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General Discussion / Networking

« on: March 18, 2005, 12:58:35 am »

I did switch my LinkSys WCF12 with a friend's NetGear MA701 and sure enough, the WCF12 had the same problems in his Z while his MA701 functioned perfectly in mine. While I am happy that I don't have bent pins, if the half-life of a compact flash wireless card is three months, the Z is going to be a much more expensive toy than I had anticipated. Or, I can give up on its packet-sniffing (Kismet, Wellenreiter) function, my purpose in buying it, and settle for its PIM capabilities.

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General Discussion / Networking

« on: March 16, 2005, 03:34:26 pm »

I have an SL-5600 with a LinkSys WCF12 card with exactly the same symptoms. The ROM is Sharp's original (3.01, I believe). The card has worked perfectly up until this week. The Z is about 6 mos. old and I have carried it in my pocket with the card inserted during that time. Another forum poster suggested that the card's extending beyond the end of the Z could have resulted in pin damage. As of yet I have not tested another CF card in my Z nor my WCF12 card in another Z and cannot rule out such physical damage.

Very occasionally the icon appears and I can then connect to an access point and also use Kismet.

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cardctl status shows

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3.3V 16-bit PC Card
function 0: [ready] but

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cardctl ident
provides no product information.

I would be "happy" to start networking without clicking on an icon if anyone could provide the correct series of terminal commands.