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Neil Bentley wrote:
> Dave Boulter wrote:
>
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> I bought one last week to use with my Zire 72. I had a lot of problems
> trying to connect to my wireless gateway at home until I changed the
> settings to use a fixed IP address. Using DHCP, the Zire would not
> connect after the first connection. The gateway is a Netgear model and
> I have not had any problems connecting to it from any other system.
I've a SanDisk SD for my Zire 71 and had to st static IP and DNS to work
with my Netgear wireless router. Its probably the same SD card but
because of Palm driver issues isn't advertised as interchangeable.
Garbage like this won't happen with Palm OS on Linux.

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Mine has worked with fine with one minor hitch - the software seems to have a
bug resolving the name of the Primary PC during a HotSync via WiFi... Haven't
tried the updated driver yet. It connected first time out of the box with my
Dlink DI-614+.
It's fun to do a "war walk" around your neighborhood and find all the wireless
routers! In mine I sniffed 13, of which only 3 were using WEP!
It does chew up battery charge like mad, and the fact you have no storage on the
card means you need to leave your WiFi enabled programs in main RAM. Watching
AvantGo sync rapidly without even turning on the PC is pretty cool in the
morning... I'm happy with mine so far.

WyreNut

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Palm OS on Linux? That seems like an oxy moron...


"George Fragos" <gfragos@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Neil Bentley wrote:
> > Dave Boulter wrote:
> >
> >>
> > I bought one last week to use with my Zire 72. I had a lot of problems
> > trying to connect to my wireless gateway at home until I changed the
> > settings to use a fixed IP address. Using DHCP, the Zire would not
> > connect after the first connection. The gateway is a Netgear model and
> > I have not had any problems connecting to it from any other system.
> I've a SanDisk SD for my Zire 71 and had to st static IP and DNS to work
> with my Netgear wireless router. Its probably the same SD card but
> because of Palm driver issues isn't advertised as interchangeable.
> Garbage like this won't happen with Palm OS on Linux.
>
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> George Fragos
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In article news:<0aSdnQjWm9uWEybcRVn-vg@comcast.com>, George Fragos wrote:
> It sure does but that name comes from Palmsource's announcement that
> they bought a Chinese mobile Linux software company and will be
> releasing a "Palm OS on Linux" product. No date for release was given.

Indeed: http://www.palmsource.com/press/2004/120804_cms.html and see also
the "Open letter to the Palm OS Community" and "Open letter to the linux
Community" linked from the left sidebar on that page.

Note carefully what they say: They specifically say that they are not
Open-Sourcing PalmOS itself, which they would have to do to incorporate
linux into PalmOS. What they say they are producing is a closed-sourse
PalmOS layer that will run on top of a linux kernel in a linux-based
handheld. That will allow a Palm-like GUI -- presumably the intention is
that this will be the device's only GUI, but it could be provided as a
subsystem under embeddix/Qtopia or whatever -- and will support PalmOS
applications. The PalmOS layer will incorporate the DragonBall (68k)
emulator from PalmOS 5/6 and they say that all 68k PalmOS applications
should run unchanged but that PalmOS 6 (Cobalt) applications will require
a recompile.

There's no suggestion that this PalmOS on linux offering will replace
PalmOS qua PalmOS (i.e. Cobalt), just that it will make PalmOS available
as a user-level environment on a wider range of devices.

... of course, the fact that they don't suggest it today doesn't mean that
they won't do it one day. I wouldn't expect them to be in a position to do
so -- even if they want to -- for well over a year, though.

Cheers,
Daniel.