#65997 - STAKED - Sat Jan 07, 2006 1:21 pm
Not entirely dev-related, but I managed to get my Belkin USB stick (FSD7050 if anyone cares) to work with the driver hack posted the other day and working as a Nintendo Wi-fi USB Connector. The problem however is, no matter what I do I just cannot get connected to the WFC service with Zonealarm (or any firewall I've tried) running. The second I close it, no problems. Obviously this is fairly frustrating and all that idiots elsewhere say is "turn off your firewall"... which as we all know would be deeply stupid. Has anyone had any luck getting connected with the USB Connector through Zonealarm..?
#66043 - adrian783 - Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:56 pm
i think its impossible...
since you need to enable access for all of your opponents, meaning everytime you play you need to enable 3 or less IPs, if they dont disconnect....
its better to just use windows firewall or a router
#66044 - Veg - Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:35 pm
I've got mine working through Zone Alarm. I have the XP firewall turned off by default.
Can't remember how exactly I got it to work, though - but it was a fair bit of trouble.
#66052 - adrian783 - Sat Jan 07, 2006 10:50 pm
really veg? can you delve into details? like, trusted zones and stuff
#66078 - STAKED - Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:35 am
Please do. There seems to be some very specific trick to getting it to work correctly. Zonealarm appears to be *trying* to let you connect to the WFC service (there is definitely up/dowload activity) but failing in the end for some reason a lot of people can't figure out. My personal theory is UDP ports need to be allowed, but which ones is beyond me (given that the Nintendo site helpfully advises "all"...)
Yet I have no problem if I just set it to connect via my wireless router. I'd much rather use the USB method however if this can be figured out...
#66101 - adrian783 - Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:34 am
bump...cuz this is really annoying me
#66114 - Veg - Sun Jan 08, 2006 10:08 am
Ok, well like I said, I can't remember exactly how I got it to work, but I'll give some of the settings I have set up here.
First of all, it's a fairly old version of Zone Alarm Pro - 3.0.118
The DS wireless adaptor is set up on 192.168.7.0/255.255.255.0, Entry Type : Network, Trusted Zone
The Trusted Zone settings are:
Medium
Nothing is blocked in the Medium settings for Trusted Zone.
In the 'Advanced' box, under 'Internet connection Sharing', I have 'This computer is an ICS/NAT gateway' ticked, and my local address entered (192.168.7.3, though that probably won't be relevent to you).
Far as I can tell, that's everything relevent that I've ticked. Of course, the Nintendo Wifi Connector program has full Access and Server privileges.
#66163 - Xtreme - Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:47 pm
I have made a guide: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=8070
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