USB to PC settings

[colin_thames]

Please excuse my ignorance but can anyone explain what the option under USB to PC "Enable Advanced Network Functionality" does?

I believe I have to select it if I want to connect my PC to the Tytn to use it as a modem.

Is there any reason why this shouldn't be selected all the time?

Thanks

[ai6908]

Please excuse my ignorance but can anyone explain what the option under USB to PC "Enable Advanced Network Functionality" does?

I believe I have to select it if I want to connect my PC to the Tytn to use it as a modem.

Is there any reason why this shouldn't be selected all the time?

Thanks

I am not exactly sure what it does, but if I have it enabled, I cant sync my PDA at work. So I keep it disabled as soon as I install a new OS.

[colin_thames]

Interesting. It doesn't seem to affect whether I can sync or not. It also seems to be bizarre to have a single setting on a control panel.

Anyone else know what this setting is meant to enable or prevent?

[stangeek]

Like the previous post, I'm not completely sure what the functionality of this setting is, but it may be the ability to use the phone as a modem using the remote NDIS (RNDIS) architecture.

Both my co-worker and I need to remove this check in the setting or our latptops will very quickly become frozen, and we have to do a hard reboot.

[colin_thames]

Both my co-worker and I need to remove this check in the setting or our latptops will very quickly become frozen, and we have to do a hard reboot.

Thanks for your experiences. I too have noticed that the syncing can take longer and seems to use resources when networking is enabled, and at other times it's fine, though I've not had any total freezing of the PC. Is it the laptops that have to be rebooted or the Hermes?

[alucardlive]

RNDIS is a more robust connection over serial. It also allow you to utilize Internet sharing instead on Wireless modem. The phone will show up under device manager as a network adapter instead of windows mobile based device.

USB to PC Connection Types
"Enable Advanced Network Functionality" - Checked (RNDIS)
"Enable Advanced Network Functionality" - unchecked (Serial USB)

Hope that helps.

[stangeek]

Thanks for your experiences. I too have noticed that the syncing can take longer and seems to use resources when networking is enabled, and at other times it's fine, though I've not had any total freezing of the PC. Is it the laptops that have to be rebooted or the Hermes?

It's the laptops that have to be rebooted. They become completely unresponsive---not even the mouse moves!

[colin_thames]

RNDIS is a more robust connection over serial. It also allow you to utilize Internet sharing instead on Wireless modem. The phone will show up under device manager as a network adapter instead of windows mobile based device.

USB to PC Connection Types
"Enable Advanced Network Functionality" - Checked (RNDIS)
"Enable Advanced Network Functionality" - unchecked (Serial USB)

Hope that helps.

Indeed it does, though I wonder why serial USB is offered at all? (I haven't found an 'official' line from MS) Or does this 'robustness' offered by RNDIS come at the cost of syncing being more prone to problems? The experiences of stangeek seem to suggest this. So perhaps RNDIS is only useful when I need to connect to the internet through my pocket pc. Is this right?

(Incidentally, I have a slightly connected question about syncing which I'll put into a separate topic)
Cheers
Colin

[knightcapain]

is there a registry entry that we can manipulate at time of cooking to have it turned off?

[neoee]

Change HKLM\Drivers\USB\FunctionDrivers\DefaultClientDriv er to Serial_Class