+++ Monday 14 July 2025 +++

Installed the WPA2 update on Palm TX
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Today I installed the WPA2 update on my Palm TX.

This is scary, because it wipes the device.

Palm TX WPA2 Enterprise Security Upgrade
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When I was working at the university, I had installed this
upgrade, to be able to connect to the university wifi
network. This was very needed because the digital calender was
rather dynamic, sceduled appointments could appear and disappear,
move to a different time, a different room or even to a different
building.

Last year, when I wrote the ROOPLOCH 2024 phlog post [1], I
discovered that the Palm still held university content. After
writing the post I did a factory reset, loosing the WPA2 upgrade
in the process.

Backup 
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Because the upgrade wipes the device, first thing is to perform
a backup.

Last year I installed the Palm Desktop on the Power Mac G4. Now
the G4 is up and working again for the Old Computer Challenge, I
could backup the device.

SD-card
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The documentation states that it requires a SD-card.

It turned out that the Palm TX doesn't support 4G SD-cards. The
Card-application just reports that there is no card inserted.

After I had discovered a 1G SD-card the bottom of a drawer, the
Card-application notifies it sees a card. After reformating and
copying the WPA2-upgrade directories to it and inserting it in the
Palm, the devices recognized the launcher and the upgrade could
be started.

The Palm performs a kind of factory reset, you have to
recalibrate the touch screen, and set the date and time again.

Backup restore
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Using the Palm Desktop the backup was restored. 

This is also a bit scary, the cable connection is not 100%,
sometimes it reports errors.

The second try every thing worked fine and I got all  my settings
and content back :)

Connecting to Wifi
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When scanning, it discovers our home wifi router.

Strangly, when selecting a connection method, you have to select
"WPA-PSK". The encryption can be kept at Auto (TKIP-AES).

The first connection attempt failed. After leaving the attic and
moving closer to the router, it connected and I was able to open
http://occ.deadnet.se in the browser.

Using the Overbite app I could open some Gopher pages.

Slow!
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Opening web pages is slow. 

I had not expected that even opening Gopher pages would be slow
too.

Anyway. it is nice to be able to connect to the network again.

[1]: gopher://box.matto.nl/0/rooploch-2024-phlog.txt

Last edited: $Date: 2025/07/14 15:07:45 $