Re: Zaurus and Dlink CF WIFI

I have ended up with two Pretec wifi cards.  They both work fine.  One came
with a CF to PCMCIA adapter so I can use it with my notebook.  That one is
currently being used by my sister.  The other I got when I bout a
replacement Z off ebay, and still works fine.

On 8/10/06, Mark Duckworth <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:24 -0500, James D. Bearden wrote:
> > Mark,
> >
> > > Wondering a couple things.  I'm on my third Dlink DCF-660W and it's
> > > toast now.  I'm done with these CF wifi cards.  Anyone know if USB
> wifi
> > > devices work, specifically the netgear MA111?  I assume they do, but i
> > > can't tell if it's using wlan-ng or hostap or what as I don't know
> much
> > > about how wifi on linux works.
> >
> > I went through three DLink DCF-660W cards myself, and ending up selling
> my
> > Zaurus because of it. It looks like it might just be a Dlink issue,
> though.
> > I bought a new Zaurus and a CF wifi card that was reccomended on this
> list.
> > I haven't had time to play with it, but when I asked about the dlink
> problem
> > I don't think people quite believed me.
> >
> > James
>
> The first one broke, started coming up as anonymous memory sometimes or
> sometimes it would come up as DCF-660W but garbled in some way.
> Sometimes the light wouldn't come on, sometimes it would come on and
> stay on.  Sometimes it would appear to work but simply not.  I figured
> out that by applying gentle pressure to the antenna downwards it tends
> to work.  The first card I was rough on.  I carried the zaurus around in
> my pocket all the time.  I always positioned the zaurus so the card was
> facing up and was careful about how I walked but it broke.
>
> So I got warranty replaced figuring I had a defective card.  Same thing
> happened in only weeks.
>
> So I got another one, this time being ever so careful with it.  Always
> removing it when carrying the zaurus in a pocket, keeping it in a case,
> etc.  2 months later it's toast.  In a fit of anger, I busted the case
> open to the DCF660W and came to find that applying pressure between
> where the metal shielding meets the antenna and the top of the board
> causes the card to work again.  I hate the external antennas on these
> cards.  They're completely zaurus incompatible (from a holding it and
> thumb typing perspective).  I ended up getting by for a while with no
> casing around my antenna (lots of questions that resulted in), and a
> heavily folded piece of paper wedged between the metal and the board.
> The paper was thick enough that the top of the CF slot on the zaurus
> caused downward pressure on the board in this spot, this made it work
> pretty reliably, but from what I can tell there's no way to open up this
> card withotu doing some damage like I have.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
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