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Title: Perhaps Newbie Question But...
Post by: Alfinfrance on October 24, 2005, 11:24:45 am

Hi,

this is my first post here, and, I expect, not my last.

I stupidly bought a SanDisk 256 + WiFi SDCard to use with my Zaurus SL-5000 ( with my GM 270, don't ask me why  )

I see that everyone everywhere says that the SL 5500 has no SDIO capabilities but the memory part of my SD works very fine.

Is the WiFi part totally separated? If no, why are the 256 MBits avalaible to my zaurus and not the WiFi card?

Is there a way to see a report for the generated errors of the SDCard ?

That's all for the moment, I know it's a kind of FAQ but I like to understand this kind of hardware problems.

PS : I'm not a Linux Guru, but I understand much better Hardware problems than Software one's, and, if there is a way to help, I'm ready.

Thanks

Title: Perhaps Newbie Question But...
Post by: microsoft/linux on October 29, 2005, 06:41:20 pm

I don't know much about SDIO, but my feeling(note, it's just a feeling, I'm kinda making this up) is that the Wifi is connected to the SDIO, but the memory isn't. I've seen a Wifi-128MB CF card, and apparently, the wifi works on that, but not the memory. Like I said, I don't know that much about SDIO.

Title: Perhaps Newbie Question But...
Post by: lardman on October 31, 2005, 06:34:51 am

Iirc there's no SDIO functionality on the 5500/5000D, there is some on the other machines iirc (though this is just from what people have said - in fact there's a pinned thread in one of the parts of the forum about SDIO on the c7x0 machines).

In any case you'll need an arm driver (or source) for the card (or lots of time to hack one together using next to no info).


Si

Title: Perhaps Newbie Question But...
Post by: Alfinfrance on November 01, 2005, 10:12:26 am

Thanks for your answers...

I 've ordered a 128 MBits + WiFi CF card to have WiFi working on my Zaurus.

The problem is that I have to remove my GM 270 GPS card to have WiFi. No way to have WiFi AND GPS on this working together? ( I don't know much about it, a CF card doubler or WiFi via USB ? )

Thanks again, and, if I find anything, I'll post it

Title: Perhaps Newbie Question But...
Post by: lardman on November 01, 2005, 12:09:44 pm

You could get a serial GPS.


Si