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I'm getting to like Mandriva more and more on the eee... So I decided that since I was going to keep Mandriva on the system I'd better give the synce usb-rndis lite stuff a go again to see if I could get internet sharing via USB working with my windows mobile 6 system.
I already have the development tools downloaded and a copy of the usb-rndis-lite stuff (see the main eee user wiki for details)
I ran the usual install steps (for mandriva you don't need to build the kernel) and was disappointed to see nothing happening when I tried to use the WM6 phone (a touch dual) in internet sharing mode, however post reboot the whole thing sprang into life straight away (I notice rndis appearing as a network driver during boot) and was auto-detected by the Mandriva networking stuff and I was happily online.
I would be interested to hear if others get the same experience.
Now all I need to sort out is getting suspend working right.
Peter
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That's good to hear.
I had the usb-rndis-lite version of the modules in the Mandriva kernel for a while, but switched back to the kernel.org version after it was updated to allow synchronization to work with WM5+ devices. However, as your message implies, the kernel.org modules still apparently don't work for tethering, and there's also an issue with some devices which can only be currently worked around using the usb-rndis-lite code plus a fairly dirty patch, so I'm evaluating whether we should switch back to the usb-rndis-lite code for 2009. It'll depend on what happens over the next month or two.
Last edited by AdamW (2008-07-18 12:50:51 pm)
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Peter, can you do me a favour and test this kernel?
http://tmb.kkc.fi/Kernels/Cooker/i586/k … 2.i586.rpm
(or http://tmb.kkc.fi/Kernels/Cooker/x86_64 … x86_64.rpm for x86-64)
I think it should load okay on 2008.1. I'm trying to get the tethering patch into the Mandriva kernel for the future - that's a test build to see if it works. Can you give it a shot and let us know? Thanks.
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Ok I'll give it a go tonite.
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Thanks a lot.
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Well this message comes to you via a new kernel over WM6 using internet sharing over USB. I assume the wifi would need a trip to madwifi. My only complaint is that the rndis (along with ath0) device shows as [failed] during boot which is a pity, [pending] or something would be nicer.
The experience otherwise is like the build of usb-rndis-lite I did myself. (at least with mandriva I didn't have to build the kernel first)
Peter
Last edited by PeterI (2008-07-21 3:46:58 pm)
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Excellent, thanks for the test. So we'll probably have this in 2009, and I'll even see if we could backport it to 2008.1 via updates, not sure about that though.
I wish my test device had a data connection so I could test this myself. Or - hmm - I wonder if it would work just sharing a wi-fi connection from the phone...
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Congratulations, Peter - you have now contributed to Linux kernel development:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … 5e58685e4c
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Why thankyou
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Peter, can you please test the latest Cooker kernel, 2.6.26.1-1mnb ? I got a patch added that fixes synce support for several devices, but I'm worried it may have somehow broken tethering support (one report I got seems to indicate this is the case). Can you please try it and let me know? Thanks.
Last edited by AdamW (2008-08-06 2:07:50 pm)
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