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CASSIOPEIA
PETER LONG (AKA SHORTY)
I own a Cassiopeia A-11A with 4 Mb of RAM running a Roamabout 11Mb
card on two AA batteries. The drivers also work with the WaveLAN [1]
Bronze 2Mb card.
See article at
http://www.wireless.org.au/stories.php?story=02/05/07/6912827 -- it's
dead Jim
for more details.
THE SETUP IS...
Toshiba 440CDT laptop with ADSL access and Roamabout 11Mb card. Using
the registry hack it is now assigned as an AccessPoint [2]. Also
running on this machine is Active-Sync - used to syncronise the
Cassiopeia with the PC and Win Proxy (Internet sharing program) to
allow wireless access to the internet. My original WebGear [3] 2Mb
FHSS [4] cards came with a 2 user version of WinProxy [5]. Some hints
for setting up [6] Wireless Networking on a Pocket PC can be seen at.
Drivers for Windows CE 2.0 [7]
Don't forget to install the network drivers on the Cassiopeia. They
are located on the WinCE [8] CD under Optional stuff.
By increasing the font in Explorer you can actually read most web
sites. Of course some of the more modern flashy sites don't work.
Also have now figured out why the handheld could not connect to the
local network. Seems that the other machines didn't like the name
hand_held. Take out the _ and it works nicely on the network. Now
happily downloading via wireless to handheld device.
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TOSHIBA E740
xscale 400mhz handheld with BUILT IN 802.11b. still trying to figure
out which chipset it has.
review [9]
fcc page [10]
I also use one of these - very succesfully - connected to my Lucent
RG1 in access point mode. I believe it uses a prism chip set.
The range is excellent (around 30m inside the house, drops back to
2Mbps in rooms which are behind two solid brick walls, otherwise stays
on 11Mbps. The RG1 is on a window frame and gives me around 50m range
in the garden on that side of the house.
The RG1 is connected to my proxy server via ethernet, and provides
live access to the web, e-mail and ftp, as well as any shares and
files on the proxy server and any other PC running on the LAN. Very
cool to run videos and wma files off the harddisk on my desktop PC
while sitting in the garden under a tree....
I've also experimented with MS Portrait (video conferencing software)
between the desktop PC and the e740 - it works just fine! Can't think
of any particular use for it at home though .... maybe it will be
cool once our wireless community network is up and running.
Cheers,
Joe in Bendigo
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HP IPAQ H3870
I'm using a Symbol low power 802.11b CF card with my iPAQ running
Linux.
The drivers I'm using are the Spectrum24 drivers [11], but the above
site is now returning the following message...
'' spectrum_cs driver has been committed to the CVS repository of the
Orinoco project [12]. Please use
the CVS version or any releases off the HEAD branch made after
February 2, 2004
(there are none of the time of this writing). The feedback should be
sent to
the mailing lists for the project. Support requests sent by personal
e-mail
are likely to be ignored. ''
This driver has been packaged up in an .ipk [13] for Familiar by
Nils Faerber.
-- CameronMcCormack [14]
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IPAQ H3630
With CF cradle and CF to PCMCIA adapter
I use a Roamabout CSIBD-AB 802.11b PCMCIA card with the drivers
available from their web site.
Plenty of softare out there... FTP/flash/better browsers than
explorer/Shoutcast....
Frank
bbt@myrealbox.com
wetant.net
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IPAQ H3630
With PCMCIA Cradle..
I use an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card with the drivers available from
their web site.
I have a pigtail which plugs into this with a Cantenna.
I've upgraded it to Pocket PC 2002 and run mini-stumbler and VXUtils
on it which provide Ping, Traceroute, Port Scanning etc..
Donovan
dono@dono.org
Links:
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[1] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WaveLAN
[2] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?AccessPoint
[3] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WebGear
[4] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?FHSS
[5] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WinProxy
[6] http://www.cewindows.net/wce/wirelesslan.htm
[7]
http://www.orinocowireless.com/template.html?section=m52&envelope=90&page=2757
[8] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?WinCE
[9] http://sprinklerhead.com/toshe740.htm
[10]
https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/oet/forms/reports/Search_Form.hts?mode=Edit&form=Exhibits&application_id=979640&fcc_id=GKRPOCKETPCE740W
[11] http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/symbol/
[12] https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/orinoco/
[13] http://www.handhelds.org/~nils/socket-cf-wlan.html
[14] http://melbournewireless.org.au/?CameronMcCormack
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