Kinoma Notes

The Palm LifeDrive and Palm T|X were intro­duced in 2005 — ancient his­tory by device standards.

You’d think both devices be hope­lessly out of date by now, but they’re still very use­ful and (with Kinoma Player 4 EX) still make great media play­ers. The LifeDrive’s chubby chas­sis is pretty dated, but the ahead-of-its-time Palm T|X was clearly the pin­na­cle of Palm OS device design. The hard­ware still looks and feels like it could’ve been released this year.

They both have built-in Wi-Fi, which was still pretty unique back in 2005. Sadly, their Wi-Fi sup­port is show­ing its age, and the LifeDrive and T|X are unable to con­nect with more and more mod­ern Wi-Fi routers and access points in their out-of-the-box configurations.

The solu­tion

For my D-Link DIR-825, the solu­tion was to go to Setup > Wire­less Set­tings > Man­ual Wire­less Net­work Setup and choose “Mixed 802.11g and 802.11b” as the 802.11 Mode for the 2.4 GHz band. (You don’t have to worry about the 5 GHz band if your router sup­ports it, since the devices don’t.)

Also, remem­ber that the LifeDrive and T|X only sup­port older WEP and WPA-PSK wire­less secu­rity modes. I rec­om­mend tem­porar­ily turn­ing off wire­less secu­rity alto­gether, and then turn­ing it back on once you’ve fig­ured out how to get your device to con­nect to your Wi-Fi network.

Other routers

If you’d like to share spe­cific instruc­tions for con­fig­ur­ing other routers, you can email us at content@ our domain and I’ll gladly add the details to this post.

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