DeanDC10

You are connecting to the PC with the Network Access profile correct?

If you are connecting to the Dialup profile this is your problem.

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Benvolio

Mine was pointing to the dial-up as well!

How do you get it to point to the Network Access?

I think this might also be an issue of setting the COM ports correctly (something which is beyond my comprehension, but I see a different COM port mentioned in several different places).

Lastly, I noticed a Bluetooth Network listed amongst my LAN & High Speed Internet connections.

Likewise, I have a Bluetooth Connection listed under Dial-up (I have a Bluetooth mobile phone set up for my laptop).

Your help is really appretiated.

Benvolio

DeanDC10

Like it says in my guide, all services EXCEPT for NETWORK ACCESS should be set to start manually.

You can share your dialup connection to the Internet, but you connect to the PC via Bluetooth and a Network LAN connection.

Do not confuse the two. ICS would be enable on the Dialup connection to your ISP.

That is good that you see the Bluetooth LAN connection under LAN & Hign speed connections, this is normal and correct.

The fact you show dialup Bluetooth connection is so your PC can dialup your cell phone and use it I assume. I don't see any reason to do this other than backing up your landline dialup connection if your phone lines were down/ not working.

There is nothing to setup as far as COM ports for the Network/LAN connection. Only if you want to try to HotSync will COM ports be any factor. DO NOT try to HotSync until you get the Network connection working first.

Follow my guide from top to bottom, SLOWLY, and this will work.

All the answers are there........

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Weapon X

Nope, The only BT service I have on Auto is the Network Access.

And yes, still doesn't work. The T3 get its IP from the BT network but DNS: nothing, nada, zip.

Grrr....

DeanDC10

This is either an ICS issue or a Firewall.

Make sure you have ICS enabled on the correct LAN connection.

mtuckman

I am also having an issue with XP and ICS.

I have 2 networks - The first is the ethernet network and my second is my bluetooth adapter.

My internet connection is a dial-up DSL line.

If I have my internet connection shared to my bluetooth adapter it works fine. If I use Network Bridge to join the 2 networks together, then share the the internet to the bridge, my ethernet network works, but not my T3.

No matter how I set it up, the T3 never picks up an IP address or DNS entries. I have to manually configure it, and I don't like that I can't manually configure a gateway.

I have also enabled and disabled IP Routing on the PC, but again with no luck.

I am considering a Bluetooth AP, so I don't have to have the PC logged into to use the bluetooth adapter. I just hate wasting the money on the AP if the T3 still does not work any better.

The only way I got both networks working at the same time is if I use a third party program like Wingate.

Weapon X

Hi Weapon X here.

Just to report that I can't still get the T3/Bluetooth LAN setup working for sharing my Net access suplied by a Dial-Up.

Just to have the chance of feedbakc from you guys, here is the ipconfig reading of my system with the T3 connected to the BT LAN:

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : X-DEVICEXP (That's my PC)
Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes

adapter Bluetooth Network:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Bluetooth LAN Access Server Driver
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0D-88-AC-CC-B4
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

ter Coqui.Net:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-53-45-00-00-00
Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 66.50.6.16
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 66.50.6.16
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 196.28.61.36
196.28.61.66
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Another thing, once the T3 is connected to the BT and a ping request is made, always resolve the domain name to IP address 14.0.0.234

What do you think about that?

Thanks in advance.


--Weapon X

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Dean has notified us of updates to the HOW-TO instructions. Changes have now been incorporated. Thanks.

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frioman

I HAVE A DELL LAPTOP WITH WINDOWS 2000 PRO AND AMBICOM BT DONGLE HOW DO I GET IT TO SHARE THE DIAL UP CONNECTION WHICH BTW IS AOL IVED TRIED EVRYTHING.......
FRUSTATED THANKS IN ADVANCED

DeanDC10

ICS has to be enabled on the AOL dialup connection. You must be connected to the dialup connection before trying to connect the Laptop via Bluetooth.

If you are using AOL's software to dialup the connection you are out of luck. You must be using Windows Dialup Networking to make the connection, this is where ICS gets enabled. You can not enable ICS on AOL's software for dialup.

Sorry, time for a new ISP or a Broadband connection (DSL or Cable)............

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usmaak

I've been working with these instructions for two days now, and I'm still having issues.

First, my T3 is not assigned an IP. It is 0.0.0.0. It still connects through my Belkin bluetooth dongle, but I can't ping anywhere. When I try to ping, the IP always resolves to 14.0.0.234, no matter what site I'm pinging. I checked ipconfig /all to make sure that my BT adapter is set up to 192.168.0.1, and it is. I made sure to flip my router and WAP over to use 10.10.1.1, so there'd be no conflicts with the router. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the Belkin software a bunch of times.

One interesting thing. When I first install the software, it adds an extra LAN connection to my network connections. This disappears on reboot (even though I don't get a message to reboot), but when I reboot, I have a disconnected network connection until I enable ICS on my only LAN connection. I don't know if this is normal.

I feel like I'm almost there. I just need to get over this last little hurdle, and it'll work. I did a google search on 14.0.0.234, and this thread is the only reference to this IP on the entire internet.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

DeanDC10

This is not normal. One guess is either you have plugged the Bluetooth adapter into a bad or malfunctioning USB port, or you have it plugged into a hub. Try changing USB ports and make sure that it is directly on the PC.

This is a Bluetooth driver issue most likely. Once the drivers are installed the BT LAN connection should always be present under network connections.

This page gets updated constantly at:

http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/

Check this link for the most current information.

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usmaak

Yea. I like that site. I was using it just this afternoon.

I tried two different USB 1.1 ports on my computer, and got the same results on both of them.

I notice that one other poster in this thread had the exact same problem with 14.0.0.234.

Originally, I had an Ambicom dongle. I returned it for the belkin. I completely uninstalled the drivers for the Ambicom. I also had the TECOM drivers installed to try and get the Ambicom working, and I uninstalled those as well.

The second, temporary LAN connection was something like "Microsoft TV/Video Out".

I wonder if something could have been left behind. If it was, I have no idea how to get rid of it.

DeanDC10

With so many different drivers installed I would say you have some incorrect files left over. If you have done this all very recently you could use system restore to take your PC back in time before you started installing all the different drivers.

The IP mention is just a default windows IP I think. It doesn't really mean anything other than you are not connecting to the Network profile.

You might have some ICS issues as well.

I would get your PC as clean as possible from all the Bluetooth drivers and any ICS settings you have setup.

Then start from the top.

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