USB Tether help???

[Cbones]

I can tether via BT through Internet connection sharing, I can tether via wifi, but if I try to tether using USB, I can get all the way up to the point that the laptop is looking for an IP address, and then it fails and I get a 169.xxx address which is obviously useless. BTW I have tried telling Activesync to allow USB connections as well as not allow USB connections, and no difference. BTW I have the latest WM6 ROM and AS 4.5 installed, and it works just fine either over BT and USB. Before I had WM6 it worked over USB and BT just fine. Any suggestions greatly appreciated!

[brightedge]

Try disabling Bluetooth first.

[bilson]

Are trying to do an ActiveSync or modem connection?

[Cbones]

Already tried disabling BT, no difference.

[rxb216]

cbones,

I had a similar issue. To solve it, I manually entered in the following under my "remote-NDIS host" entry:

IP: 169.254.1.169 (in your case I would try to enter the IP address your PC is reporting, you mention 169.xxx, so put the full IP address into the remote-ndis host field)

subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: leave blank

then soft reset and give it a shot

[werewolf727]

I had similar problems and I had to disable all of the other connections on the laptop in order to get it to use the tether for internet access. Disable your wired jack and wifi temporarily in "connection manager" when you tether. You'll of course also want to release and renew your ip address after you've disabled them if it doesn't work at first. You may also want to try just plain shutting down activesync just to see if it helps. Shut down all the processes that start with WCEXXX in task manager. Good luck, hope it helps. I tether to mine all of the time.

[Cbones]

rxb216's post above was exactly the fix needed. Just in case anyone needs to find the RNDIS-host adapter, it is at start-settings-connections-wifi-network adapters-remote NDIS host. Again thanks go to rxb216 for passing this along.