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Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: microsoft/linux on March 13, 2006, 12:35:37 am: Does anyone know of a cheap wifi card that works with OpenZaurus. This is for a 5500, so low power would be preferable, but price will probably be the deciding factor. Suggestions?
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: TheCrook on March 13, 2006, 09:19:17 am: Quote
Does anyone know of a cheap wifi card that works with OpenZaurus. This is for a 5500, so low power would be preferable, but price will probably be the deciding factor. Suggestions?
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I use the Origo/Senao - no problems at all, much better than the D-Link DCF 650-W I used to have.

Available from [a href=\"http://shirtpocket.co.uk/origosenao-compact-flash-wifi-card-p-84.html]ShirtPocket[/url]
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: bluedevils on March 13, 2006, 01:32:23 pm: isn't shirtpocket the one that's in trouble?
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: TheCrook on March 13, 2006, 02:51:28 pm: Quote
isn't shirtpocket the one that's in trouble?
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Could be - they certainly get a fair bit of bad press. I've bought the one item from them and found them OK although it was over a year ago. Probably wouldn't use them for anything expensive.
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: scheck.r on March 13, 2006, 07:04:52 pm: You can buy a Symbol Compact Flash CF WiFi Wireless Card LA-4137 from ebay. It's about $40 new, low power consumption and works with openzaurus out of the box(tried with Hentges ROM on C1000).
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: microsoft/linux on March 13, 2006, 07:26:18 pm: the symbols are $40 new? Why would one buy it from ebay then? how easy are they to find on ebay? Other suggestions?
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: Meanie on March 13, 2006, 07:35:58 pm: Quote
the symbols are $40 new? Why would one buy it from ebay then? how easy are they to find on ebay? Other suggestions?
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or try your local electronics shop and look in the reject bin. when I first bought my Z last year the SanDisk 128 card was like $ 240 here in Aus and I thought, shit too expensive. Recently, I found it lying in a reject/sales bin for like $60. what a few months do to the prices these days...
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: microsoft/linux on March 13, 2006, 07:44:37 pm: I thought the SanDisk 128MB card didn't work? Or maybe it was just the memory that wouldn't work.... Any chance either staples or radioshack would have something like this?
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: XorA on March 14, 2006, 07:29:08 am: SanDisk Connect+ works well for wifi, when I tested the IDE/Wifi at some time it tended to crash both functions so we turned off IDE detection in 2.6 kernel until someone works out how to get both working.
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: chyang on March 14, 2006, 08:21:54 am: Symbol card is great! I can find some 2-nd handed cards for about 20$ or so. But the international shipping may kill the deal.
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: anunakin on March 14, 2006, 08:29:53 am: I bought my Mercury CF-wifi, in country for about $30, second handed, in a e-bay like site.....
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: jan on March 14, 2006, 10:37:02 am: Quote
I bought my Mercury CF-wifi, in country for about $30, second handed, in a e-bay like site.....
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got new one on ebay for 22EUR by ADTEC (appearantly similar/equal to D-Links type2 cards). Uses prism chipset and works with all ROMs out of the box (cacko, pdaXrom, OZ) with C860. However I think I should have paid a little more to get a good one: Range and power consumption or suboptimal. (And I have 1700mAh accu)
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: microsoft/linux on March 15, 2006, 01:20:11 am: What about the LInksys WCF12? I've seen that on ebay for $35. THe local staples doesn't have CF wifi cards, and I believe radioshack sells the Connect+ w/ PCMCIA adaptor for like $130. Other suggestions?
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: lardman on March 15, 2006, 06:30:58 am: Linksys WCF12 works fine.

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Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: Red HamsterX on March 16, 2006, 03:47:45 am: The Linksys WCF12 (no visible revision number, 'Made in Taiwan') works perfectly with OZ 3.5.3 on my SL-5500.

I got one for roughly $40 CAD from my university's bookstore, so you might want to try asking at places like that before using eBay. (Shipping hurts)
Title: Cheapest Wifi Card
Post by: microsoft/linux on March 17, 2006, 12:20:42 am: there are no really local universities where I live. The closest one would be across the state. :-/ Is shipping really that bad on a small item?