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Title: Hardware Question For Wired Cf Ethernet
Post by: nontrivial on January 03, 2009, 08:56:34 pm
Does anybody have an opinion on whether or not a particular wired cf ethernet card would work with angstom? Some guy on ebay (search for "socket ethernet cf card") appears to have a lot of them and I was wondering if was worth a shot.

James
Title: Hardware Question For Wired Cf Ethernet
Post by: Jon_J on January 11, 2009, 12:09:11 pm
I searched ebay and came up with this result:
http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw...p;_osacat=58058 (http://computers.shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=socket+ethernet+cf+card&_sacat=58058&_fromfsb=&_trksid=m270.l1313&_odkw=%22socket+ethernet+cf+card%22&_osacat=58058)

If this is what you found, this is the same card that I have and I haven't gotten it to work in any Zaurus distro, although 2.6.xx kernels are more promising than 2.4.xx kernels.
See my post below about this card:
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26392 (https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26392)
Title: Hardware Question For Wired Cf Ethernet
Post by: speculatrix on January 12, 2009, 06:40:34 pm
I bought a CF card from a seller here on the auction, it's a Hawking 10/100 HCF686TX

worked first time no problems with debian and zubuntu. it's too new to me to have tried it with cacko yet.
Title: Hardware Question For Wired Cf Ethernet
Post by: nontrivial on January 14, 2009, 12:50:52 pm
I ended up buying one and it works under debian (zubuntu) with the 2.6.23 kernel, so I assume it will work under Angstrom as well. Search for "SOCKET ETHERNET CF CARD" on Ebay and it is the all in one version that does not have a dongle. It is recognized as NEC2000 and so now I have 10/100 network card for $34 including shipping. I think he has like 30 left. One bad thing is it is very long and and makes typing pretty interesting, but oh well.

James