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Bluetooth adapter won't let Palm surf
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| Sylvia Hayes 2006-06-21, 10:33 pm |
| I have the Palm Tungsten T5 and a Bluetooth adapter for my PC. I bought
the adapter a while back before we moved out a rural area. I was never
able to make it work in the rural area due to Direcway's address. I
could not change that address from 192.168.0.1
When we got to the area we are living in now I signed up for Cable
service and my brother gave me a router that had a different address. I
am able to have the Palm sign in and establish a connection, but when
I try to get it to call in the email or surf with Blazer, it just hanga
and wont do anything. I am using Eudora form my email program and the
Palm web browser Blazer. Can someone give me some advice?
Thanks,
Sylvia
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| Oliver Doll 2006-06-22, 4:33 am |
| On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 02:30:06 GMT, Sylvia Hayes <noposts@spamex.com>
wrote:
> I have the Palm Tungsten T5 and a Bluetooth adapter for my PC.
when talking about a PC you mean a Windows (XP) OS?
> I
> am able to have the Palm sign in and establish a connection, but when
> I try to get it to call in the email or surf with Blazer, it just hanga
> and wont do anything.
did you check the connection log on the Palm. Does it get proper
connection details as IP address (from the 192.168.0/24 range) and an
adress for the default gw and DNS?
Assuming Window: do you properly enable the Internet Connection
Sharing? Do you have (some etra) FWs running on your PC (and/or your
router) blocking the traffic?
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tnx & cheers
Oliver
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| PDA Man 2006-06-22, 4:33 am |
| Sylvia,
This site www.geekzone.co.nz has guides to help you deal with all sorts of
Bluetooth issues, and that one in particular because it can be tricky. This
should fix you right up.
The owwner, Mauricio, is a regular in this forum and supports it well.
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=449 is a direct link to the
Bluetooth Guide section
"Sylvia Hayes" <noposts@spamex.com> wrote in message
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>I have the Palm Tungsten T5 and a Bluetooth adapter for my PC. I bought
>the adapter a while back before we moved out a rural area. I was never
>able to make it work in the rural area due to Direcway's address. I could
>not change that address from 192.168.0.1
>
> When we got to the area we are living in now I signed up for Cable service
> and my brother gave me a router that had a different address. I am able
> to have the Palm sign in and establish a connection, but when I try to get
> it to call in the email or surf with Blazer, it just hanga and wont do
> anything. I am using Eudora form my email program and the Palm web
> browser Blazer. Can someone give me some advice?
>
> Thanks,
> Sylvia
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"Sylvia Hayes" <noposts@spamex.com> wrote in message
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>I have the Palm Tungsten T5 and a Bluetooth adapter for my PC. I bought
>the adapter a while back before we moved out a rural area. I was never
>able to make it work in the rural area due to Direcway's address. I could
>not change that address from 192.168.0.1
>
> When we got to the area we are living in now I signed up for Cable service
> and my brother gave me a router that had a different address. I am able
> to have the Palm sign in and establish a connection, but when I try to get
> it to call in the email or surf with Blazer, it just hanga and wont do
> anything. I am using Eudora form my email program and the Palm web
> browser Blazer. Can someone give me some advice?
>
You can use Windows Internet Connection Sharing but I found Softicks PPP
easier to set up.
Z
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| Sylvia Hayes 2006-06-22, 10:33 pm |
| Zimmy wrote:
> "Sylvia Hayes" <noposts@spamex.com> wrote in message
> news:Ognmg.9218$lf4.795@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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> You can use Windows Internet Connection Sharing but I found Softicks PPP
> easier to set up.
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> Z
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I am working on all of your suggestions, my machine's OS is XP. I guess
I don't have internet sharing enabled on the machine, but when I did it,
I ended up loosing my connection to the internet on my PC, had to put
the setting back. I had it set to connect by way of Bluetooth to Lan
when it hung so bad, but found when I changed it to the name of my PC it
went real fast telling me it timed out looking for my IP's address
looking for mail and trying to connect to Blazer it tells me the web
site I am trying to access is temporarirly unavailable of the URL cannot
be resolved. It does this real quick at this point but I have to try
and put the internet sharing back and try again, and hopefully I won't
loose my internet connection on the PC again. Just can't do it right now.
Thanks, I will let you know if I get it. I have the sites saved you
suggested.
Sylvia
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"Sylvia Hayes" <noposts@spamex.com> wrote in message
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> Zimmy wrote:
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> I am working on all of your suggestions, my machine's OS is XP. I guess I
> don't have internet sharing enabled on the machine, but when I did it, I
> ended up loosing my connection to the internet on my PC, had to put the
> setting back. I had it set to connect by way of Bluetooth to Lan when it
> hung so bad, but found when I changed it to the name of my PC it went real
> fast telling me it timed out looking for my IP's address looking for mail
> and trying to connect to Blazer it tells me the web site I am trying to
> access is temporarirly unavailable of the URL cannot be resolved. It does
> this real quick at this point but I have to try and put the internet
> sharing back and try again, and hopefully I won't loose my internet
> connection on the PC again. Just can't do it right now.
>
> Thanks, I will let you know if I get it. I have the sites saved you
> suggested.
>
> Sylvia
I am following this thread carefully because I am struggeling with exactly
the same problem.
Bert.
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> "Sylvia Hayes" <noposts@spamex.com> wrote in message
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> I am following this thread carefully because I am struggeling with exactly
> the same problem.
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> Bert.
I should have said 'apparently' you can use ICS (as someone I know managed
to get it working) but it didn't work for me so I tried Softick PPP which
worked pretty easily.
Z
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| dold@XReXXBluet.usenet.us.com 2006-06-25, 10:33 pm |
| Sylvia Hayes <noposts@spamex.com> wrote:
> I am working on all of your suggestions, my machine's OS is XP. I guess
> I don't have internet sharing enabled on the machine, but when I did it,
> I ended up loosing my connection to the internet on my PC, had to put
> the setting back.
That sounds like you elected to share the wrong connection.
That's not an obvious selection to make.
You want to share the the connection that goes to the internet.
This changes the ip address of the local-side adapter (BT for you) that is
going to be used locally to get to this machine, and then out the shared
connection.
You can verify this with ipconfig from a cmd prompt.
Before the share, you should have two different IP addresses (neither one
can be 192.168.0.x, because that's the subnet Windows XP ICS wants to use).
After the share, you will have the internet connection showing the same
address as before. The local connection will be 192.168.0.1. It will
provide DHCP to other units on the local side.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/..._02april08.mspx
goes through the steps to share a Wifi locally. Sharing BT will use some
of the same steps.
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Clarence A Dold - Hidden Valley Lake, CA, USA GPS: 38.8,-122.5
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| Sylvia Hayes 2006-07-02, 3:33 pm |
| dold@XReXXBluet.usenet.us.com wrote:
> Sylvia Hayes <noposts@spamex.com> wrote:
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> That sounds like you elected to share the wrong connection.
> That's not an obvious selection to make.
>
> You want to share the the connection that goes to the internet.
> This changes the ip address of the local-side adapter (BT for you) that is
> going to be used locally to get to this machine, and then out the shared
> connection.
>
> You can verify this with ipconfig from a cmd prompt.
> Before the share, you should have two different IP addresses (neither one
> can be 192.168.0.x, because that's the subnet Windows XP ICS wants to use).
>
> After the share, you will have the internet connection showing the same
> address as before. The local connection will be 192.168.0.1. It will
> provide DHCP to other units on the local side.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/..._02april08.mspx
> goes through the steps to share a Wifi locally. Sharing BT will use some
> of the same steps.
>
I got it to work after going to the Brighthand forum and someone
suggesting I do a search on the web site. I don't know exactly what
kicked it over, but I found some settings to check in one posting for
Treo and set them, but I couldn't do the bridging as suggested. I was
having problems setting up the sharing connection, but after restarting
the machine it took it the next time. I will post here as I posted on
Brighthand's forum:
Rick,
I don't really know why, but I got it working after I used your advice
and did a search on the Brighthand forum. I turned up one for Treo and I
couldn't get it to do the bridging part, but did make a few adjustments
from what I have pasted below and it just started to work, some settings
I tried to make work before did start to work after I made the changes
from what I pasted below. I credit your telling me to do a search at
minimum, so thank you. I am going to post part of this on where I
originally asked for help for getting the adapter to work.
http://forum.brighthand.com/showthre...t=83479&page=5
Sylvia
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I have found an alternate setup process to allow bluetooth internet
sharing. It is actually easier to do and I have had NO problems
connecting ever since I did this set up. I have:
XP home edition with SP2
Lynksis BT adaptor (class 1)
T3
On T3:
Connection
Connect to Local Network
Via Bluetooth
Device (your computer)
Speed - 115,200
Flow control - Automatic
Network
Service (You define the label)
User name (leave blank)
Password - prompt
Connection (use the connection defined above)
Under "Details"
Connection - PPP
Idle timeout - Never
Query DNS - No
Primary and Secondary DNS (see below)
IP address - - automatic
Script - NO SCRIPTS!
The Primary and Secondary DNS servers we will get from the PC after we
set up the connections so hold tight!
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