I GOT IT WORKING !!! --finally after trying every other tech...
(SL-5500 connected via usb cradle to DEBAIN SID connected via ethernet to ADSL router)
with another method briefly touched on in this and most threads.... "bridging"
here's the config:
first: apt-get install bridge-utils
(this gives you the brctl command)
PC's : /etc/network/interfaces (note: 192.168.1.105 is simply a dummy address to bring usb0 up with and is then reset to 0.0.0.0)
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 0.0.0.0
netmask 0.0.0.0
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
pre-up brctl addbr br0
pre-up brctl addif br0 eth0
post-down brctl delbr br0
allow-hotplug usb0
mapping hotplug
script grep
map usb0
iface usb0 inet static
address 192.168.1.105
netmask 255.255.255.0
post-up ifconfig usb0 0.0.0.0 up
post-up brctl addif br0 usb0
post-down brctl delif br0 usb0
exec # /etc/init.d/networking restart
alternatively br0 can be assigned manually rather than dhcp from a router etc...
Zaurus's Network Set-up GUI ;
configure usbd0:
check automatically bring-up
set ip address, subnet, gateway, dns's as needed (with gateway being your pc's assigned ip *(not router), be that for eth0 or what would now be br0)
now as i did a fair bit of mucking around first there may be some of the things prior to this method needed though i dont recon here they are:
on Z; edit /etc/resolv.conf to match your pc's ... and add def gateway commands etc as commonly done, but i think OPZ's GUI setup screen handles that...
-can now ping
www.google.com ... now onto package management ...
references:
http://www.gumstix.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index...page=Networkinghttp://www.stolk.org/debian/bluetooth.html