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bmsleight

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« on: December 24, 2004, 05:50:04 pm »
Has anyone used one of these ?
http://www.semsons.com/comflastopcc.html

I thought It might be fun to buy and try. Any thought, feedback, guesses ?

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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2004, 06:03:06 pm »
I think I've read somewhere it can work with Zauriis but it can take only 16bits pc cards ... Also it would drain a lot of power from your Z ... btw what's the use of such a card when you have a 4Gb internal HD and USB host capabilities ?
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« Reply #2 on: April 27, 2005, 08:10:31 am »
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I think I've read somewhere it can work with Zauriis but it can take only 16bits pc cards ... Also it would drain a lot of power from your Z ... btw what's the use of such a card when you have a 4Gb internal HD and USB host capabilities ?
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If you put a pccard with usb 2.0 connectors you have a usb 2.0 host, don't you?

EDIT: without the good voltage though, it delivers only 3.3V
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« Reply #3 on: April 27, 2005, 08:57:17 am »
Can't be a pccard, has to be a pcmcia card - the interface is different on the two. Pcmcia are pin compatible with CF, PCcard aren't.

That's my understanding anyway.


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« Reply #4 on: April 27, 2005, 09:03:25 am »
OK Dumb question number 45634232341 Would this be able to drive a PCCard DVD drive?  I have an idea to rip tracks straight to the Z as this is all I use my PC for at the mo......
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« Reply #5 on: April 27, 2005, 09:13:58 am »
No it won't drive a pcmcia dvd drive.

And Definitely no it won't drive a USB 2.0 interface card or we'd all be using it... They are CARDBUS (32-bit) and not compatible.
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« Reply #6 on: April 27, 2005, 11:04:33 am »
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No it won't drive a pcmcia dvd drive.

And Definitely no it won't drive a USB 2.0 interface card or we'd all be using it... They are CARDBUS (32-bit) and not compatible.
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I just ordered one and will post on all the compatible cards that work when I receive it (I've got pcmcia usb 2.0 interface, lan adaptator and wifi adaptator)
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« Reply #7 on: April 27, 2005, 12:09:26 pm »
got a Vodafone Wireless Connect 3G/GPRS, any chance that it will work with it?

I reside in Greece
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« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2005, 01:58:20 pm »
steliosx.... I don't know, but it's unlikely as only the old style 16bit cards work...
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« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2005, 12:19:23 am »
I think it will work. Most RF cards (GPRS, EDGE, CDMA etc.) are 16-bit as soon as they don't need a great transfer. Cardbus cards have a golden strip near edge - it's a good way to distinguish them. This card doesn't have one.

But I think that there are CF versions for most of these cards. As well as CF USB host, CF CDMA and GPRS modems do exist.
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« Reply #10 on: June 18, 2005, 04:28:00 am »
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CF CDMA and GPRS modems do exist.
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Is there any CF CDMA card that can be made to work on Verizon?
The only CF CDMA card I've seen is only for Sprint, and their coverage is nonexistant here.
GSM doesn't work up here either, because 1.9ghz doesn't have the range.   Only Verizon
works in the fringe areas of Northern California, and they don't sell any CF cards.
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« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2005, 10:34:55 pm »
i got one back in 2002 and have used it with an sl5500 without any probs since.. the main card i used it with was a dlink pcmcia wireless card...but have tried with an orinoco and an ne2000 netword card. only had to change configs to load correct modules for the cards..

apart from that it all works ok for me... my understanding is pcmcia and cf have direct pin to pin mapping, only diff is the size of the cards and connectors... so thoeretically any pcmcia should work ok.
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« Reply #12 on: June 19, 2005, 05:30:07 pm »
Well, as I've posted before, CDMA modems do exist . Here in Russia CDMA standard isn't welcome (they just want to have transparent networks ) so the only CDMA CF modem that is available and is able to work is Ubiquam UM-100 modem sold under Skylink local brand name. It's damn big, damn heavy (due to battery pack; without is, it's said, modem will burn our Z's by overcurrent of a CF slot) and damn expensive (almost $400). It uses IMT-MC-450 (cdma2000) standard as a network protocol and 1XRTT, IS-707 as data transfer protocols (couldn' figure it out better ). We've also heard 'bout other CDMA modems but the only portable wireless modem standard that's really widespread here is 15-20 kbps GPRS...
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