I’m looking for a wireless Ethernet (802.11) card for my iPAQ – any suggestions? It’s an iPAQ 3630 running PocketPC 2002. I have a PCMCIA expansion jacket, and also have a Type-1 CompactFlash adaptor card (very much like this one) - so I guess I can use ethernet adapters in both formats. :confused:

Has anyone here used a WiFi card (that is the same as 802.11, right?) with an iPAQ PDA? Can you recommend any particular card, or brand? I want to be able to encrypt traffic, but I understand that's a standard feature - true?

Cheers...
Ben

bttt for suggestions

The Orinoco (aka Lucent) Gold card is the best out there as far as I'm aware, and it just so happens I'm selling one :) Brand new, never used, still in box.

Have a look around and make me an offer if you're interested. (andym172@[no spam]yahoo.com)

Andy.

Andy, the web site makes no reference to support for WinCE (specifically PPC-2002). You sure it's supported?

Ben

I have a D-Link DWL-650C (i think...) for mine.

Works fine - cool strenght tool and other utils as part of the driver too.

Ids

Fatman - Yes, I'm 99.99999% sure it works.

I used to have an Ipaq (running WinCE) and was going to use the card in conjunction with that but never got round to it.

Andy.

Used both a Cisco 350 full size PCCard in the PC Card sleeve and a Symbol Wireless Networker CF card in the CF card sleeve.

No problems with with either of them.

Thanks for the responses. I think I'm going to go for Linksys kit: the WCF12 card and the Wireless Access Point. The card is guaranteed to work with the iPAQ and PPC2002 and they're pretty cheap, too.

Appreciate the input :)

(edited because my seplling is rubbish ;) )

[Edited by Fatman - 1/26/2003 1:36:08 PM]