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Originally Posted by mobelby
A couple of tips for dozy windoze xp sp3 (32 bit) users like myself:
- use google to find and install the windows gumstix usb linux rndis driver - you'll need this for your USB network connection to your kindle
- if your main PC (that you will connect your kindle by usb to) has its main ethernet (or wifi) LAN connection set as eg 192.168.1.x then choose a different subnet for the HOST IP and KINDLE IP referred to above - eg 10.1.0.1 for Kindle and 10.1.0.2 for host (that's right - your main PC will have two network addresses now, 192.168.1.x and 10.1.0.2 and you will need to set 10.1.0.2 manually yourself using windows tcp/ip properties)
- after you have connected your kindle's usb networking connection and got telnet to work then rerun the network setup wizard on your main PC and make sure you choose the connects directly to the internet and other computers access via this computer option. You will then get asked which network connections share the internet connection and you can tick the box for 192.168.1.x and 10.1.0.2. Then ICS should definitely be working for your linux usb connection
Hope this helps someone out there.
NB version 5 (first page of this thread) works as is without any modifications with Kindle 2 and winxp sp3. You only need to customise your IP addresses, nothing else
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Thanks for that information - I wasn't having much luck with the OSX-based info.
However, I have tried 6 ways from Sunday to get this to work with my Vista x86 PC, and I simply cannot get it to work. I've tried everything I can think of and I am not having any success.
I have a Kindle2, and I had no problem getting the firmware update done and have gotten the Kindle connected to the PC with usbNetworking. I set the IPs exactly as you suggested, and modified usbNetwork as required.
I tried other IP combinations too just to see.
I can ping the Kindle but that's it. I don't have telnet so I haven't tried that.
I set up the connection sharing on the PC to share my LAN connection (to the internet) with the Kindle connection, but no joy. No data is being transferred as far as I can tell. I also tried "bridging" the connections instead of sharing, but that made no difference.
I've tried it with "Wireless On" and "Wireless Off" on the Kindle, "Wireless Off" of course comes back right away with "Do you want to turn on Wireless".
Wireless bars stay NOT "filled in".
I tried another linux.inf (called 1973 I believe) as well from a forum where they were talking about Vista support. It's another inf for the GumStix RNDIS USB network driver...
Not sure where to go from here or what else I can try???
Help??!!