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Wudang

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Wudang
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I keep going in circles in Google on this. I got a PDA for my birthday (my wife's in IT as well, has an electronics degree, does martial arts, loves SF and buys me neat toys). I got myself a bluetooth adapter for my PC and the 2 now happily synch and swap files. I'd like to use my PC's ADSL connection (as it has a good firewall) from my PDA and to share my PC printer with my PDA. I can't find anything obvious to allow this. It's quite possible that I disabled whatever service would allow this. My PDA is an Acer N30b (ARM based) and the PC is XP.
As usual, suggestions to RTFM warmly welcomed if you tell me which FM.
 
I just heard on the radio the other day that Bluetooth is dead. Ericsson has ceased development. I had a bluetooth laptop from work, and a bluetooth phone. It was a royal PITA. It never worked. There was also a USB connection that worked fine.
 
Wudang said:
I keep going in circles in Google on this. I got a PDA for my birthday (my wife's in IT as well, has an electronics degree, does martial arts, loves SF and buys me neat toys). I got myself a bluetooth adapter for my PC and the 2 now happily synch and swap files. I'd like to use my PC's ADSL connection (as it has a good firewall) from my PDA and to share my PC printer with my PDA. I can't find anything obvious to allow this. It's quite possible that I disabled whatever service would allow this. My PDA is an Acer N30b (ARM based) and the PC is XP.
As usual, suggestions to RTFM warmly welcomed if you tell me which FM.
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Your PC needs to have "IP routing" enabled if it is to share the ADSL connection with other networked hosts. Depending on the flavour of XP, that may be easy/hard/impossible.
 
Thanks Zep, I did have forwarding off and turned it on with http://www.xteq.com/. I also finally found a webpage with some worthwhile advice. Seems that the software than came with dongle is suboptimal and XP SP2 now has a working bluetooth stack so I removed the old software and we'll see what happens when I reboot.
Probably be "only a few" 20-hour tweaking sessions
 
On XP, there's also some networking wizards that will nicely configure your PC for various network uses - Start/Help&Support to see them. In that, Microsoft got something right - they are quite good! Mind you, I'm using XP-Pro. XP-Home may be a different matter, I dunno.

Good luck!
 
It can be done - because I've done it. But it was a bit of a struggle, I must admit, as this thread might indicate. Sadly, I didn't record for posterity the steps I took to get it working, but you might find some help here. Good luck, and don't despair - it can be done!

Oh yes - I've used the wizards to try to set up a simple network as well. Didn't work. In fairness, perhaps if I wasn't using NT and Linux on the other two machines it might have been more seamless.
 
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