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bugs78
20th October 2008, 05:27 PM
Iv read alot about but, no definate answers, so I was hoping you guys could finally give me the correct answer.

I have an SPV M1000 and as we all no there is no inbuilt wifi, I have bought a SDIO wifi and have a SD storage card, I have seen several hardware hacking projects saying that people have taken apart teir PDA and manually solder wires from the connecting pins of the SD slot to the wifi card, and they still have the SD slot free for the storage card. so cut a long story short they have internal wifi and they can use the sd storage card.

Is this a feasable hack?

Rudegar
20th October 2008, 06:04 PM
not sure if newer roms changed that but himalaya dident use to be able to work with those sdio cards with both wifi and memory

bugs78
21st October 2008, 10:32 AM
Iv got a PLUSCOM SDIO card and it works great no probs at all, iv read some posts about the contollers on the boards wont be able to handle two devices at once.

In thoery I dont see any problems other than mounting it somewhere as surly the controller will just share the load as long as your not trying to use both devices at exactly the same time (not likely in my case) then it will be just like having one card in.