"DNS host is not found" error in Netfront?

[fredamat]

I\'ve just installed a cf wifi card on the C750. Created a connection, fiddled with the tcpip addresses etc. The card connects in ad hoc mode to my desktop (windows xp). I\'ve run the small network wizard in XP - internet connection sharing is enabled, there\'s a bridge etc.

Everything seems hunky dory until I start the netfront browser - then the following error:

Content error
http://www.google.com
DNS host is not found

I realise I\'ve probably entered the wrong ip addresses somewhere in the zaurus wireless lan card services settings, but I feel as if I\'ve exhausted the possibilities! I\'ve tried leaving them as auto detect but then the card won\'t connect - at least with my settings the card connects a treat!

Help would be (to put it mildly) very gratefully accepted

Martin

[fredamat]

Changed everything back to auto - tcpip, dns etc, and it works - wouldn\'t even connect to the card on those settings before, so I guess I must have changed something in XP.

I\'m writing this on the C750, so I can\'t be hallucinating!

Martin

[evowan]

Hi,

I\'m having a problem which looks like what you had in this thread http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...iewtopic&t=3042

What versions of WinXP are you using? You said you\'ve changed everything to auto assign IP? So the bridge, wireless LAN and Z are all on auto assign IP?

[fredamat]

Hi Evowan

I think (!) what I did was cancel / delete the network bridge on XP Home, and start fresh using the setup home network wizard - I let it assign all the ip addresses on windows. I then stage by stage changed the tcpip / dns  settings on the Zaurus to get them automatically, and suddenly netfront worked for me. Bear in mind I could always connect the zaurus to windows and ping - it was just netfront that wasn\'t working. I think I\'d got myself into a vicious circle because XP wasn\'t quite configured right, but I kept blaming the Zaurus. Starting from scratch on XP seems to be the way, and then let the Zaurus do its thing

Sorry I\'m hazy, but I tried so many different things over the 7 hours I was at it, and like a fool I didn\'t document anything!