Connecting your Windows Mobile 2005 device via USB (usb-rndis-lite)
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These instructions let you connect your Windows Mobile 2005 device, via USB, to your computer, using the usb-rdnis-lite kernel module.
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Instructions for kernels >= 2.6.21
As of version 2.6.21, the Linux kernel has most of the required support built in, and thus doesn't require the usb-rndis-lite driver. However, you still need to apply a patch to the kernel source for it to work.
For kernel version 2.6.21:
cd /usr/src/linux wget http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/patches/linux-2.6.21-rndis_host-wm5.patch patch -p1 < linux-2.6.21-rndis_host-wm5.patch
For kernel version 2.6.22:
cd /usr/src/linux wget http://synce.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/patches/linux-2.6.22-rndis_host-wm5.patch patch -p1 < linux-2.6.22-rndis_host-wm5.patch
You need the following options in your kernel config:
CONFIG_USB_USBNET=y CONFIG_USB_NET_CDCETHER=y CONFIG_USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST=y
Compiling them as modules should also work. Finally, build and install your kernel as usual.
Instructions for kernels < 2.6.21
Download the Driver
Package
Download synce-usb-rndis-lite-0.10.0.tar.gz and then:
tar zxf synce-usb-rndis-lite-0.10.0.tar.gz cd synce-usb-rndis-lite-0.10.0/
Subversion
Download the usb-rndis driver from the Subversion repository. For this you must have a subversion installed. Execute:
svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/synce/trunk/usb-rndis-lite cd usb-rndis-lite/
Compile and Install
Note: you must have your Kernel Headers installed:
Note: You need to have CONFIG_USB_NET_CDCETHER compiled either into the kernel, or as a module, in your kernel config. Located in Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Gadget support -> Ethernet Gadget
Then you have to
cd usb-rndis-lite/ make sudo ./clean.sh sudo make install
If you don't use or understand sudo, you can use normal su for the last two commands:
cd usb-rndis-lite/ make su (enter root password) ./clean.sh make install
If you get no errors with the last step, you can plug your device into the computer. This should automatically load the new usb-rndis driver that was just installed.
Success
Well done! You now have the device and computer successfully connected! Next, you must install SynCE to use your connection to your device. Next step:
Troubleshooting
Bad CDC Errors
If you get an error as below:
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 13 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new driver cdc_ether usb 2-1: bad CDC descriptors usbcore: registered new driver rndis_host usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 13
Then there a couple of things to try. First of all, make sure your kernel is configured with the CONFIG_USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST or CONFIG_USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST_MODULE option. Without this, the driver will be built without ActiveSync support.
The module can be found in:
Device Drivers
> USB Support
> USB Network Adapters
> Multipurpose USB Networking Framework
> Host for RNDIS Devices
If this doesn't help, then please uncomment the lines "#DEBUG" and "#VERBOSE" at the top of cdc_ether.c. They should look like this:
#define DEBUG // error path messages, extra info #define VERBOSE // more; success messages
Then run through the make / clean / make install procedure and you should have an extra message.
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 13 usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice usbcore: registered new driver cdc_ether rndis_host 2-1:1.0: missing cdc header union ether descriptor usb 2-1: bad CDC descriptors usbcore: registered new driver rndis_host usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 13
As you can see, it now gives us a message from rndis_host. Please include this in a message to the mailing list or when you are on IRC.
Find Device Interface
The synce will take care of identifying your device and assigning it an ip address, but for debugging and to prove everything worked it may be handy to know a little about the interface it is creating for you. To do this, execute the following command:
dmesg | grep "rndis[0-9]: register" | grep "rndis_host" | tail -1
If everything went smoothly then you should have been outputted a line like this:
rndis0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:10.1-2.1, RNDIS device, 80:00:60:0f:e8:00
The interface in this example is rndis0.
