Ethernet Card Support

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Compatibility and Support > Ethernet Card Support

(Copied from www.zauruszone.com)

Out-of-the-box working cards

Cards working without any special configuration

• Ambicom - AMB8610 (10 Mb)
• Hamlet HA-HCF450 (10 Mbit)
• billionton CFLT-10B (10 Mbit)
• Hawking - CF686TX (10/100 Mbit) -- worked out of the box with 2.0.37
• Pharos PE-CF100 (10/100 Mbit)
• Sitecom CF-002 (10 Mbit) -- out of box with rom v3.10
• TRENDnet TE-CF100 (10/100 Mbit)

Good cards

Searching the internet suggests the following CF Ethernet cards can be made to work

• Socket - EA-2900-117
• Pretec - CXL 10BT-3RP
• Xircom - !CompactCard Ethernet 10
• Zonet ZCF1400 CF
• Conceptronic 100CF - 10/100 Mb

Not so good cards

People have reported difficulty getting these to work

• Socket 10/100 (note their 10BT-only card is said to be OK). See the note below to configure the 10/100 card.
• Zonet ZCF1400 CF. (but some say it works great)

Other cards

The Socket appears to be the cheapest of these available (in the UK). Also the Hamlet is very cheap (~ 50 euros in Italy). However I found an unbranded CF Ethernet card at half the price claiming NE2000 compatibility, and Tamarack 3299CE chipset compatibility. This worked following the basic procedure below.

Howto - basic.

The procedure appears to be ...

• Insert card.
• Press the Home button to get to the Settings page...
  • Select "Network & Sync".
  • On the "Services" tab press the "Add" button.
  • Add a "LAN-TCP/IP" service.
  • Fill in the details for your network.

Howto - if problems

• Install the terminal app.
• Insert card.
• Open terminal and type command: cardctl ident.
  • This should show that your card is recognised. e.g...

Socket 0:
product info: "CF", "10Base-Ethernet", "1.0", ""
function 6 (network)

• Edit /etc/pcmcia/config ...
  • Add a section for your card if missing.
  • Use the pcnet_cs driver for NE2000 compatible cards.
  • Save the file and run /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart.
• Press the Home button to get to the Settings page...
  • Select "Network & Sync".
  • On the "Services" tab press the "Add" button.
  • Add a "LAN-TCP/IP" service.
  • Fill in the details for your network.
  • The "Network & Sync" app's "Current" tab should show the IP-address as active.
• The /sbin/ifconfig eth0 command will show the cards hardware address
• Use ping etc, in the terminal window, to test settings.

How-to for the Socket 10/100 Ethernet CF Card on the 5600 (or 5500 flashed to 5600)

• Edit /home/etc/pcmcia/config ...
  • Add a section like this

card "Socket 10/100 Ethernet CF Card"
 manfid 0x0104 0x0145
 bind "pcnet_cs"

• I re-booted the Zaurus (may not be necessary) then followed the above instructions to continue.

Note that the information on the Socket web page regarding compatibility of the 10/100 Ethernet CF card does not include this information, and provides configuration info which is almost entirely erroneous.