On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Rachabathuni Sailesh-P0927C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to establish a PPP connection from my Palm V to Windows RAS. I
> am doing this over a radio link (that replaces the serial cable). The radio
> on the Palm side can only handle 9600 bps baud-rate. I could not find any
> way to modify this setting in the Prefs Panel. I tried to use an
> application called "Direct Link" which is designed for this specific
> purpose. DirectLink works fine on Palm III but crashes on Palm V.
>
> 1. Is there a way to change the baud rate PPP uses, without having to write
> an application?
>
> 2. Can somebody give me an idea why Direct Link crashes on Palm V and works
> fine on Palm III?
>
> 3. Are there any other programs like DirectLink?
>
> 4. If I have to write a program to do it (God forbid it), is
> NetLibIFSettingSet the function call to use?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sailesh.
>
> PS : If this mail does not make any sense please tell me so, so that I can
> post more detailed description.
>
I have written a (basically) direct clone of DirectLink which works on (at
least) the PIIIx and I assume the PV, as well as the PIII and the PPro.
I called it (cheekily :-) LinkDirect, and it is available from PalmGear,
or at http://www.vmlinuz.org/palmos - and it's under the GPL, so you're
free to read the code as long as you don't steal any of it :-)
I wrote it after failing to get any response from the author of DirectLink
regarding fixing it or releasing the code so I could fix it. I have no
idea why DirectLink doesn't work, but I copied most of the network
detection stuff directly from the SDK, so LinkDirect should be 'clean'.
Cheers
Richard
