I'd like to connect my N900 to the outside world via usbnet as there is no WiFi in my office that I can access, and my workstation runs Win XP unfortunately.

I found some instructions on the wiki but they seem to be outdated. It's easy enough to get XP to recognise N900 as an unknown network device, but Win XP does not think that the file "Nokia770 USB Ethernet RNDIS.inf" that was suggested is an appropriate driver description for the N900.

Does anyone know of an updated driver info file that works with XP+N900 or can give me a hint as where to get information on how to update the existing info file?

Nokia770 is another device with another driver. Either update your winxp or install the nokia pc suite.

Yes I know it is another device, c'mon, I'm not stupid. The USB ethernet gadget driver is used for many different linux peripherals.
And the wiki said the instruction were valid for N900.
I have PC Suite but I have not found how it lets me do usb networking from my phone to my pc.

Haven't encountered the 770 driver yet, sorry.

Have you installed Bluetooth Dial-Up Networking from the repositories? It enables the bt modem.
Then the "connect to the internet" icon in pc suite should work by default.

Or so it was for me...

Does a BT modem connection allow you to connect N900 to internet via Windows? Isn't that just for connecting windows out through the phones 3G connection?

Hmm... If you're on a laptop or have a wi-fi card this is doable but I have no idea where I read about it.
Via usb... I really don't know :|

the RNDIS drivers should only be needed for Win2000, not for WinXP.

after you've setup usbnetworking on the N900, connected it via USB to a WinXP host and selected "PC Suite Mode", what happens?
the "PC Suite Mode" does the same the "maemo-statusbar-applet" did for the N800, to enable USB networking.

i haven't used this under windows, but with Linux it's really easy. i'll try to find the time to write up a how-to this weekend.

btw, when the connection is established, you have to change the default route on the N900 so it actually uses this new interface.

Hi SubCore,

I am having the same problem, everything works fine until I try to ping the other end of the USB-Connection. 192.168.2.15 is not reachable. There also is no adapter in the Windows XP host which binds this adress.

What Do I need to do in order to get a virtual 'USB-NIC' on Windows XP-side?

Thanks,
Corwin

well, it seems i was wrong about windows

i tried to set it up last weekend (and to write a howto as i go along), but i didn't succeed. apparently, an RNDIS driver really is needed.
i tested various combinations of RNDIS drivers for the linux usbnet module, tweaking the device identification strings etc, but to no avail.

my guess is, that usbnet on the device needs to be tweaked so that microsoft's RNDIS drivers accept it as a valid (virtual) network adapter. i'll try that next weekend, but no promises.
the "maemo-statusbar-usbnet" for diablo is a promising starting point, since it accomplishes exactly that.

The linux.inf file in question always used to live in the kernel source in the documentation subdir. Anyone tried the one that comes with the correct kernel source version?