The information on this page is incomplete and may not be completely accurate. I have since given up on getting dial-up to work, although reports that it can be done abound. However, I have not been able to find a simple procedure to patch an FLP install to get DUN working without a full blown (and undesirable) OS upgrade. Contributions are welcome.
See “Wikipedia”:Wikipedia:com/microsoft/windows_Fundamentals_for_Legacy_PCs for more info on what this special edition of Windows XP is and what it’s supposed to be for, as well as its Vista-like installation method.
My interest in FLP is based in its usefulness for:
- Creating lean Windows VMs to run under Fusion
- Creating thin clients and custom installs for several purposes (including a base environment for my portable toolkit)
- The new generation of sub-notebooks with constrained storage space
It is, sadly, useless for real mobile use, since it lacks dial-up support (it only knows enough about modems to do TAPI) and hence any form of 3G connectivity.
Fixing the Cygwin null
device
What follows are my notes on getting Cygwin to work properly on FLP, and fixing the infamous missing /dev/null
device (without which you cannot get SSH to work, and which Cygwin developers have repeatedly resisted re-implementing in another fashion).
Pretty much all of it was culled from this forum post regarding Windows XP Embedded – I merely cleaned up the text a bit and confirmed it working for FLP, provided you have an Administrator account:
- Copy
null.sys
from another machine to the same location (c:\windows\system32\drivers\null.sys
) - Run
regedit
and navigate toHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root
. - Right-click on the
Root
folder and add theAdministrator
user with full control. - Right-click on the
Root
folder again and create a new key under it calledLEGACY_NULL
- Grab this text file and save it to your desktop
- Change the extension to
.reg
and double-click to merge with the Registry - Reboot
Cygwin’s SSH should work properly now.
Another way to verify that it is correctly installed:
- Go to the Start menu, right-click on
My Computer
and selectManage
- Right-click on Device Manager and select
Show hidden devices
from theView
menu - Open the
Non-Plug and Play Drivers
section and go to theNull
driver - Double-click on that device – the status panel should read
This device is working properly
.
Resources:
Untested Procedure For Dial-Up Support
While investigating whether or not it would be possible to add dial-up support to an existing FLP install to provide HSDPA connectivity, I came across this forum post. It is apparently possible to inject the following files and registry entries from a standard XP install to get it to work, but I have not tested this approach.
Required Files
Filename Place in Folder avmeter.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 avtapi.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 avwav.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 communic.inf C:\WINDOWS\inf csamsp.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 hticons.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 htrn_jis.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 hypertrm.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 hypertrm.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32 lights.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32 mdminst.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 mdmsetup.inf C:\WINDOWS\inf modem.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers modemcsa.inf C:\WINDOWS\inf modemcsa.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers modemui.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 rootmdm.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers serwvdrv.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 telephon.cpl C:\WINDOWS\system32 umdmxfrm.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 unimdm.tsp C:\WINDOWS\system32 unimdmat.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 uniplat.dll C:\WINDOWS\system32 usbser.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers winchat.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32
Required Registry Entries
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\HandoffPriorities]
"RequestMakeCall"="DIALER.EXE"
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\HandoffPriorities\MediaModes]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CoDeviceInstallers]
"{4D36E96D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"=hex(7):4e,00,65,00,74,00,43,00,66,00,\
67,00,78,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,4d,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,6d,00,43,\
00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,43,00,6f,00,49,00,6e,00,73,00,74,00,61,00,6c,00,\
6c,00,65,00,72,00,00,00,73,00,65,00,74,00,75,00,70,00,5c,00,46,00,78,00,73,\
00,4f,00,63,00,6d,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,00,2c,00,46,00,61,00,78,00,4d,00,\
6f,00,64,00,65,00,6d,00,43,00,6f,00,43,00,6c,00,61,00,73,00,73,00,49,00,6e,\
00,73,00,74,00,61,00,6c,00,6c,00,65,00,72,00,00,00,00,00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System\Modem]
"EventMessageFile"=hex(2):25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,\
00,6f,00,74,00,25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,\
5c,00,49,00,6f,00,4c,00,6f,00,67,00,4d,00,73,00,67,00,2e,00,64,00,6c,00,6c,\
00,3b,00,25,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,52,00,6f,00,6f,00,74,00,\
25,00,5c,00,53,00,79,00,73,00,74,00,65,00,6d,00,33,00,32,00,5c,00,44,00,72,\
00,69,00,76,00,65,00,72,00,73,00,5c,00,4d,00,6f,00,64,00,65,00,6d,00,2e,00,\
73,00,79,00,73,00,00,00
"TypesSupported"=dword:00000007
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Modem]
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000000
"Group"="Extended base"
"Start"=dword:00000003
"Tag"=dword:00000004
"Type"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Modem\Parameters]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]
"Class"="Modem"
"Default Service"="Modem"
"Icon"="0"
"Installer32"="mdminst.dll,ClassInstall32"
"TroubleShooter-0"="hcp://help/tshoot/tsmodem.htm"