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5x00 Hardware / SMC2642 CF WiFi Works - Sometimes?

« on: May 10, 2004, 12:42:35 pm »

Thanks for the response. It does make sense, but could dirty CF holes in the card not have the same effect? If the laptop was capable of putting more juice into the card, it coud run the card while the Z would flounder?

Whatever the case was, I left the CF card in my pocket and my wife ran the jeans through the washer. I caught it before she put it in the dryer, but the card had sat in the pocket through a warm wash, full soap, and a spin cycle. Now I can\'t get the card to NOT work.

I don\'t recommend this method of troubleshooting, your mileage may vary, etc.

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5x00 Hardware / SMC2642 CF WiFi Works - Sometimes?

« on: April 30, 2004, 09:00:06 am »

I got both my 5500 (Sharp ROM 3) and my SMC2642W CF WiFi card second hand, so this shouldn\'t surprise me, but they don\'t like to talk to each other anymore.

They worked great for a few months, so great that I hardly ever removed the card, even when I carried the Z in my pocket (I think that may have been a mistake).

About a month ago, I tried to connect, and the network icon and the CF icon disappeared from the bottom tool bar. I \"cardctl eject\" and then reinserted the card and everything worked. Slowly, though, the problem occurred more and more until now I\'m luckey to get the CF icon to appear when I insert the card.

Some things I\'ve noticed:

1. The CF card works in my ThinkPad.

2. CF memory cards seems to work fine in the Z.

3. When the CF icon appears, but not the networking icon, cardctl ident returns the name of the card, but no other information, whilst it returns several strings when both icons appear, including what appear to be IRQ settings.

4. When I do get everything is recognized correctly, the CF card\'s LED starts blinking, and I have to cardctl scheme CardSuspend to get it to working mode.

5. Sometimes inserting the card causes the screen to flicker, go completely blank, or to have diagonal lines scroll across it. Removing the card causes the screen to return to normal.

6. Even before this was a problem, I frequently would get \"Network Device Busy\" alerts when I tried to disconnect from an access point.

I\'m hoping the problem is nothing more than a dust inside the CF card\'s connection holes, but how would I clean that and wy would the card would in my laptop?

Any help would be appreciated.

-jeremy

PS - I\'ve been considering OZ. How\'s WiFi networking under that OS?
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