On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Haemish Graham wrote:
> I emailed TRG and asked if the Xircom Ethernet Card was supported and they
> promptly replied saying:
>
> > At this time the TRGpro doesn't support Ethernet because of a limitation
> > of the Palm OS. This is a problem that should be remedied in the next
> > version of the OS so hopefully at that time we will be able to get a CF
> > Ethernet card up and running.
>
> Any guys on the PalmOS team care to comment? I know that ethernet cradles
> are to available in the US soon so does this mean that the limitation TRG
> mention is going to be removed in a flashable upgrade? I think alot of
> people are going to be interested in a quick (serieal doesn't really cut it)
> LAN connection for palm devices and they are going to want some choice. I
> would rather spend my money on an industry standard card than a proprietry
> cradle and wait for the format to change.
>
> -haemish
I don't think these have anything to do with each other. The ethernet
cradle interfaces with the Palm using the regular serial port, just like
any other cradle.
Ethernet card support directly in the OS would require some kind of driver
or something.
1 uses all the stuff that's already there (standard serial port), the
other (what TRG is presumably talking about) requires changes to the OS.
--
Brian Mathis
Direct Edge
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