Re: Internet connection thru USB

On Monday 13 October 2003 08:09 pm, Nick Baronian wrote:
> I am looking for a way to connect my Z (5500, OpenZaurus 3.2, Opie
> 1.0, 256 CF) to the internet using the cradle or thin USB cable. 
> My goal is to set my Z up to download my email and grab some of the
> headlines, maybe a couple snapshots from some sites every morning
> before I leave for work or while at work.
> I have seen that users can setup a proxy server on their Windoze
> machines to enable them to get the Z connected.  Is there any other
> way than to setup a proxy server on Windows?  My work machine is a
> 2000 box and they would not appreciate me loading a proxy server. 
> USB Internet sharing somehow?
> My home machine is RedHat 9 is there a way I can get the Z to share
> my Internet connection on that box too?

Nick,

If your work won't allow a "tiny" proxy server why do you think they 
would allow any other configuration changes????

There was recently a posting in openzaurus-users maillist re: 
"synching with XP" on 10/9 which might have some good clues for W2K 
as well.  See 
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openzaurus-users
and follow the link for the archives.

If you don't have any communications setup on your RedHat then check 
out http://docs.zaurus.com/index.php?id=lc_redhat_5600.  To include 
routing functions so your Z can see the Internet through your PC 
check out Step 3) on http://docs.zaurus.com/index.php?id=lc_generic .

I use SiteScooper (http://sitescooper.org) for capturing news/web 
sites.  It looks primitive with text file configuration and command 
line execution but it works.  I zip up the resultant html files and 
then transfer / unpack it on the Z.  Then I use konqueror to view it.

Dave