WiFi Cleanup

Jaymes_E19

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Hello All,

After having participated in the forum for some time, I've seen the comments about the use of the WiFi card and some of the problems that everyone has had from time to time. Having acquired a WiFi card recently, and trying to use it with my home Access Point (Linksys), and having it "fail" to connect (DNS timeout), I contacted another member on another forum in PM and was given some great instructions on removing ALL the WiFi files and doing a re-install. Lo and behold, IT WORKED!

But to delete ALL the files means searching for over 100 files, including all the language files. And having had my connection fail again (either through my not disconnecting WiFi before I removed the card, or through some application conflict), which meant I needed to delete all these files again, I decided to write an NS Basic program which would do just that - Delete the WiFi programs.

I've taken it a few steps further and the program, which I've attached, will do one of three things:

1 - Check and List the files - the listing is created as a Memo in the Memo application.

2 - Remove all languages EXCEPT English. (again a record is created in the Memo app)

3 - Remove ALL WiFi files created by the Palm WiFi Installer. This option requires that you Re-install WiFi.

I've tested it both with the Palm Simulator (POSE) as well as on my T3 and it has done what I programmed it to do.

I should also mention that I downloaded version 1.2 of the Palm installation today (5/16/2005) and the program functions with this newest version as well. File names haven't changed and it deleted the "leftover" language files just as in version 1.1.

If anyone has been having problems with the DNS Timeout or other areas, you may want to try using the Delete ALL WiFi files approach and do a re-install.

NOTE: See post by DeanDC10 for link to download the application.

fnagle
 
The complete .zip file is now hosted by me at whizoo.

Click here for the latest version 0.96.

This program works great. Thanks Frank for taking the time to put it together. I've been running it from the SD card just fine as well.
 
Glad I could provide some help. I know that I've received plenty of answers here in the past and am happy to return the favor.

Special Thanks to DeanDC10 for hosting the application.

fnagle
 
WiFi Cleanup has been added to "alert" a person for the need for a No-Notify warm reset prior to doing the "COMPLETE" cleanup. This gives you the option to exit and do the reset prior to running the full cleanup.

Without doing a No-Notify reset, some files MAY BE locked during the normal reset and therefore not removed for a clean install.

Link for the program is:

http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/WiFiCleanup.zip

No longer contains a version number so updates can be made without changing the link. Current internal version is 0.97

fnagle
 
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