Re: Any info on setting up BT comms between a PDA and a PC?
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"Peter" <nowhere@anon47.com> wrote in message
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> I am after some FAQ on how to do this. I have googled but can't find
> anything relevant.
>
> The PDA is a Tosh E800 (BT version) and I need to do file transfer
> between it and a PC running win2000. I have tried a D-link BT-USB
> dongle which discovers the PDA (and vice versa) but cannot get what
> they call FTP to work.
>
> The Tosh manual is useless...
>
> I did manage to get the PDA to dial my ISP, using a Nokia 6310i as a
> GSM modem, over BT. However this seems to have had a side effect in
> that the PDA goes online spuriously every so often, so I've had to
> disable BT on the phone when I am not actually needing it.
>
> The whole networking config on the PDA (pocket/PC) is bizzare. Every
> dialog I can go into eventually demands a phone number; there seems to
> be no way to configure it for non-dial-up networking.
>
> Also the predefined names like "My ISP" and "My Network" aren't
> supposed to be used, according to some info I found. One is supposed
> to do New and create new names. However I did manage to get the above
> mentioned dial-up to work by configuring it under My ISP...
>
> There also appears to be a clear bug (ppc 2003) in that if there is
> *anything* in the Outbox, the PDA tries to go online every X minutes
> (presumably to send the emails) even if the "X" figure is greyed out
> in the dialog where you can configure automatic email checking every X
> mins.
>
> The spurious dial-outs were not caused by anything in the Outbox but
> they may have been the result of my attempts to set up networking
> connections.... I think I need to do a hard reset and start all over
> again, but I have not found any info on how to do networking
> generally.
>
> I've set up networking on many many windoze PCs in my job, but have
> never seen anything so opaque as this...
>
>
>
> Peter.
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