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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: 2 stars
Summary: Was good at first
Review: Worked well for the first four months with my maestro. Now the card seems to get hot and the screen goes blank. Have to soft reset my PDA to get the card working again.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Works fine.
Review: This product seamlessly installed into my iPAQ 3850 and linked to my Linksys BEFW11S4 router in about 10 minutes.

It does suck quite a bit of power. I would recommend having a good battery in your unit (in my case I have an extra one in the PDA compact flash sleeve).

Range is fine. I can use it anywhere in or around my 2700 sqft two story house.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 0 Star - Bad Card for Dell Axim
Review: I had all kinds of problem with this card. The first time I installed it, it will not associate with my WAP. So I used LinkSys online support, which recommended to reinstall it. After re-installation I was able to associate with my WAP. It used to take 10 mins to scan for my WAP. I reinstalled it, another recommendation from Linksys support. I was able to scan pretty quickly, but was very inconsitent when I would open IE or MSN.
The Linksys support was not really helpful. I bought NetGear card, and it worked like a charm and no problems so far

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Not the first choice for Zaurus wireless (close second?)
Review: Now that I've got it working it is solid. It is connecting to my SMC base station at full speed and staying connected. Browsing wireless from Opera works great! Given that the you must edit files in the Zaurus to get this working, I would not recommend this product for all. Find a wireless card that is on the supported list if you want to just plug it in and have it work. Do yourself a favor and download the open-source Wireless Monitor application before attempting to diagnose a problem. It will tell you if the Zaurus didn't recognize the card, about signal strenth, show network detection activity and the SSID of the network Zaurus connected to. If you poke around in the configuration files for the Zaurus there is an entire list of cards it will just recognize (/etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf). If I did this again I would do more research on if a comparable card that will just plug-and-play. Multiple Linksys cards including WCF11 are already in the wlan-ng.conf file. More advice: place your base station well away from the rest of your equipment just to eliminate any possibility of the other electronics messing with your signal.

This is what I added to /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf to get it working:
card" My nifty WCF12 wireless card"
manfid 0x028a, 0x0673
bind "prism2_cs"

It is signifigantly easier to type in using that itty-bitty keyboard! I didn't come up with it, just found it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't work
Review: I wish I could give it less than one star. I bought this card for my IPAQ and it will not work. Have spent countless hours with what Linksys calls tech support and now they tell me I have to pay to return it. Keep shopping.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: waste of time...
Review: Despite the claims on the box, the linksys drivers don't work with my PDA (HP Jornada with SH3 processor running WinCE3.01).

big thumbs down, it's getting sent straight back where it came from.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Oh, the miserable products can sell...
Review: One cold, lonely star for this one. The linux drivers, while free and virtually unsupported work flawlessly on virtually any platform i've tried this card in. While this is a great thing for a few geeks out there, most people aren't buying gear for Linux and Linksys is touting this as a Windows product.

The windows drivers simply do not work. They have never worked -- regardless of upgrade. I've tried the WCF12 in two Compaq/HP Ipaq's (36xx, 38xx) and a few Dell laptops, all with no success. Linksys's technical phone support was less than useful, repeatedly offering me the same drivers I could download on the website. Their email support didn't fare much better, responding each time with a different and incorrect canned response.

I'd highly recommend ditching and not buying linksys gear for the end-unit. Their Wireless Access Points and Cable/DSL Routers are solid and fairly functional -- But virtually all of their PC-side gear (PC Cards, PCI Cards, CF Cards) borders on un-useable. Between the lack of (Competent?) Technical support and twitchy drivers, I'm ebaying off all of my Linksys gear. ;)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Fine until dies!
Review: It works fine, eaven with a compact flash adapter and a pcmica notebook, so you only need one wireless card for both pocketpc and laptop, but one weak after I boughtit it dies, it dosent work any more! Im angry because I live in mexico and I cant use the waranty. bad choice

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good product but no good support...
Review: I always had faith in Linksys products and so I bought this item. Contrary to what they say, I couldn't get the Config Utility to work on my Casio Cassiopeia E-125. At first, the driver supplied with the product did not work, so I downloaded the one from their site, which again didn't work. Finally, I contacted them and was promised a latest driver within an hour. Three hours later, I had nothing, so I had to call again. After being on hold for 10 minutes, I was once again promised a latest driver. This time I got one. It got the card to work. I was able to surf the internet, but the Config Utility didn't work. I called back. Again I was on hold. Then I explained my problem, but I guess they didn't understand and once again I get the same 'latest' driver.

I gave up. I searched high and low on the internet but couldn't get any solution. Finally I downloaded the Compaq WL-100 driver from Compaq, which I found out was a generic driver. I installed that and 'zap' everything worked.

It is sad that the product being so good, the drivers and support ... Anyway, I am happy using this item with the Compaq driver although, frankly, I feel cheated.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Good price, but not 100% compatible with E-125
Review: I purchased this card because it was priced right and because it claims to support CE 3.0 and above devices.

However, the Linksys installer supplied on the CD complained that my Cassiopeia E-125 was not supported (even though the E-125 is CE (PPC) 3.0 device) and it refused to install the driver.

The Linksys website was not helpful because there was no updated driver available for it at the time I purchased the card.

Linksys support was even less helpful, responding with scripted texts like, "Please consult the support manual and make sure you are using the driver supplied on the CD that came with the card".

I successfully tricked my E-125 into using the WCF11 drivers and
I've been using it to this day without any problems.

A few months after my initial inquiry to Linksys support, they released an updated driver for the WCF12, but the installer still lodged the same complaint against my E-125, so I'm still using the WCF11 drivers.

If you have an E-125, you can use this card, but you'll have to manually install the WCF11 drivers for it.

Also, the device will never turn off (for power-saving) if the WCF12 card is plugged in to the E-125, so beware that you'll need to manually turn the device off, or simply remove the card when you are finished.

I use the card primarily for faster synch speeds and faster backup speeds. Over USB, the synch and backup speeds are much slower than when I use the wireless card to connect and synch or backup.


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