Laptop to Pocket PC

I have a laptop computer and have a Dell Axim X50 pocket PC with wireless
LAN card integrated.

If I were to plug my laptop to my PDA, could I use the PDAs LAN card to
allow me to access the internet via my Laptop? So in essence, use the PDA as
a wireless receiver for my laptop? If so, how do I go about this?

Jumbo's Chippy wrote:
> I have a laptop computer and have a Dell Axim X50 pocket PC with wireless
> LAN card integrated.
>
> If I were to plug my laptop to my PDA, could I use the PDAs LAN card to
> allow me to access the internet via my Laptop?

No.

"Jumbo's Chippy" wrote in message
news:440736b5$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a laptop computer and have a Dell Axim X50 pocket PC with wireless
> LAN card integrated.
>
> If I were to plug my laptop to my PDA, could I use the PDAs LAN card to
> allow me to access the internet via my Laptop? So in essence, use the PDA
as
> a wireless receiver for my laptop? If so, how do I go about this?

I had to read your post twice before it became clear.

Basically, you want to use the PocketPC as "wireless hardware" for the
laptop?

[Laptop] --->hard connection (USB, I'll assume) --> [PDA] --> Wireless
Internet?

If you could find a proxy server that runs on PocketPC, it could be
possible, but its going to be messy and slow.

If a PPC/WinCE proxy server even exists (I've never seen one), you'll going
to be doing some dirty IP configuration on the laptop.

Why not just get a cheap wireless PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter for the laptop?

"Eric" wrote in message news:92JNf.405$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "Jumbo's Chippy" wrote in message
> news:440736b5$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I have a laptop computer and have a Dell Axim X50 pocket PC with
wireless
> > LAN card integrated.
> >
> > If I were to plug my laptop to my PDA, could I use the PDAs LAN card to
> > allow me to access the internet via my Laptop? So in essence, use the
PDA
> as
> > a wireless receiver for my laptop? If so, how do I go about this?
>
> I had to read your post twice before it became clear.
>
> Basically, you want to use the PocketPC as "wireless hardware" for the
> laptop?
>
> [Laptop] --->hard connection (USB, I'll assume) --> [PDA] --> Wireless
> Internet?
>
> If you could find a proxy server that runs on PocketPC, it could be
> possible, but its going to be messy and slow.
>
> If a PPC/WinCE proxy server even exists (I've never seen one), you'll
going
> to be doing some dirty IP configuration on the laptop.
>
> Why not just get a cheap wireless PCMCIA/Cardbus adapter for the laptop?

Er, come to think of it...

I don't have any "PocketPC" PDA's, but have a few WinCE (WinCE 2.11/3.0) and
HPC's (HPC 2000) gadjets.

Doesn't "PocketPC" have built-in Internet Connection Sharing? I seem to
remember reading that one of the things PPC got (instead of just a new
overlay) coming out of WinCE3.0 was ICS?

Try asking on microsoft.public.pocketpc

It may just be as a simple as enabling ICS on your PPC.