And the finale: just when WiFi seemed to be behaving itself on my home network, I took the Z to work today and tried to bring up 802.11 there. The Z responded by locking up frequently and enthusiastically: on starting the interface, on resuming from suspend, on card insertion--you name it, the Z locked up during it. Beat Win95 at its own game. And not those wussy, BSOD Windoze-style lockups; I mean old-school, Apple II style lock-ups, complete with random vertical stripe patterns superimposed on the destroyed rubble of whatever happened to be on the screen at the moment!
OK, I know the good folks who wrote Wellenreiter and packaged it for Sharp ROM invested a lot of hard work, and I sincerely hope that many a fellow Zaurite derived much good from it. But from where the sun now stands, I will Wellenreit no more forever. I have reflashed, reformatted, and (I must admit) reconsidered why the hell I ever bought a Z. Whatever you guys did, it destroyed my 802.11 configuration, subtly enough that the only cure was \"scorched earth.\"
The silver lining was that, while I was destroying six weeks of work installing and setting stuff up on the Z, I had the chance to try Zynergy, and I must say I like it! This is the ROM Sharp would have shipped with the Z, if it had any respect for the American consumer or notion of what \"customer satisfaction\" means. The screensaver even doesn\'t look like sh1t and stops cleanly and quickly! What a country!
So, to sum it up: this is only one data point, but Wellenreiter for Sharp ROM=slow, agonising death for wireless networking; if it happens to you, reformat and make the most of it by trying Zynergy!
