Thanks for your detailed answer! Also had the usbnet connection to my pc running once.. but as you mentioned, the usbnet module on the pc-side does not load correctly anymore.. I have to take a look at that. But as the idea was to connect the zaurus directly (over the usb hub) to the cable modem, I probably do not even need to worry about this problem. With this setup, no additional (noisy) pc needs to be running to have a wlan access-point (small Ad-Hoc network). 'route' is available on openzaurus and I just installed 'iptables' binaries (which to my astonishment seem to work right away :-o ) If the external usb hub is not an issue, I should be able to set up the connection using route and iptables (need to buy a hub..) greets
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 14:49:48 -0500 "Kevin J. Cummings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonas Ruesch wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > I would like to use my PDA (Sharp Zaurus 5500) at home as wireless LAN router (it > > has a wireless CF card and put in its docking station there is ethernet over usb > > available). The banal problem is, I need to connect two male usb plugs (from the > > cable modem and from the docking station). So a usb hub would be a solution. > > It should be doable, *if* you don't mind going into the Zaurus and > editing the appropriate wireless config files so that the wireless LAN > will route to the USBnet one. Basically, you'll need to configure the > Linux on the PDA to route between the wireless and the USB networks. In > theory, it should work fine if you confiure it right. B^) > > > My (maybe somewhat silly) question is.. > > > > i) does ethernet over usb work over a usb hub (getting an IP with a dhcp request)? > > How does the wireing need to be set up (modem or zaurus or nobody plugged to the > > uplink?)(Is there a 'master device' as usual with usb devices; or is this not the > > case with ethernet over usb)? > > You have to plug your Zaurus into your computer. You *can* do this via > a USB hub with other USB devices plugged into it if you so desire. > IIRC, the Zaurus runs a small dhcp server to configure the p-t-p USB > network between the computer and the PDA. When you plug in the Zaurus > to the USB port, the computer's hotplug scripts send a dhcp request to > the PDA in order to configure the computer->PDA side of the connection. > So long as the Zaurus can talk to the computer through the USB hub, > you should have no problems plugging in other devices to the hub as well > (OK, so you may lose some bandwidth while they are all active at the > same time.... B^) [You *can* change the way the Zaurus configures its > USB network. While I was looking at the Zaurus configuration files, I > noticed that you *can* set it up so that the PDA sends a dhcp request to > the computer. Its just not configured that way "out-of-the-box".] > > I have an SL5500 currently plugged into one of my 2 USB (1.1) ports. I > went through some grief getting it working on my RedHat 6.2 system > initially. Then came the RH 7.3 upgrade which broke my configuration. > Ditto for the RH 9 upgrade. (You might notice a trend here....) In > fact, every kernel upgrade re-writes the modules.usbmap file which needs > to be hacked in order for the usbnet module to configure right. The > blacklisting of the CDCEther module thankfully is unaffected by kernel > upgrades. > > I'll let you know RSN if upgrading to USB 2.0 requires anything new. > > > ii) Would it be possible to connect in addition an external harddrive to the hub > > and mount it as mass-storage device while having the ethernet connection running? > > In theory, if you can connect your Cable Modem to the same hub and get > it to play nicely with your PDA, there' no reason why you can't put an > external Hard Drive on as well (though USB 2.0 is strongly recommended > here). > > > Thanks a lot in advance for your answers > > greets > > jonas > > I want to thank the other kind users here who helped me stabilize my > Zaurus configuration a while back! Especially since the only HOWTOs > that I could find are woefully out-of-date! > > -- > Kevin J. Cummings > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
