Wireless Compact Flash Card

[denmage]

Has anyone gotten a wireless compact flash card to work with PPC 2003? I just bought a Linksys WFC12 and it didn't work. I used their online chat support and was told that the driver is not available for PPC2003 yet, but they expect it to be ready by the end of the year. For the $80 I paid, I expect it to be ready now...

Denis

[RGT]

I use a NetGear MA701 and it works great. I'm sure you can pick it up for well under $80 online.

*edit* After checking pricewatch, I have discovered that the lowest price right now is $65. Ecost.com has free ground shipping!

[JOBLEMG]

If you want your WCF12 to work with PPC 2003 please read these instructions.

http://www.aximusers.com/forum/index.php?s...?showtopic=2682

[chromegalant]

I have the Socket Lowpower wireless CF card ( a bit costly).. it came highly reccommended at the Dell forums. Supposed to have great range and low power consumption.

I will post a review of my findings as soon as my Wireless Router arrives

[andybrown]

i have the truemobile wlan card and it works just fine with my dell axim...i got it straight from dell

[The Hodag]

I also have the Dell Truemoble sub since upgrading to PPC 2003 it seems much slower in uploading web pages. Anyone else experience this problem?

[chaos]

This card is a mess (the Linksys WFC12). I've tried the drivers on the original CD (Setup Wizard version 1.05 according to the CD label), the newest, publicly posted drivers on the Linksys site (ftp://ftp.linksys.com/pub/network/WCF12_011904.exe), the beta drivers (which I got by calling into Linksys three seperate times until I finally go to a 'Sr. Tech Support Engineer' who emailed them to me(unfortunately I can't post them here, but it hardly matters because they don't seem to work either), and finally the Senao drivers mentioned in this thread. I had luck with, I THINK the Senao drivers because I did eventually get a wireless connection both at work (with WEP enabled) and at home (a wide open connection [naughty me, I have to secure that!]). Unfortunately, the card sucks power from the battery like there's no tomorrow. It certainly won't last a weekend's worth of moderate wireless use on a single battery charge. Consequently, my iPAQ lost it's configuration! Argh... so here I am trying to get the thing to recognize the card again and I'm going through the same problems I did last time... IMHO the Linksys WFC12 is not ready for use with Windows Mobile 2003 (aka Windows CE 4.0).

I have heard that the latest posted drivers (see link above) do in fact work, but you a) install them, B) soft-reset the PocketPC, c) insert the card, d) remove the card, e) re-instert the card and it should work. It didn't for me, but according to a different thread on another board, it does work.

[chaos40]

Ok, I finally figure out (after reading MANY posts on vairous boards) how to make the PocketPC 2003 (aka Windows CE 4.2) work with the Linksys WCF12.

See this thread and jump to the bottom to see my detailed instructions:

http://www.aximusers.com/forum/index.php?s...opic=2682&st=0&

Enjoy!

[batuckan]

Hey folks

I was having the exact same problem yesterday after I flashed the bios on my axim x5.

I had no problems with the linksys wcf12 and PPC2002. It was only when I went to winmobile2003 did my linksys card not work..

anyway, I tried a bunch of things, newest drivers from linksys, used the senao? and intersil drivers, NO JOY.

the only thing I had found that actually worked was the linksys beta driver for the wcf12 card, which finally worked with winmobile2003.

If you google it, you should find it. anyway, I have them burned onto cd and up on my server just in case...<g>

hope this helps.
mike