Wireless Cf With Best Support

[kkazakov13]

Ok ... as my Planex is giving more and more problems, it needs replacement. I don't want to get another planex, because the plastic broke so easily ... in the first 5 days or so.

I'm searching for a not-so-expensive ( max about 35-40 euro with shipping ) and compatible with beta 3 and latest pdaxrom versions.

I've encountered so far linksys wcf11 which is about 50$ with shipping, BUT i don't have any idea if it's fully compatible with pdaxrom ... i could not find anything in the forum that says "ok it works great" or the opposite.

Any ideas for WIFI cards ? The most important thing is the compatibility with beta3, then with latest pdaxrom, and then with OpenBSD. And after the compatibility comes the durability  I want that plastic to last at least few months .. and no - I don't drop it.

[walkman]

Ok ... as my Planex is giving more and more problems, it needs replacement. I don't want to get another planex, because the plastic broke so easily ... in the first 5 days or so.

I'm searching for a not-so-expensive ( max about 35-40 euro with shipping ) and compatible with beta 3 and latest pdaxrom versions.

I've encountered so far linksys wcf11 which is about 50$ with shipping, BUT i don't have any idea if it's fully compatible with pdaxrom ... i could not find anything in the forum that says "ok it works great" or the opposite.

Any ideas for WIFI cards ? The most important thing is the compatibility with beta3, then with latest pdaxrom, and then with OpenBSD. And after the compatibility comes the durability  I want that plastic to last at least few months .. and no - I don't drop it.

I recently purchased D-Link DCF 660W. It works with pdaxiiv13v2, r198 and Angstrom. Seems to be fairly "usual" card. The only problem were problems with orinoco vs. hostap drivers, but to sort out that is easy. Design seems to be robust enough, although I do not know what are your requirements. It goes went on German eBay for a fixed price 45.- EUR (new) and used can be bought for around 20-30.- EUR. Check e.g. here. Pulster sells it for 69.-.

[kkazakov13]

What about this one ?

http://cgi.ebay.de/New-Agere-802-11B-Compa...VQQcmdZViewItem

I'm still searching for a cheaper variant

[Capn_Fish]

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

[snk4ever]

My symbol spectrum24 is low power consuming and small but I always have difficulties using it in Cacko or pdaXrom so I wouldn't recommend it.

[mscdex]

My symbol spectrum 24 works fine in both cacko and pdaxii13, works out of the box on the latter.

[adf]

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

I think I got mine from ebay for less than 30. I agree, good card- Id had both linksys and d-link previously (the d-link got slightly better range,  but it was massive)

[alijames]

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

I think I got mine from ebay for less than 30. I agree, good card- Id had both linksys and d-link previously (the d-link got slightly better range,  but it was massive)

I also agree on the Ambicom WL1100-CF. I have had them working fine on Cacko, pdaXrom and Debian Titchy, with WEP and WPA.

Currently a few Taiwanese sellers have got them on Ebay for £20/E28 + p&p. I got a second one from one of these guys a couple of months ago, and it even came with up-to-date firmware!!!

HTH,

Alistair

[alijames]

The Ambicom WL1100C works for just about everything AFAIK, and it hasn't broke on me yet (the plastic I mean, not that other stuff has). The drivers load fine for it.

I believe it was ~65 USD

I think I got mine from ebay for less than 30. I agree, good card- Id had both linksys and d-link previously (the d-link got slightly better range,  but it was massive)

I also agree on the Ambicom WL1100-CF. I have had them working fine on Cacko, pdaXrom and Debian Titchy, with WEP and WPA.

Currently a few Taiwanese sellers have got them on Ebay for £20/E28 + p&p. I got a second one from one of these guys a couple of months ago, and it even came with up-to-date firmware!!!

HTH,

Alistair

Also the Ambicom is physically the smallest CF Wifi card I have found so far.

Alistair

[scheck.r]

My symbol spectrum 24 works fine in both cacko and pdaxii13, works out of the box on the latter.

Mine works out of the box too(don't know for r198). However it doesn't support WPA and has medium range.

[kkazakov13]

My symbol spectrum 24 works fine in both cacko and pdaxii13, works out of the box on the latter.

Mine works out of the box too(don't know for r198). However it doesn't support WPA and has medium range.

Thanks for all suggestions ... seems symbol spectrum is the cheapest one. I don't need a long-range one ... just one that works  I use WEP encryption + filtering by MAC addresses that works amazingly good.

Also the Ambicom one is not a bad choice, only it's price. Right now I don't have a job, so any euro is calculated

[Drake01]

Thanks for all suggestions ... seems symbol spectrum is the cheapest one. I don't need a long-range one ... just one that works  I use WEP encryption + filtering by MAC addresses that works amazingly good.

Also the Ambicom one is not a bad choice, only it's price. Right now I don't have a job, so any euro is calculated

I've always had good results with my Spectrum 24.  If you only need WEP, I think the Symbol will be a good card for you.

I wanted to upgrade from WEP to WPA, so I purchased the Ambicom card.  This card doesn't work for me because the card either shuts off after a random interval, or it causes my C1000 to freeze up and the screen goes white.  There was some conjecture that it's pulling too much current.  I know that a couple others have complained about this same problem.  Since some people claim to have success with this card, it may only be certain revisions or manufacturing runs that are affected.

[kkazakov13]

Well, my wireless router has wireless security based on MAC address. So you basically CAN connect, get internal IP, everything looks great BUT ... you get no traffic at all - incoming or outgoing. That's why WEP + MAC filtering is the perfect combination for me - works(worked) with my planex cf card, and my desktop machine also connects to it.

I guess I'll stick to Spectrum 24. Thanks , guys! That's a community!

EDIT:
I found one used and cheap but they don't ship to Bulgaria  

http://cgi.ebay.com/SYMBOL-SPECTRUM24-LA-4...1QQcmdZViewItem

I'll try to ask a friend in the US to get it for me and send it ...

[arzgi]

Well, my wireless router has wireless security based on MAC address. So you basically CAN connect, get internal IP, everything looks great BUT ... you get no traffic at all - incoming or outgoing. That's why WEP + MAC filtering is the perfect combination for me - works(worked) with my planex cf card, and my desktop machine also connects to it.

I guess I'll stick to Spectrum 24. Thanks , guys! That's a community!

EDIT:
I found one used and cheap but they don't ship to Bulgaria  

http://cgi.ebay.com/SYMBOL-SPECTRUM24-LA-4...1QQcmdZViewItem

I'll try to ask a friend in the US to get it for me and send it ...

Both MAC and WEP can be broken in minutes. Sure better than nothging, but if you have evil minded neighbour who knows
what he is doing, it is just a small slow down.  I'm not expert, but that was what I was told when I was purchasing wlan-adapter.

I have D-Link Air DCF-660W, works nicely in pdaXii13, supports WPA.