Hi Josh,
On 2 Apr 2004 at 18:45, Josh Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spoke, thus:
> I've borrowed a cross-over cable from one of my friends and it works fine
> with his computer.
Sanity check: the cross-over cable is a network cable. Both ends are
ethernet RJ45 connectors with spring push clips and perhaps rounded anti-
snag shields. Is this the cable you were using? If so, then it could
only work with your friends computer if the BrailleNote happens to be
configured correctly with IP address and/or WINS provided for your
friend's computer. You may have been talking about a serial cable -
that's a different cable entirely, with nine or twenty-five pins at either
or both ends. Let's assume from now on that you are able to use a serial
cable to connect your BN to ActiveSync on a computer, somewhere, which is
preferably your own.
> I'm trying to use it to connect my braillenote with activesync. However,
> I can't. I entered bnipconfig.exe ran the program got the ip addresses
> but the bn ip field was blank.
Get yourself established with some kind of ActiveSync connection, probably
using your serial cable, and preferably to the computer with which you
will be using ethernet. This is where you very likely went wrong. When
you are connected, re-run the bnipconfig.exe utility from the host
computer. Since you are using a cross-over cable, I assume you want the
speed benefits of ethernet, but that you are not intending your
BrailleNote to connect to your email service or the web, and just want to
transfer files quicker than with serial. Your cable connects only the
BrailleNote and the PC. Am I correct?
Let's suppose that I am. Your PC is, I assume, disconnected from all
ethernet networks - only your BN trails a cable from the ethernet port on
your PC to the network adaptor on your BrailleNote. First, press the Get
IP parameters button and a few fields will fill themselves in. You are
running Windows on the PC, and there is no DHCP server. Turn off the
"DHCP Enabled" checkbox. There is no WINS server either. Turn off the
"WINS Enabled" option, too. You must tell the BrailleNote the IP address
it should use. This must be four numbers separated by dots, and must not
be your PC's IP address. Check that the BN IP field isn't empty - if it
is, the configurator hasn't done its job properly. If it isn't empty, and
the numbers look as described next, you can choose to chance it or not -
it's probably alright, but you can do the following to be quite sure.
Look at the PC IP address field, and copy it to your clipboard. In the BN
IP address box, paste. Now, edit the last number, rightmost - change it
to one higher than as shown. For instance, if your PC's IP is
192.168.1.5, change it in the BN IP box to 192.168.1.6. In the default
gateway box, just in case, paste your PC's IP address - if you enabled so-
called Internet Connection Sharing under Windows 98 or XP, your PC will
act as a gateway and NAT and will route your packets through another
interface, if available, such as a modem that perhaps your PC uses for
your web browsing and email.
Now, give this a good look over, and press the "Program BN" button. Your
serial interface is used to configure the BN. Take this opportunity to go
into ActiveSync and configure everything else you want - establish your
partnership, set up your sync options, turn off file conversion, blah,
blah, blah - as described in the manual. When all is said and done, more
was probably said. Secure the network card in the BrailleNote, and press
resett. turn off serial connections to ActiveSync and enable ethernet/RAS
from the PC. Now, utilities -> ActiveSync Connection, choose Ethernet.
Choose Utilities -> ActiveSync. Step back - this is a dangerous
operation, and should be performed in the absence of children. Prey to
your chosen supreme being or deity ...
If everything worked, you are now connected.
If it didn't: darn. Write to me personally, and I'll get you up and
running.
Hope this helped!
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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