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Title: CF Wlan card & PCMCIA
Post by: shobapond on August 31, 2004, 12:29:19 am

Hi

I just got myself a new SL5600 and now i'm planning to buy a CF Wlan card for it. Planning to get D-Link b'cos thats the cheaper that available .. i saw recently in some shops they selling those PCMCIA adapter cards that can support CF.

I was just wondering whether it is possible to use a CF Wlan card through the PCMCIA adaptor on a laptop to get wireles lan? Or do i need to purchase a special PCMCIA adaptor or anyone will do ?

thank for help

Title: CF Wlan card & PCMCIA
Post by: Guest on September 04, 2004, 04:43:37 pm

It will work on linux. I use a netgear cf wifi just fine. If you use windows, you might be out of luck, as the drivers available for windows is only for windows ce, or the like.

Title: CF Wlan card & PCMCIA
Post by: Michele on September 10, 2004, 11:50:02 pm

Same here.

For Linux, I've got a Linksys WCF12 with a PCMCIA CF adapter and it is the best card I've tried with Fedora Core 2 on my laptop.  I didn't have to do anything except configure it.  It worked right out of the box.

Unfortunately, it doesn't come with any Windows XP drivers, though.  I do have a few other cards in my inventory that work with XP but not as easily with Linux.