CompactFlash D-Link 802.11b & D-Link 802.11b card **Update** I got it working

[NFS4]

OK, I just got my D-Link CF 802.11b card from Circuit City for $89.99 - $40 MIR - $10 MIR = $39.99

And I'm gonna pick up the D-Link PCI 802.11b PCI card which will be on sale Sunday for $49.99 (plus, I have a $10 gift card with them) at OfficeMax.

Anyway, way back in January of '01, I had a Proxim Symphony 1 Mbps setup running on my iPAQ with a PCI card in my desktop and a PCMCIA card in my iPAQ. I didn't need to use an access point with the two. I was running Win2k with ICS enabled along with some kind of software that allowed me to route the internet through the two connections -- but I've forgotten what that software is. With this setup, I was able to surf the internet and do activesync wirelessly on my IPAQ through my desktop.

Now, a year and half later I have the two D-Link devices. I would I go about setting these up (without an accesspoint) in Ad-Hoc mode and still be able to surf the internet wirelessly on my Maestro using my desktop (with the PCI 802.11b card) as a gateway.

I'm running Windows XP Professional.

I'm sorry for this long and drawn out question, but I want to have all of my bases covered.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

The easiest way (though I hate to say it) is to use the built in "Network Setup" wizard. It can set up XP in a number of ways, either as a NAT gateway or a network bridge. It's by far the easiest way of doing it but it's very hard to tweak since XP then hides anything tweakable from the home user.

A Program such as Sygate Home Network would do the job nicely and give you more flexibility. That said, your question confused me slightly (hey, it's slightly past midnight in the UK and the coffee's wearing off...) Is it just the 2 PC's you want to network - one as the client, one as the server - or are the there more floating around somewhere?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
The easiest way (though I hate to say it) is to use the built in "Network Setup" wizard. It can set up XP in a number of ways, either as a NAT gateway or a network bridge. It's by far the easiest way of doing it but it's very hard to tweak since XP then hides anything tweakable from the home user.

A Program such as Sygate Home Network would do the job nicely and give you more flexibility. That said, your question confused me slightly (hey, it's slightly past midnight in the UK and the coffee's wearing off...) Is it just the 2 PC's you want to network - one as the client, one as the server - or are the there more floating around somewhere?

Sygate...that's the program I think I was using Thanks

Ohh, this is the setup I will be using:

1) My desktop PC with a D-Link PCI 802.11b card with a broadband connection via my D-Link PCI 10/100 NIC
2) My Audivox Maestro PocketPC (PDA) with a D-Link CompactFlash 802.11b card

So ICS will be connection the 10/100 NIC in my PC to the 802.11b PCI NIC also in my PC. I want to be able to hook into that loop with my PDA.

They will be connected via Ad-Hoc and I want to be able to surf the net on the Maestro using the desktop as a gateway.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Aha, I'd never heard of an Audiovox Maestro and that was confusing me.
Windows XP has build in NAT capabilites that do pretty much everything sygate does but for free. It's really a question of how much you want to be able to tweak it.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
Aha, I'd never heard of an Audiovox Maestro and that was confusing me.
Windows XP has build in NAT capabilites that do pretty much everything sygate does but for free. It's really a question of how much you want to be able to tweak it.

So is it pretty much self explanatory to setup within XP? If so, that'd be great since XP has built in 802.11b support

 

[Woodchuck2000]

If you go into "Network Connections" theres an icon to "Setup a home or office network" which does everything you need. I'd like to try and figure out exactly where microsoft has hidden the options that would allow me to set it up manually but as yet I've had no success. Just be warned, it changes your LAN IP address to 192.168.0.1/24 and enables a little DHCP server. This probably won't cause a problem but it's worth a warning. All you need to do on any clients is to enable DHCP on their interface and they should work.

 

[Adul]

click on your dial up adapter and click the advancd properties. check mark the check box for internet sharing. Could not be any easier.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
If you go into "Network Connections" theres an icon to "Setup a home or office network" which does everything you need. I'd like to try and figure out exactly where microsoft has hidden the options that would allow me to set it up manually but as yet I've had no success. Just be warned, it changes your LAN IP address to 192.168.0.1/24 and enables a little DHCP server. This probably won't cause a problem but it's worth a warning. All you need to do on any clients is to enable DHCP on their interface and they should work.

Hmmm, my IP Address at school is 152.xxx.x or something like that.

Anyway, thanks guys

 

[JKing76]

As sort of a followup:

Would there be any problem running three or more 802.11b wireless devices (desktop, laptop, PDA), all in adhoc mode, with one of them (the desktop) sharing a wired Internet connection? If everything is in adhoc mode, will they still figure out which machine is acting as the server / pseudo-access-point?

 

[Woodchuck2000]

Running in Ad-Hoc mode only provides a physical link. Client/server settings are determined by how you configure the devices (IP addresses, default gateways, DNS servers etc)

 

[NFS4]

Well, I got the two cards.

The D-Link PCI card is in my desktop and is online.
I also have the D-Link CF in my PDA.

I can get a signal on my PDA from from the deskop unit, but I can't get any kind of network activity. I'm completely lost

Both are in Ad-Hoc mode...I can't even ping from one to another.

The Wireless in my desktop has an IP of 192.168.0.1
My PDA keeps an IP of 169.254.218.103

 

[vetteguy]

Sorry to ask an obvious question, but are you using the same SSID on both devices? And do you have any kind of encryption enabled? I highly recommend you get the program called vxutil here It is very handy for troubleshooting networking problems on a Pocket PC. I have a lot of PPC network experience (read: I've seen a lot of problems) so feel free to PM me if you need more help.

 

[Czar]

screw all the other routing software, you want winroute

http://www.kerio.com/us/wrp_home.html
The best windows router ever!!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: vetteguy
Sorry to ask an obvious question, but are you using the same SSID on both devices? And do you have any kind of encryption enabled? I highly recommend you get the program called vxutil here It is very handy for troubleshooting networking problems on a Pocket PC. I have a lot of PPC network experience (read: I've seen a lot of problems) so feel free to PM me if you need more help.

Yes, they both have the same SSID

 

[Adul]

sounds like dchp isnt working.

manually hard code on IP on your PDA to something in the same range 192.168.0.x where X > 1

 

[NFS4]

Still no go...here's my thread over at Brighthand:

http://discussion.brighthand.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56987

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Well, I got the two cards.

The D-Link PCI card is in my desktop and is online.
I also have the D-Link CF in my PDA.

I can get a signal on my PDA from from the deskop unit, but I can't get any kind of network activity. I'm completely lost

Both are in Ad-Hoc mode...I can't even ping from one to another.

The Wireless in my desktop has an IP of 192.168.0.1
My PDA keeps an IP of 169.254.218.103

The 169 ip address means the PDA is using DHCP (ugh) and cannot find a dhcp server.

 

[Czar]

nfs4
btw, winroute has a built in dhcp server

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: NFS4
Well, I got the two cards.

The D-Link PCI card is in my desktop and is online.
I also have the D-Link CF in my PDA.

I can get a signal on my PDA from from the deskop unit, but I can't get any kind of network activity. I'm completely lost

Both are in Ad-Hoc mode...I can't even ping from one to another.

The Wireless in my desktop has an IP of 192.168.0.1
My PDA keeps an IP of 169.254.218.103

The 169 ip address means the PDA is using DHCP (ugh) and cannot find a dhcp server.

Yep, when my cable goes out the cable modem gets an I.P. address starting with 169.

 

[NFS4]

I got it to working. Turns out ZoneAlarm was blocking the Maestro so I couldn't ping. I just had to set up a trusted Zone. Everything is smooth now

 

[vetteguy]

Glad that you got it working...damn that zone alarm!