Internet sharing under WM6.5 and Windows 7

[ashasaur]

Hey all, I think Rim may be the only one with experience using Windows 7...so I ask...how in the world do you get WM6.5 to connect via USB to 7 and make internet sharing work? I've enabled data connections thru WMDC, and all seems well on the WinMo side..so I dunno what the deal is. Windows just tells me that its continually looking for an IP address for my connection, whole my Wing tells me that it's connected. Any help?

 

[MJNewton]

Hi Ashasaur,

Did you ever get anywhere with this?

I've been using my Touch Diamond (WM6.1) with Vista and surfing the web without problems... however having now upgraded to Windows 7 I'm stumbling at the same hurdle as you...

Having plugged the device in and run Internet Sharing on it I can connect okay to my ISP. At the same time, Windows 7 detects the appearance of a 'Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device' and I get a LAN connection under Network Connections. However, I can see that it is requesting an IP address using DHCP but getting nowhere...

Anyone with any tips?

Mathew

 

[ksj]

It works fine for me. I just plugged it in, ran Internet Sharing, and it worked. I didn't have to change any settings or anything.

 

[MJNewton]

Thanks for the reply ksj, I did eventually get it working.

In case anyone else has similar troubles, my solution (which I've posted here), is a simple workaround involving statically assigning an IP address as for some reason automatic assignment with DHCP was failing.

Mathew