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« on: July 30, 2004, 07:20:13 am »
Today received my order for a 256MB SD Card and a Bluemonkey CF Bluetooth card from Expansys Europe.  
Unfortunately the CF card they sent me was NOT a bluemonkey but a no-name card, which obviously does not work with the Z.   When I called the rep to inform her about the mistake she candidly told me that it has happened before to other people and that they DO NOT HAVE nor receive anytime soon the Bluemonkey card, so that I should either return, buy a more expensive card, or just plain suck-it up.  

What pisses me off is that I'll even have to pay for shipping to return the fscking thing...          
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2004, 07:42:00 am »
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What pisses me off is that I'll even have to pay for shipping to return the fscking thing...

I would suggest that you don't. If you received a product other than as was described when you purchased it, you should be protected under consumer law.

I don't know how much the postage would be, not much probably, but if you feel strongly enough as a matter of principle, I would quickly call Trading Standards to see what they say.

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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2004, 08:10:36 am »
I must have been fortunate then. I ordered my Bluemonkey card from Expansys and I got a Bluemonkey card.

w14 is right about consumer protection if they do not say on the Bluemonkey page that you could get another brand of card.

Out of curiosity, what does the command 'cardctl ident' say with this CF card in your Zaurus?
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2004, 08:26:08 am »
cardctl ident reports BT0100M

...but looking at this thread it might not be that bad after all...
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2004, 09:35:09 am »
We had the same problem with the last batch of bluemonkey cards we ordered.

But to be honest, they are quite easy to get working and look alot more attractive in my opinion.

Silver and Black match rather well with both all silver and Silver/Black C750.

Hence, we have decided not to retuurn them and will be updating our site to show the new ones instead.

Only annoyance is the flashing light is a bit intense and does not stop flashing. But like the Bluemonkey, it goes out on suspend and you just pop out/plug in to re-enable.

I know it's a bug, but I actually quite like it working this way. Built in security feature
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2004, 02:14:39 pm »
I'm just wondering about this offer at eXpansys UK, where they're bundling a Bluemonkey CF Bluetooth card with a PC Card adapter.

It's noteworthy for me because the bundle costs less than the price they're asking for the Bluemonkey card on its own, and I'd like to use the card with my laptop as well as my 5500. Does anyone think it's likely that I would end up with the non-Bluemonkey card, if I went for this bundle, or is there no way to tell?

Also, I'm a bit unclear how much more work is needed to get the black/silver card working, if indeed I do end up with one of these. Is this info going to be added to the HOWTO?

Thanks for any help - I've just upgraded my phone to a Motorola V500, and hope to get it paired with my Z before too long...

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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2004, 06:10:29 pm »
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I'm just wondering about this offer at eXpansys UK, where they're bundling a Bluemonkey CF Bluetooth card with a PC Card adapter.
That's what I ordered, and I got a Bluemonkey card with the PC Card adapter. Plus I can't see anywhere on the page anything about them possibly shipping another brand of card.
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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2004, 04:53:54 am »
OK, I took the plunge and ordered the Blue Monkey Bluetooth CF card/PC Card bundle from eXpansys. I'm now looking at it (they delivered it next day), and it is...

...the new "no-name" card and not the Blue Monkey one  Not that it really matters, so long as I can get it working (of which more in a moment), but it's a bit dodgy of eXpansys to advertise one product and ship another, especially when the BT card is apparently different on the inside.

The good news (in a manner of speaking) is that the card is functioning properly, and I've managed to get it working on my WinME laptop. It now pairs the PC with my new Motorola V500, and I can use the phone as a GPRS modem, as well as do OBEX file transfers over Bluetooth (mainly to transfer photos from the phone camera to the PC).

Now for the really tough part: the Zaurus  I've read the ZUG Bluetooth HOWTO, but it was written for the Sharp ROM and I'm using OpenZaurus 3.3.5 - do I have to do anything differently?

I Googled for "openzaurus bluetooth howto" and came up with a couple of possibilities:

* http://opie-bugs.oszine.de/oldwiki/index.p...ieBluetoothGprs - comprehensive, and includes setting up the graphical utilities, but I can't find some of the packages it mentions (bluetooth-modules, mainly) in the OZ feeds
* http://linux.mikeasoft.com/zaurust610orange.php - exclusively terminal-based (not that that's such a bad thing  ); I installed the "bluez-zaurus" OZ feed package he mentions, but couldn't locate some of the files and services he mentions

Is there one good, authoritative, working HOWTO for getting Bluetooth working on OZ, or can I just follow the ZUG HOWTO (even though it's based on the Sharp ROM)?

Many thanks,
Tim
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« Reply #8 on: August 24, 2004, 08:21:16 am »
[Edit: I wanted to delete this post of mine, but can't find an option to do so. Sorry for the interruption ]
« Last Edit: August 24, 2004, 08:25:37 am by tawalker »
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