How can I dial GPRS/EDGE in Win CE

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Published on 2010-06-10T21:18:29Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 21:23 UTC
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Hello all.

I am developing application in python on Windows CE which needs connection to the internet (via GPRS/EDGE). When I turn on the device, the internet connection is not active. It becomes active if I open internet explorer.

I would like to activate connection in my application. I'm trying to do this with RasDial function over ctypes library, but I can't get it to work. Is this the right way or I should do something else?

Below is my current code. The ResDial function keeps returning error 87 – Invalid parameter. I don't know anymore what is wrong with it.

I would really appreciate any kind of help. Thanks in advance.

encoding: utf-8

import ppygui as gui from ctypes import * import os

class MainFrame(gui.CeFrame): def init(self, parent = None): gui.CeFrame.init(self, title=u"Zgodovina dokumentov", menu="Menu")

    DWORD = c_ulong
    TCHAR = c_wchar
    ULONG_PTR = c_ulong 

    class RASDIALPARAMS(Structure):
         _fields_ = [("dwSize", DWORD),
                     ("szEntryName", TCHAR*21),
                     ("szPhoneNumber", TCHAR*129),
                     ("szCallbackNumber", TCHAR*49),
                     ("szUserName", TCHAR*257),
                     ("szPassword", TCHAR*257),
                     ("szDomain", TCHAR*16),
                     ]

    try:
        param = RASDIALPARAMS()
        param.dwSize = 1462 # also tried 1464 and sizeof(RASDIALPARAMS()). Makes no difference.
        param.szEntryName = u"My Connection"
        param.szPhoneNumber = u"0"
        param.szCallbackNumber = u"0"
        param.szUserName = u"0"
        param.szPassword = u"0"
        param.szDomain = u"0"

        iNasConn = c_ulong(0)
        ras = windll.coredll.RasDial(None, None, param, c_ulong(0xFFFFFFFF), c_voidp(self._w32_hWnd), byref(iNasConn))
        print ras, repr(iNasConn) #this prints 87 c_ulong(0L)
    except Exception, e:
        print "Error"
        print e

if name == 'main': app = gui.Application(MainFrame(None)) # create an application bound to our main frame instance app.run() #launch the app !

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