wireless connection

Kaci-April!

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Greetings,

I have an old tungsten T and want to setup a wireless connection. Is this possible? How to set it up?

PS: Does palm have a MAC address? :confused:

thx
 
Hello Linda_B,

Welcome to PDAStreet.

I don't believe the SDIO Wireless card supports the T. The models listed at the Palm.com site are: Zire 72 / Tungsten E2, T3, T5 models.

As far as the MAC address goes, this is usually associated with a machine (computer) which can connect to a network. I don't have enough experience witht the T to know if it has such an address or not.

fnagle
 
The MAC (Media Access Control) address is usually associated with the hardware that performs the network communication. In the case of a PC it is on the card installed in the PC or in the chip integrated into the system board.

In the case of the TX the MAC address is integrated into chip set on the device itself. Since it is part of the TX, you will see the MAC address printed on the back of the Palm.

The T has Bluetooth, but the TX uses both Bluetooth (BT) and wireless 802.11b (WiFi). Both BT & WiFi use a unique 48 bit (or 12 digit hexadecimal (0-9, and/or A-F) number) unique address. Since the formatting of these addresses are the same I would think that this address is used for both BT & WiFi on the TX.

In the case of a SDIO card, the MAC address resides on this card instead and and is usually printed on a label that is visable on the card. As a result, you would have two MAC addresses, one on the card and one in the T; and both are unique.

You would need to check your model to see if it supports any externally installed (SDIO) device. My guess is that the "T" does not support Wi-Fi since it is not listed on the Wi-Fi Card Support Page. (see the Q&A section).

Although the processor is the same for the T as for some of the older WiFi supported models (E2 for example), there may be an issue with the limited amount of RAM installed, or possibly there is no device support in the older level of hardware itself.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
John
 
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