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Linksys WCF12 Wireless-B Network CompactFlash Card (Type I)

Linksys WCF12 Wireless-B Network CompactFlash Card (Type I)

List Price: $144.95
Your Price: $63.54
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Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Card's neck breaks too easy
Review: After only a few weeks of owning this card, the plastic connecting the thicker black radio portion of the card cracked where it meets with the metal Type I portion of the card. This resulted in the card being useless and only receiving a singnal after wiggling the head of the card. Even before the head started to crack, the card had very poor connectivity. Keep in mind this card is also a lot longer than most of the other compact flash WiFi cards out there, and that the issue of it breaking is very common.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: WCF12 doesn't work with the Dell Axim
Review: I purchased the WCF12 Wireless Compact Flash Card and it DOES NOT WORK with the DELL. I returned two cards to Linksys who offered great technical support and they tested and return several new cards and the cards seemed to work for a while and then they would stop working.

I spent countless hours trying to get the cards to work and I realized that I shouldn't have to spent this much time everytime I want to go wireless.

Linksys really needs to realize that If the card doesn't work with the DELL then they need to stop offering it until they are 100% sure it will work.

Now I'm searching for a card that will work with the DELL. My feeling is this, when I want to go wireless I should be able to plug in the card and it should work and that's all there is to it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: PNP with Zaurus
Review: Although others reported the need to manually configure their Zaurus 5500's to get this card to work, I did not have any problems. I upgraded my ROM to 3.10 from the Sharp site and apparently the new ROM has all the appropriate settings for this card already. As it claims it was 'Instant Wireless' for me, and at a really good price.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Keeps Dying
Review: I have had to return it twice for replacement and need to a third time. It also burns power like an inferno. The radio's pretty weak too. I'm comparing it to Symbol's Wireless Networker that I had, lost, and couldn't afford to replace.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Pocket PC 2003, try this driver!
Review: Just to echo the other reviewer, it does not work with PC 2003. I emailed Linksys, and they replied and make it clear that all their wireless CF products do NOT support PC2003, yet (as of Aug 3, 2003). They are working on it, but no time frame available.

Linksys is really good though: I emailed them saturday night, and they replied sunday!! I have some of their other products and they work flawlessly, and their customer service has always been one of the best I've seen among tech companies.

(Update Aug 18) Today, I read from newsgroup that it works with a generic driver WLAN_ForWinCENET400.zip. Amazon won't let me put urls on review, so just search the web for this driver. Too bad I had already returned the CF card and missed out the rebate period, or I'll try it out myself.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Doesn't work with Pocket PC 2003
Review: Linksys does not yet have drivers for Pocket PC 2003 OS.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Does not currently work with Windows Mobile 2003
Review: No driver support for Windows Mobile 2003, Linksys supports told me "They are working on a driver, please check the website for updates."

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Does not function with Pocket PC 2003!
Review: I purchased this card after reading several glowing reviews of how well it work with the Dell Axim pocket pc. They all left out one detail though... the OS version.

This card does not work on the Dell Axim with Windows Pocket PC 2003! I was able to test in on another Dell that happened to be running ppc2002 and it installed flawlessly.

I can't say whether it works with other pocket pc's running 2003...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: great with Zaurus 5600
Review: This product is great with My Zaurus 5600.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works with Dell Axim w/new drivers
Review: Bought this from eBay. Works great with Dell Axim handheld PDA. I had a Netgear Compactflash Wireless card before, but it didn't work with my PDA. I called Netgear customer support, and they said the Netgear card was incompatible with Dell Axim's StrongARM processor. So I got the Linksys WCF12.

I read the reviews here and other websites, but it only got mediocre ratings. I also read in some cases that it didn't work with the Dell Axim. Well, it does after you download the latest driver software from Linksys' website (my driver version that I'm using is 1.0.7). Just follow the quick guide and setup shouldn't take more than 5 - 10 minutes. I think the problems some people may have with setting the CF up was that they didn't follow the instructions step by step: i.e., if you plug in the CF card into your PDA BEFORE setting up the driver, your PDA automatically configures the CF's settings (incorrectly I might add), which prevents it from working.

Very simple to set up. However, like some others mentioned before, the card does get pretty warm when its on. Sucks up battery life too pretty quickly, but that's to be expected from any CF wireless card.

I've been searching quite a few CF wireless cards before I got the Linksys WCF12, including Netgear's version and Linksys' older WCF11 card, but the WCF12 seems to work great with the Dell Axim.


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