Cleanup Your Palm Wi-Fi Drivers

Recently I discovered a software gem that is pretty much a necessity for anyone owning the Palm wi-fi SDIO card. It's called WiFi Cleanup and it's available as freeware at http://www.whizoo.com/bt_setup/WiFiCleanup.zip. If you've ever had problems with the Palm wi-fi card drivers, such as Fatal Alerts, or the alert saying, "DNS lookup timed out. Please check coverage, and try again. [comm. 8]", then this program will help you out.

Once you've entered the program, you're presented with a variety of useful options. The "Check and List WiFi Files" button will check your palm and list, in a memo file, which of the required wi-fi driver files have been found, and which are missing.

If you're missing any files (which is very likely since there are 100+ files), then you'll have to remove the drivers. Palm Inc. would have you believe that you would have to do a hard reset, then start from scratch, but WiFi Cleanup provides an alternative. First, you'll have to preform a no-notify warm reset, which is when you hold the page up button while prssing the reset button, and don't release the page up button until you see the Palm OS screen come up. Then, right after the warm reset, go into WiFi Cleanup and tap the "Remove ALL WiFi Files" button. All of your wi-fi driver files will be deleted and a log of the deletion will be in a memo file. From here, you can install the latest driver from http://palmone.r3h.net/downloads.palmone.com/palmOneWiFiCard_v1_2.zip.

One other, really useful feature of WiFi Cleanup is the ability to remove the non-english files. Just tap the "Remove Non English Files" button and all your non-engligh wi-fi driver files will be deleted, with the details logged in a memo file. It'll save you about 200KB of memory.

I hope WiFi Cleanup helps you, I know it's helped me ^_^