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hacker · 01-14-2005, 10:40 AM

One member of the community sent me the palmOne Wi-Fi card about a month ago. After some fumbling with the flaky drivers on my Tungsten T3 (another community donation to the cause), I managed to get it working. Its just a wifi card (no onboard RAM), and only supports 802.11b.

The main problem with it, is that it takes my T3 from fully-charged to 0% battery in about 10 minutes of use. If I try to synchronize over wireless, it will drain the Palm's battery before the sync completes.

Until/unless they fix that, I'm not going to bank on external wireless on Palm being any sort of success.

But it does work, and works well for quickly checking my mail or sending files back and forth from my FreeBSD and Linux machines.

01-14-2005, 10:40 AM	#4
hacker Technology Mercenary Posts: 617 Karma: 2561 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: East Lyme, CT Device: Direct Neural Implant	One member of the community sent me the palmOne Wi-Fi card about a month ago. After some fumbling with the flaky drivers on my Tungsten T3 (another community donation to the cause), I managed to get it working. Its just a wifi card (no onboard RAM), and only supports 802.11b. The main problem with it, is that it takes my T3 from fully-charged to 0% battery in about 10 minutes of use. If I try to synchronize over wireless, it will drain the Palm's battery before the sync completes. Until/unless they fix that, I'm not going to bank on external wireless on Palm being any sort of success. But it does work, and works well for quickly checking my mail or sending files back and forth from my FreeBSD and Linux machines.