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Anyway to connect Treo to my Wireless network?
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Posted by: hydro

Is there anyway to connect my Treo to my wireless network at home?

Posted by: Quake97

Do a search and check out treocentral.com. There is a company that's developing a wifi sled for the 600/650. That's the only possible option until Palm creates drivers for their wifi card that works in the Treo 650. Don't hold your breath.

Joe

Posted by: sfu_engineer

You dont need a wifi sled to connect to your wireless network at home. You can use the Treo 650's bluetooth and a bluetooth dongle to connect to the internet. But this limits you to networks that you create at home and cant be used to connect to wifi hubs which dont use BT. You may or may not need a program called Softick PPP to connect to the net using BT as I have succesfully connected to the internet only with my Tungsten E and Treo 600 using a USB cable.

Posted by: hydro

I was searching around the net, and I was able to find this...
http://mytreo.net/store/product.php?xProd=70
It says that it is a wi-fi card, but not compatable with the treo, BUT it also states that there might be a patch somewhere that might enable this card to work. Anyone?

Posted by: sfu_engineer

The "patch" as you say, is actually drivers to work on the Treo. So far PalmOne has been super stingy with their drivers. Releasing only for certain devices and having the card cost alot of money. I have heard that someone (search Shadowmite ? in google), has hacked these drivers allowing the WIFI card to work on a Sprint Treo 650. Check it out.

Posted by: infinii

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Originally posted by sfu_engineer
The "patch" as you say, is actually drivers to work on the Treo. So far PalmOne has been super stingy with their drivers. Releasing only for certain devices and having the card cost alot of money. I have heard that someone (search Shadowmite ? in google), has hacked these drivers allowing the WIFI card to work on a Sprint Treo 650. Check it out.

Sorry to bring up this old thread.

Does anyone have this working? I've found a blog post claiming that Shadowmite made a mistake...
No WIFI drivers

Does anyone have wifi access on their 650 + Sandisk 256MB+ Wi-Fi SD yet?

Posted by: LetsGoFlyers

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Originally posted by infinii
Sorry to bring up this old thread.

Does anyone have this working? I've found a blog post claiming that Shadowmite made a mistake...
No WIFI drivers

Does anyone have wifi access on their 650 + Sandisk 256MB+ Wi-Fi SD yet?

If I understand this post correctly, I think you're confused about the "hacks" and "patches" for WiFi for the Treo 650. Shadowmite took the WiFi drivers from the T5. Using these drivers, he got WiFi working on the Sprint Treo 650. From what I've read it's flakey at best and then you have to hard reset to use Vision (Sprint's 1x data service) again. I don't belive these drivers ever worked for the GSM model but I could be wrong. Then Shadowmite found what looked like hidden WiFi drivers on a GSM Treo, that turned out not to be what it appeared.

Posted by: infinii

Thanks for the clarification LetsGoFlyers.

I guess I'm SOL as I intended on using this device as cell+wifi. I wanted to experiment on getting a VOIP softclient on it...without spending 1k on an i-mate.

****, might have to consider selling this.

Posted by: LetsGoFlyers

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Originally posted by infinii
Thanks for the clarification LetsGoFlyers.

I guess I'm SOL as I intended on using this device as cell+wifi. I wanted to experiment on getting a VOIP softclient on it...without spending 1k on an i-mate.

****, might have to consider selling this.

Glad I could help. Well, like Quake97 said, a WiFi sled is in development for the Treo 650. It should cost $150 and you just slip it into the Treo. It has its own battery which means it won't suck the Treo's battery dry. It'll obviously add size to the Treo for when you need WiFi but if you like it and don't want to shell out a ton of money for a PDA2K then it might be an option for you.