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There are other threads on this - but I believe there's an FAQ entry on the Calibre site about a pretty easy way to get Kovid the information he needs for this. Basically you connect the device, click a button in Calibre and mail Kovid the log file  |
Problem is that many phones (most, it appears) do not identify their storage cards well enough for calibre to distinguish between them. My HTC is like that, which is why I built the 'Connect to folder' feature for calibre 0.7.
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What wireless router do you have? As PilotBob said, there are a number of ways we could get your router configured so you wouldn't have any issue with IP addresses. I'm slightly surprised it doesn't default to providing a DNS - so your PDA can address by name.
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Many routers don't support WINS (my DG834 does not), which is required to translate NETBIOS names into DNS names. In addition, most PDAs don't support it either.
There are some things one can do about the lack of a real DNS name. The easiest that I know of (and it isn't particularly easy) requires two steps. First, set up DHCP on the home router to give fixed private-space IP addresses to the clients on the home net. Second, go to dyndns and allocate a name, then give it the private-space address reserved for the machine running the calibre server. For example, if I allocated mrbill.dyn-o-saur.com (yes, that choice is possible) and set the IP appropriately, then I could access my calibre server from *inside* my home net with the URL
http://mrbill.dyn-o-saur.con:8080/stansa. It won't work from outside the home net; fixing that is another discussion.