Internet access via Palm

[Lisandro Weissheimer]

Richard,

It doesnt work for me.

I don't have /dev/ttyUSB1 and in the Palm the message I got is:

Error: PPP timeout (0x1231).

Thanks
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Richard Mancusi wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2007 7:54 PM, Richard Mancusi <vrman49 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all!
>>>
>>> I want to access internet in my Palm using my notebook's internet
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> My Palm is being recognized in usb:. I can sync perfectly with JPilot.
>>>
>>> I think I should enable a pppd daemon but don't know to do this and get
>>> it working.
>>>
>>> Can somebody help me?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>> --
>>> ___________________________________
>>> Lisandro Weissheimer
>>> (51) 8414-7715
>>> lisandro at weissheimer.eti.br
>>> http://www.weissheimer.eti.br
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>>> ___________________________________
>> I didn't know the answer to your question so I forwarded your
>> email to someone I thought would.  His reply follows:
>>
>> ----------
>> I hadn't done this in years.  I just tried it and it works.
>>
>> He doesn't say what Palm he has.  The Treo's network connection is a
>> little different.
>>
>> On the Palm in Prefs->Network create a new service and call it Unix.
>> The connection should be cradle/cable.  The user name is the name of a
>> login on the PC.  The password is the password.  Under advanced the
>> script should be blank.
>>
>> On the Palm try to connect in Prefs->Network to get /dev/ttyUSB1
>> created.  Then on the PC do:
>>
>> On the PC I had to do a "modprobe visor" since Ubuntu uses libusb now.
>> Type "pppd /dev/ttyUSB1 19200 {your machine name, or IP}:{An IP to
>> assign to the Palm} local persist passive silent proxyarp noauth
>>
>> i.e. pppd /dev/ttyUSB1 19200 192.168.1.1:192.168.1.5 local persist
>> passive silent proxyarp noauth
>> ----------
>>
>> hth
>> -rich
>>
> 
> I think I got his interest.  He just replied with this additional info:
> 
> ----------
> I first tried hitting my internal web server which worked fine.  I'm
> having trouble getting out of the network from the Palm.  Its probably
> my firewall.
> 
> If you leave the noauth off of the pppd you can run it as a user and not
> with sudo, or root.  The older Palms didn't have a place for a password,
> so I had that in my old script.  Also, the 19200 is not needed for USB.
> ----------
> 
> -rich
>