Ethernet Wired Connection Possible???
 

Greetings,

Just discovered this site....

Don't have Nokia N800 yet....but thinking about it.... ;)

One question I have is whether it's possible to connect to internet using wired internet connection instead of WiFi?

If so, what would I use to make connection? For example, I use Socket 10/100 ethernet CF card now in my Zaurus for this...but there's no CF card slot in N800....

I know that the great thing about N800's is WiFi but at work, I can't use WiFi, just ethernet connection...so that's really important to me to have that option if I want....

Thanks for any and all input!

Mark

Re: Ethernet Wired Connection Possible???
 

Maybe in USB host mode but still I don see it happening... There is no available slot for any external card that can be recognise devices...

In any case you can buy your self a small bridge... I own a asus that I take with me when I travel.

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By the way you have some pics on your HP Jornada 728/Debian (for sale...)
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:D

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There is, as of now, no way to get a wired network connection with a N800. You might, with judicious (hah!) use of drill/dremel and superglue, get an ethernet cable into your N800, but other than ruining your Numpc, you'll have achieved nothing.

You could spend money to buy one of those portable ethernet-to-wifi routers, or get a cheap dataplan for your bluetooth-enabled phone, but that's about it.

So there...

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Yes, I can send you some now if you let me know where to send them...PM me your email address??

Also, thanks for the tip about the bridge!

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Thanks for your input, Karel!!

Mark

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It should be possible to something with gadget Ethernet.
/mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.18-omap1/g_ether.ko

I haven't had time to play with this. You need to rmmod g_file_storage before doing the insmod of g_ether. ifconfig usb0 10.0.0.150 as an example.
On a host plugging in a USB cable will show an Ethernet device. setting usb0 to 10.0.0.151 on the host gives you a private network. I'm sure there are ways to setup routing to put the n800 on the internet through the host but I haven'tresearched it.
Here's g_ether loaded:

[92396.230865] ether gadget: using random self ethernet address
[92396.230987] ether gadget: using random host ethernet address
[92396.231536] usb0: Ethernet Gadget, version: May Day 2005
[92396.231567] usb0: using musb_hdrc, OUT ep1out IN ep1in STATUS ep2in
[92396.231597] usb0: MAC 4a:71:3c:38:59:20
[92396.231658] usb0: HOST MAC a6:d3:19:0e:14:65
[92396.231689] usb0: RNDIS ready

The RNDIS means it should work with M$ idea of TCP/IP BUT you have to go out on the web and find the windoze driver - or just say no to Bill and switch completely to Linux;) I've no Apple experience, but it should work just fine.

Richard

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you could just buy a personal wifi access point

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I could have sworn I saw someone write of accomplishing this in another thread here...

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I think I get what you're saying, Richard....

use a USB LAN adapter????

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