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Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: sstrungis on December 25, 2005, 10:41:30 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com/CF-LAN-ETHERNET-COMPAC...1QQcmdZViewItem (http://cgi.ebay.com/CF-LAN-ETHERNET-COMPACT-FLASH-IPAQ-DELL-HP_W0QQitemZ5845536055QQcategoryZ3728QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

What do you all think?  It's chock full of specs!

Compatible out of the box with the C series or Cacko?

Is it a good buy?  Any other possibilities?

Thanks!
Scott

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: jfv on December 26, 2005, 10:51:45 am

The pictures didn't load when I looked at the ebay page and the text of the ad does not say which brand/model is it. Generally ethernet cards work except for power issues. Socket, for instance, makes a 10/100 card and a low power one. The former doesn't work because the Zaurus can't provide enough power to it, while latter works fine. Don't know anything about the seller and I guess the price is OK. But I would try to find out which brand and model it is before buying.

Felipe

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: sstrungis on December 26, 2005, 10:58:56 pm

I have no idea what the brand name is.  I was able to grab the photo from the page and attach it to this post.  I will ask the seller for more specifics.

Thanks!
Scott

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: sstrungis on December 29, 2005, 12:35:37 am

I fired off an email to the seller of this card and got this information about the card:
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BILLIONTON is the brand name. Power consumption is 42mA/3.3V.
The CFLT uses the Tamarack chipset, but I don't know what the power requirements are or if it will work on a Zaurus. If the Zaurus has a standard CF or PCMCIA slot and supports a NE2000 driver then it will work fine.
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So can anyone tell me if this card will work in a C series machine?

Thanks!
Scott

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: TRIsoft on December 29, 2005, 04:25:02 am

Hi Scott,

it looks like the old version of the Billionton "CFLT2-10B", better
known as the famous BIL-10BT in our manual.

The 10BT cards are working fine with all Zauris. There're only
problems with the 10/100 MBit type. These won't work.
You may find this card also on our site : Billionton Lan/Modem cards (http://www.trisoft.de/en_znetz.htm)

///TRIsoft

Marc Stephan

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: raybert on December 29, 2005, 10:56:35 am

I have a Hawking 10/100 card and it works great.  I haven't noticed any unusual power problems with it.  I bought it off of MicroCenter's return table and I think I paid ~$30.  Froogle shows some for ~$39. (http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=hawking+compactflash+ethernet&pid=4771236962484873185&oid=3489518056254913313&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p)

~ray

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: GadgetGuy on December 30, 2005, 03:51:47 pm

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I have a Hawking 10/100 card and it works great.  I haven't noticed any unusual power problems with it.  I bought it off of MicroCenter's return table and I think I paid ~$30.  Froogle shows some for ~$39. (http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=hawking+compactflash+ethernet&pid=4771236962484873185&oid=3489518056254913313&btnG=Search+Froogle&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p)

~ray
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Or you could use a USB to Ethernet adapter for an even lower price ( and leaving the CF slot for other uses)

Title: Good Buy For Cf Based Ethernet?
Post by: sstrungis on January 02, 2006, 12:54:45 pm

Well, admittedly, I wouldn't mind keeping my CF slot free for storage.  What sort of adapter works for this?  Do they come with the appropriate cabling as well?

Scott Strungis