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Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

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When you give it the driver CD it installs the drivers AND the Bluetooth stack, usually Widcomm, but sometimes something else. And a BT stack is not native to Windows XP.

Thanks, wodin. Presumably, the drivers could be bundled on the USB bluetooth dongle and so no CD would be required. That is what my link above seems to state (and if not, just download them at home first on your thumb drive):

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The built-in Bluetooth® wireless technology makes a computer communicate with other Bluetooth® -enabled devices freely and effortlessly. Additionally, the BT007Si Bluetooth® USB Adapter also bundles a Bluetooth® software for performing wireless applications such as file transfer, network access, dial-up networking and so on.

Moreover, an innovative Bluetooth® profile “Human Interface Device (HID)” , “Advance Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP)”, and “Basic Image Profile (BIP)” are included to enable your computer to use Bluetooth® keyboard and mouse, stereo headphone, and received pictures from Bluetooth mobile phones directly.
. . .
System Support
Windows XP/2000/ME/98SE
(The BT007Si is driven by the bundled IVT BlueSoleil Bluetooth software or Windows XP SP2 Bluetooth stack)

That link also states that Microsoft has a bluetooth stack as part of XP SP2. But perhaps it must still be downloaded (e.g., it is available but not bundled by default).

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Using the D-Link Wifi USB , I did NOT follow the instructions to install with their setup program first. I plugged in the USB adapter and then "fed" it the drivers. It recognized the
DLINK and put a Networking Application in the Tray at the bottom right of the screen, without a reboot.

Sounds great! How much is the D-Link Wi-Fi USB adaptor?

As stephen stated, if any of this bluetooth software required a reboot, we would just be plain out of luck for this use case.

Is there any way to do a wired connection with an N800? This is what folks do when they bring in their laptop, but the cafe does not have wireless. They plug the ethernet plug into their laptop.

Travis

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

Hi Travis

I found this D-link Wifi on sale for $29 a few months ago just check the usual suspects for sales like Staples, Office Dep, Buy.com, Tigerdirect etc. I saw one internet cafe in Italy that offered an ethernet port, NONE In Germany because the cafes want to run their metering/monitoring software and control what you do with a "locked down" PC.

Also you can Not assume they are running XP SP2 NOR plan on using "built in " drivers that may or may not be avaialable.

I will also try the http://maemo.org/maemowiki/USBnetworkingWinXP
USB cable approach but I think it is more problamatic on the n800 side.
This approach tricks XP into thinking the N800 is an ethernet device.

I like the Dongle USB Wifi approach because it is the easiest & fastest
approachto setup and remember at some internet cafes you can pay 2-3 euros ($4) per hour so you want to get on the net grab & send you data and get off. You can easliy recoup the cost of the Wifi dongle by saving time not doing HOTMAIL or equivalent at Net cafes.

regards
stephen

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

Any luck getting this to work?

All the searchable information is for the 770.

One post I read suggested to link using hcitool CC to link them but didn't seem to work on the N800.

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

To get the XP machine to work as a BT interface to Internet you have to enable internet sharing (on XP) for BT.. won't that work only if you have Admin rights? The internet cafes I've visited didn't have admin rights for the users. I haven't tried the equivialent with a wi-fi dongle, but won't that too need admin rights, somehow? Mind, it would be great if it's possible, I too would like to update mail etc. on the N800 by visiting a cheap internet cafe with the N800 and a BT dongle (or wi-fi dongle, if necessary) in my pocket.

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

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Originally Posted by euchreprof (Post 34316)

Would someone who owns a Nokia N800 and a USB Bluetooth Adaptor (on their PC or Notebook) please try to connect to the internet this way? I do not want to spend $50 on a USB Bluetooth Adaptor and then find out I wasted my money.

I picked up one for $10. Works great.

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

Texrat can you share what steps you took to get it to connect and programs or settings loaded? I haven't had any luck with BT connection to the web through a PC. None of the other posts here I've searched have helped.

Re: N800 Net access at Cafe with Wifi Dongle

Texrat I wouldn't mind either if you shared a howto with us if it is different from that at http://maemo.org/maemowiki/Bluetooth...nectionManager