RJ-45 Connection for XDA

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Subject: RJ-45 Connection for XDA
From: Chris
Date: 26 Dec, 2002 18:08:41

All,

Is there a way to connect my Tmobile PC Phone to a ethernet
network? Some type of serial-to-RJ45 connection possbily? Has
anyone heard of a PCMCIA expansion pack for this phone?

Thanks,

Chris 8)




Subject: Probably not
From: Carlos
Date: 26 Dec, 2002 19:01:54

The XDA doesn't have any expansion bus, so an external card pack
would not be possible. It doesn't have USB host capabilities,
so can't use a USB Ethernet. And I've never seen anything that
gets standard serial to Ethernet because it would be so
ridiculously slow as to be useless.





Subject: Ethernet - serial - slow?
From: XDA developers
Date: 26 Dec, 2002 19:04:36

Nah, 115.200 bps would still be a nice enough Ethernet
connection. Beats GPRS...

One could build a small embedded linux device, I guess, that
would do PPP over serial on one side, and ethernet and possibly
even wavelan on the other. But really, they should incorporate
these things.

Telco marketing: if we don't give them WaveLAN, they'll use GPR$
instead...