Mitac Mio 168

I recently acquired a Mitac Mio 168 with a broken input connector, after a
careful repair I thought that everything was OK as it works OK in my car and
charges from the battery.
I've now acquired all the other bits and pieces enabling me to connect it to
my computer, but after installing the correct software I find that I get a
message telling me that its 'not connected', looking at the PC board around
the input connector reveals that it had originally broken a tiny surface
mounted component when it got pushed up inside the board, I know that I
haven't the faintest cat's chance in hell of finding out its exact value (or
even if it's a capacitor or resistor as its unmarked) this doesn't worry me
unduly as I got the pocket PC for free and it works OK as a satnav with the
Tomtom Software.
However my son in law (who gave it to me) now tells me that it's not really
a problem as he supplied me with a little wireless dongle which plugs into
the SD card socket, and apparently all I need is "just a cheap wireless
device to add on to my computer" for full connectivity.
I have to confess to not really having much of a clue about what I really
need and wonder if any kind soul on this newsgroup could point me in the
right direction with a basic cheap and cheerful solution. TIA Ivan

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Why do you want to connect to the PC?

Mainly, PDA are connected to PC's for updating Outlook calendar/appointment
data, if this isn't needed, and you only want to transfer files, then do so
by using
an SD card. Wireless would work, but can be a pain, is not needed and a
waste
of money.

Hi. A broken socket on a 168 is a very common fault, mine was repaired under
warranty with a new mainboard.

A cheap and cheerful solution.Get a card reader, my one cost £4.99 from a
garage.Insert SD card in reader, copy files to card from PC, insert SD card
in 168 transfer files to device memory or leave on card.Programs generally
go on device memory maps,music, pictures etc stay on card.
Problem solved? Doug

Thanks to both of you for your replies. I did try downloading a programme
onto an SD card to try and upgrade the windows media player (it only seems
to be able to handle .wmv files) which I was informed would upgrade it to
accept other files (such as mpg4) for pocket PCs, however when I attempted
to run it, it gave me an error messages telling me that it was in an
unacceptable format, despite the original source saying that it was actually
for the Mio 168 and also for that particular version of windows, I therefore
presumed that I would actually have to have some kind of direct connectivity
to the Internet for this kind of upgrade to work, are there codecs available
to download that are more efficient than .wmv for pocket PC's ?

Unless you have cabinstaller and put the cab files on the sd card, you can
only transfer files and not install programs which usually does require the
168 to be connected to the PC, as mine does.