Dear experts,
I have read carefully through all the available to me archive of this
newsgroup on this topic and still unable to get things working right, even
though several articles did report that it should. A while ago I have tried
that and posted some questions, several people replied with useful info, but
it still didn't work, now is the second round.
What is under investigation: Windows CE5 as Platform Builder with a
cumulative annual QFE applied dated 12-31-2006. That should take care of
many things I guess...
Goal is to make the USB rndis working right. The rndis device used is
U.S.Robotics USR5421 USB to wireless LAN stick. Tested on PC and proven to
work ok. Based on what I have read on this topic, the following environment
variables were added to enable USB rndis support to either platform
set SYSGEN_USBFN_NET2280=1
set SYSGEN_ETH_USB_HOST=1
set SYSGEN_USBFN_ETHERNET=1
set SYSGEN_ETH_8021=1
set SYSGEN_NWIFI_STA=1
this should take care of everything needed ( if I understand it correctly).
Two development boards with :
1 --- ARM processor. Has 1 USB port. Built image (using command line) has
standard explorer shell. Cmd line is supported, so one can type commands
directly on the device. USB port correctly functions and recognizes both USB
storage devices and USB printers. There is on-board Ethernet adapter already
as well on-board wireless LAN adapter as well, for which 3rd party drivers
are used.
Upon insertion of USR5421 into device's USB port no visual effects are seen,
but "power" led on the USR5421 comes on, antenna light stays off. Taskbar is
showing a new network adapter, as well as control panel->Networking gets
another network adapter applet.
Question to this one:
a) what do I miss in terms of why does the USR5421 is detected as wired LAN
adapter instead of wireless one ?
b) when using command line and trying to launch wireless zero configuration
tool, an error is returned
>wzctool -e
WZCEnumInterfaceg() error 0x00000002
2 --- VIA Luke (x86 like). Has 4 USB ports. Built image (using Platform
Builder) has custom shell. No cmd line is supported in image. USB port
correctly functions and recognizes both USB storage devices and USB
printers. There is on-board Ethernet adapter already.
Upon insertion of USR5421 into device's USB port a pop-up dialog shows up,
prompting to provide a driver name for unidentified USB device. Typing in
the name of the dl lit should use, i.e. usb8023.dll, causes the dialog to
pop up immediately back again and so forth indefinitely if repeated.
Question to that one: and why is that one not recognizing USR5421 at all,
while the same environment variables were added to build ?
Please advise where to look.
Many thanks
Sergei R