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01-09-2007, 06:29 PM	#1
J_F Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Ottawa Posts: 167	SPECTEC SDIO question I am trying to make a SPECTEC SDIO SDW-821 WLAN 802.11b/g work with my Zodiac. I can't find the driver for PALM anywhere (original CD, web or SPECTEC site) Does anyone knows how to do it? Thanks __________________ NR70 - UX50 - Zodiac 2 and Zodiac 2 and Zodiac 2 Boldly Going Nowhere

01-10-2007, 04:39 AM	#2
Telyx Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 336	I'm not sure that a driver for that card was ever written for Palm. SanDisk and Palm-branded cards do work (only certain SanDisk cards, though) with the Zodiac.

01-16-2007, 02:17 PM	#3
Iamaboff I love my ZOD Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 100	you could try using the sandisk zod drivers and see if they work IMHO I think that SDIO wifi peripherals are not very good since they stick out the side of your palm and guzzle battery. If you really want wifi on a palm it is best to get a TX. __________________ Palm Tungsten E with 128mb SD card -> Tapwave Zodiac 2 with 2GB SD card and 256mb SD card. Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Nicholas Negroponte I cannot live without my computer and my PDA. Me Last edited by Iamaboff : 01-16-2007 at 02:20 PM.

01-16-2007, 05:03 PM	#4
Cyker Registered User Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,188	The other problem is that WiFi SDIO cards are limited to COM-port level speeds. I still have a file named Zodiac_WiFi_Update_0421.prc which I think is the Zod2 updated SDIO Wireless driver they made before they tanked (sob). I haven't got the documentation so I don't know what WiFi SD cards it works with; I just remember the 2 SanDisk ones (The one with the 256MB Flash and the one without) and the Palm one. Last edited by Cyker : 01-16-2007 at 05:35 PM.

12-08-2007, 08:40 PM	#5
Tomohawk Palm is a 4-letter Word? Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 461	I have a Spectec GPS, and there are two PRCs you need to install to get the GPS to communicate; one is an SDIO UART driver, and the other is the SDIO driver. Both are for PalmOS 5. I'm a little confused why they do it that way. Any ideas? __________________ Drive responsibly Rock & Roll

12-09-2007, 03:30 PM	#6
J_F Registered User Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Ottawa Posts: 167	don't have any idea why developers like to complicate the life of end users I googled the 2 files you mentioned and got no hits for PALM OS. I would really appreciate if you could send them to me at domus_01 at hotmail __________________ NR70 - UX50 - Zodiac 2 and Zodiac 2 and Zodiac 2 Boldly Going Nowhere

12-20-2007, 09:43 PM

dmccunney

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Cyker

The other problem is that WiFi SDIO cards are limited to COM-port level speeds.

I still have a file named Zodiac_WiFi_Update_0421.prc which I *think* is the Zod2 updated SDIO Wireless driver they made before they tanked (*sob*).

Correct. They were updated Wifi drivers with support for the SanDisk 256MB+Wifi SD card.

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I haven't got the documentation so I don't know what WiFi SD cards it works with; I just remember the 2 SanDisk ones (The one with the 256MB Flash and the one without) and the Palm one.

That's the lot. No other SD Wifi cards are known to work with the Zodiac. And both SanDisk cards and the PalmOne card are based on the same reference design from SyChip in Plano, TX.

I have the SanDisk 256MB+Wifi card, and it works fine in my Zodiac using the Tapwave driver. But you need to poke around on eBay to find it: SanDisk stopped making them a while back. (They apparently never worked properly in the PocketPC devices that were the primary market.) The only currently SD wifi card for PalmOS devices is the PalmOne card.
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12-20-2007, 09:50 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tomohawk

I have a Spectec GPS, and there are two PRCs you need to install to get the GPS to communicate; one is an SDIO UART driver, and the other is the SDIO driver. Both are for PalmOS 5.

I'm a little confused why they do it that way.

Any ideas?

Guessing: UART is "Universal Asynchronous Receive Transmit".

The Spectec folks decided to implement the SDIO driver and the UART functions as seperate drivers, likely because they operate at different levels. The UART drivers handles the communications between the GPS software and the external information source, and the SDIO driver handles the hardware interface to the GPS receiver module that lets the software talk to it. Probably simpler to implement the functions as seperate drivers than to try to combine them.
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