Gett SSH to work under Windows 7

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by PKFFW

Update.........

Upgraded my BIOS and now Virtual PC in XP mode works. WinSCP and RNDIS drivers installed in the XP mode and working great.

No luck on getting it all to work under Windows 7 natively though.

Cheers,
PKFFW

Congratulations!

Do the instructions in the OI WIKI for WinXP work for Win7 Virtual PC in XP mode or have you found anything different for that mode?

[PKFFW]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Congratulations!

Do the instructions in the OI WIKI for WinXP work for Win7 Virtual PC in XP mode or have you found anything different for that mode?

Two minor things that should be pretty easy to figure out but here's a general run down.

1: Up the top of the XP mode window are some drop down boxes. One of them is "USB". You must click this drop down box and attach the USB device(the ereader in this case) each time you plug it in before XP mode will recognise that it is there.
2: Right clicking on the linux.inf file and choosing install doesn't seem to work. Instead, after "attaching" the ereader(by the drop down box at the top of the window) for the first time, the windows pop up asking for the drivers will appear and you go through the usual process of telling it where the file is and installing it.

Other than that it is all the same. Of course you need the hardware and a version of Windows 7 that both support virtualistaion.

Cheers,
PKFFW

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by PKFFW

Two minor things that should be pretty easy to figure out but here's a general run down.

1: Up the top of the XP mode window are some drop down boxes. One of them is "USB". You must click this drop down box and attach the USB device(the ereader in this case) each time you plug it in before XP mode will recognise that it is there.
2: Right clicking on the linux.inf file and choosing install doesn't seem to work. Instead, after "attaching" the ereader(by the drop down box at the top of the window) for the first time, the windows pop up asking for the drivers will appear and you go through the usual process of telling it where the file is and installing it.

Other than that it is all the same. Of course you need the hardware and a version of Windows 7 that both support virtualistaion.

Cheers,
PKFFW

Thanks PKFFW!!!!

I expanded the WinXP instructions in the WIKI hoping to make it more clear what WinXP users needed to do to get SSH and WinSCP to work for transferring books to OI. Maybe you could add a little Win7 addendum to that explanation, or make your own separate Win7 entry? I am guessing that there will be more and more people needing help like that now that Win7 is fully released.

Thanks again for your report on getting all this to work on Win7.

[PKFFW]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Thanks PKFFW!!!!

I expanded the WinXP instructions in the WIKI hoping to make it more clear what WinXP users needed to do to get SSH and WinSCP to work for transferring books to OI. Maybe you could add a little Win7 addendum to that explanation, or make your own separate Win7 entry? I am guessing that there will be more and more people needing help like that now that Win7 is fully released.

Thanks again for your report on getting all this to work on Win7.

Tell you what, I'll write out something that makes sense to me sometime over the next couple of days and then post it here. If it makes sense to others then we'll go ahead and put it in the wiki! I wouldn't want to put something in there that ends up just confusing people because it is a garbled mess that only makes sense in my head.

Cheers,
PKFFW

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by PKFFW

Tell you what, I'll write out something that makes sense to me sometime over the next couple of days and then post it here. If it makes sense to others then we'll go ahead and put it in the wiki! I wouldn't want to put something in there that ends up just confusing people because it is a garbled mess that only makes sense in my head.

Cheers,
PKFFW

That sounds like a reasonable plan!

[PKFFW]

Ok, so here's what I came up with as instructions for WinSCP and Windows 7.

If you all think it is clear, concise and would be of help then please add it to the wiki as I don't know how. If you think it needs some work let me know where the confusion or problem or whatever is and I'll do my best to reword it and make it clearer and get it back here.

Cheers,
PKFFW.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by PKFFW

Ok, so here's what I came up with as instructions for WinSCP and Windows 7.

If you all think it is clear, concise and would be of help then please add it to the wiki as I don't know how. If you think it needs some work let me know where the confusion or problem or whatever is and I'll do my best to reword it and make it clearer and get it back here.

Cheers,
PKFFW.

I added your instructions to the Wiki for you. All I did was convert your Word document to PDF and then added the PDF to the Wiki as an attachment. I put a note at the beginning of the Windows section indicating that Win7 was a special case and then put a link to your instructions in the Connection section, giving PKFFW credit for the instructions.

EDIT
I have gone back to the Wiki and changed PKFFW's Win7 setup procedure from an attachment to an addendum at the end of the general Windows procedure.

[PKFFW]

Thanks Dave.

[dottedmag]

.doc, .pdf

eww

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by dottedmag

.doc, .pdf

eww

I just figured that everybody has access to a PDF reader.

What is your preference?

[dottedmag]

Attached = non-modifiable = not a wiki anymore. My preference is get the text out of the attachment and put it right into a wiki page.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by dottedmag

Attached = non-modifiable = not a wiki anymore. My preference is get the text out of the attachment and put it right into a wiki page.

Ahhhhhhhhhh, I see what you mean.

I have gone back to the Wiki and changed PKFFW's Win7 setup procedure from an attachment to an addendum at the end of the general Windows procedure.

[dottedmag]

Thanks. I just slightly changed formatting, beyond this everything is fine.