Hot Deal? Siemens Wireless Networking Equipment @ Circuit City

[Flair]

Cardbus is a 32-bit standard that is backwards compatible to PCMCIA. Most laptops made in the last 4-5 years have Cardbus. To make sure you can go to Control Panel, System, Hardware, Device Manager, PCMCIA adapters and see if you have a CardBus controller.


To make it simple
For older laptops use PCMCIA, newer laptops (Pre-Installed with Win 98 and above usually) you can use PCMCIA or CardBus

 

[MaxDepth]

DEAL DEAD.

Rats, didn't take them long.

 

[galawdawg]

My local CC had three Siemens wireless USB adapters for $19.98 each and several powerline ethernet adapters on the shelf this morning. They had been OOS for several weeks. Might be worth a trip to your local CC to see if they have additional Siemens wireless networking gear in stock!

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Originally posted by: MaxDepth
DEAL DEAD.

Rats, didn't take them long.

Well it has been over a month. What do you expect?

 

[Placer14]

Originally posted by: wfay
Some guys hacked around with one of these Siemens Homeplug Powerline 802.11.b Adapter units and turned a light into a light+wifi access point in his house. It was on Slashdot recently.

Here is the link !

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[TheHimalayas]

Can someone confirm that the CompactFlash WiFi card provided with the powerline AP (SS2521) is a LinkSys WCF11? The BroMax drivers don't work, and the LinkSys drivers don't work either. What's the trick? Thanks.

 

[wfay]

Originally posted by: Placer14
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doh! ;-)

 

[gr8tango]

I picked up the switch and the wifi card. Good deal.

I've got some comments on the card.
- It comes with a neat AP sniffer, found three other APs near my place
- It needs it's own AP sniffer, it uses a TI chipset which didn't work with netstumbler or airsnort
- the Range is less than my D-link dw-120
- I had to upgrade the drivers, otherwise it wouldn't see my AP.

Hopefully that helps someone.

 

[TheHimalayas]

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doh! ;-)

I saw that, but I didn't see anyone confirm using the CF card standalone in a PocketPC.