This turned out to be so simple I'm a little bemused Sharp haven't told us how to do it already
(perhaps they have and I missed it :( )

Anway this is how to get intellisync and the Z synchronising painlessly over wireless, using the stock 3.1 rom
(at least for windows 2000/outlook)

a) setup pc-link on the zaurus and zaurus manager on the pc to use USB-TCP/IP and the IP address that you want to use. eg 192.168.81.5

B) setup your wireless card on the zaurus to use the same IP address on the zaurus
ie 192.168.81.5

c) setup the pc wireless card to use the same ip address with .1 as the final octet
ie 192.168.81.1
(caveat - if your Z address was eg 192.168.81.1 then the PC address would have to be
192.168.81.2 )

d) edit /usr/lib/samba/smb.conf
change the interfaces line to use the Z ip address
ie the 3.1 default says
interfaces usbd0
change it to
interfaces 192.168.81.5

e) reboot the z (simpler than trying to restart qpe!)

And thats it.
sync using the 'Synchronize' icon intellisync created (pointing to SLNetDlg.exe) or just use
an icon pointing at IS4SL.exe" /E

(I've also had it working once over irnet - which is what I really want - but it seems to
conflict with the samba share then - so there's something odd there)

cheers!

kudos jdaley (Any relation to our mayor here in chicago?)

First of all promote your ranking from newbie. This is an elegant answer.

But......

For those of us with wireless routers and such, there is no wireless card in the PC to set the address for. (.1 in the last octet as you said.) For almost anyone, the router will be .1 and everyone else gets the address from the router.

Any way to not hard code this, and set it to the PCs IP address?

Chas

Very informative post. I will definitely try this out tomorrow night when I remember to bring my Z home from work.

Wow .... this was what I have been looking for. I wonder if this will work in adhoc mode with my SL5600....

Cant wait to try. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

Yup ... Tried it. Worked perfectly
The sync must be initiated from the PC, not from the Z.


Thank you so much.

Now I just need to try configure my PC to allow internet sharing.

QUOTE (chas @ May 27 2003, 12:39 PM)

For those of us with wireless routers and such, there is no wireless card in the PC to set the address for.  (.1 in the last octet as you said.)  For almost anyone, the router will be .1 and everyone else gets the address from the router. Any way to not hard code this, and set it to the PCs IP address?

Setting the PC IP to the address it uses to communicate with the router shouldn't be a problrm. Remember that jdaley had a caveat that said you could set the PC IP address to something other than .1 if you set the Z to a .1 address. The trick is not to let the router set either the PC address or the Z address and make both of them static. You will have to change your dhcp settings in the router to accomplish this safetly. I set the upper limit on addresses to be assigned to a small number that just matches the number of computers I want to get addresses that way. Then the static addresses are assigned in the left over addresses above that upper limit. There won't be any chance of assigning one of your key addresses to a different computer under those circumstances.

Traci

> Any way to not hard code this, and set it to the PCs IP address?

I've not found one yet :( (or rather you can set it to anything you want but not if you want sync to work)
The .1/.2 final octet values are set up (on the zaurus) by a couple of lines in scripts that are triggered for USB connection - these lines use the address set up on the zaurus to generate the address of the server - the rule it uses is:
if the last octet is a '1' then add '1' otherwise set it to '1' obviously you can change this (& you get a partial sync - but .....)

Given that there is no ability to configure the address of the server at the intellisync end, then the same calculation must be being performed by intellisync - as this doesn't appear to be a config parameter I'm stuffed - which is a bit of a shame - the old story of 'mother knows best' perhaps!

What I really want is to use infra red sync so that I don't need to carry/plug/unplug anything on laptop or Z - irnet 2o w2k/linux works beautifully but the sync is a sod - I've tried various routes to configuring the intellisync end of the address - eg forcing specific routes at either/both ends, nobbling the dhcp server that gets started on the Z etc - I get partial syncs but nothing that is reliable.

However using a sniffer I couldn't get a clean wireless sync so I suspect that I've had failures which were actually timing errors - which probably means that the routes that I thought weren't working might have been - YMMV!

cheers

Have you tried playing with the IP= line in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Sharp\SL\SSPCLINK2\ComSet.ini?

I haven't tried it myself yet, and I'm not even sure if it is looked at for the wireless connection.

You beat me to it. I just figured out this trick a few minutes ago.

Win2K (maybe XP) supports two IP on the same nic. I have one set to 192.168.129.1 and the other to my local range. Works fine and I don't have to renumber my router.

And

interfaces 192.168.81.5

should be

interfaces eth0

QUOTE

interfaces 192.168.81.5 should be interfaces eth0

Yes - though if you use the ip address you can run either usb or wireless sync without having to change anything - & hopefully infra-red as well - the only thing stopping irnet sync at the moment is that nmbd responds to the broadcast address - which pppd doesn't honour - I'm fiddling with route at the moment to see if that will help

Just a quick question;

At work my Z is assigned one ip number (XXX.XXX.XXX.AA) and I am not allowed to change it.
My desktop is assigned another ip number (XXX.XXX.XXX.BB) and again, I am not allowed to change it.
Both addresses are static as is the rest of the network.
Our security is by MAC filtering and armed escorts in the areas where WiFi is available (signal does not get out of the building, both me and the MIS guy tried). My office is right above the access point so I get great signal. Is there anyway I can get wireless sync to work with this type of setup? I tried using the above instructions but using the assigned ip's I got nowhere.

V-Man

Not yet. We need to change the server IP address and I can't seem to find it.

Does anyone have the source to qtsamba?

This might work if I could get the Zaurus manager to take a new IP address without the USB dock connected. Wireless sync like this would be perfect for work, and I'd rather not take my cradle back and forth...

You can edit a text file for the Zaurus manager to fake it out.
I will post the file later tonight when I get back to my comp.

Your looking for a file called ComSet.ini. Do a search for it.

Mine is.

CODE

[AutoLaunch] Sync=1 [TermInfo] TargetVersion=1 [Communication] Device =2 Name=zaurus IP =192.168.129.201 NetworkPort = 4245 NetWorkClientPort = 4244 PSave=0 Binary=0200 Port=COM1 Baudrate=115200 SerialOptions=flow=1

The Key is the Device=2 option. 2 is USB TCP/IP. I think 0 is USB I/O.
Once you change it, you can change the IP address in the Manager and do other stuff in it. But don't touch that option in the manager unless you want it to bug you about not finding the Zaurus again.