IP address (I used 192.168.0.3) * Configured the WCF12 settings to have SSID = "Test", Mode - "802.11 Ad Hoc", WEP = disabled * SOFT RESET * VxUtil to verify the IP address (this is freeware, search the forums and you can find a link to it) I cannot verify an internet connection because my laptop won't support my WiFi card and an Ethernet card simultaneously. However, I was able to verify a successful connection. What I did was use Total Commander on the Axim (freeware, you can search to find a link) to connect to the shared folder I created on the laptop. I did this with the format \\<machinename>\<sharename>. Once I connected to the share I was able to open a text file that was on the laptop and view its contents. I added some text to the file and saved it, and then when I viewed the file on the laptop verified that my changes (made with the Axim) had been saved. Yes, it doesn't prove an internet connection, but I would venture that if you can get this far than an Internet connection isn't far off (you just have to get internet connection sharing configured correctly on the laptop) This didn't work right off the bat for me until I got really careful about following this process exactly. The soft reset of the Axim after the configuration seemed helpful in ensuring that my changes had been made and earlier settings "flushed out." The one piece of flakiness I saw was that Total Commander didn't like mapping to my laptop using its IP address, it would only work with the machine name. This is true whether I am in ad hoc or infrastructure mode though so I think it is just a Total Commander "feature." Hopefully something in all of this will be helpful for you, but rest assured, it is possible to do what you want to do if you can just get everything configured correctly. Last edited by jda5id; 03-01-03 at 10:14 AM.