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Subject: Re: WiFi / 802.11b Problems with OmniBook 800CT

Author:
Matt Fargen

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Date Posted: 07:31:27 12/19/03 Fri
In reply to: Vincent 's message, "Re: WiFi / 802.11b Problems with OmniBook 800CT" on 09:20:11 11/02/03 Sun

>Hi,
>
>I have mine working right now. It works great and I
>use it around my house to surf the web and word
>processing with no problems.
>
>My card is also a no name brand but it uses firmware
>and software by a company that in my system is
>identified as CardBus. It uses the Realtek
>Semiconductor chipset. "Cardbus" is an Asian company
>and I dont know if they are related to the PCMCIA
>CardBus standard. Here is the url if you are
>interested. http://www.edimax.com.tw/
>
>It sounds like you are set up in ad hock mode. My
>experience with Ad-hock mode is that it doesnt work
>reliably beyond a few feet, but infrastructure mode
>works great. It's very speedy at 11mb/s and can send
>hundreds of MB to my P4 desktop in a few minutes. I am
>using an SMC Barricade Wireless Router that I bought
>used from a friend that upgraded his system to 54MB/s
>I frankly cant image a reason to do this because 11mb
>is very fast.
>
>When you set up your network make sure you match up
>your security setting on all machines, otherwise they
>will see eachother but wont talk.
>
>hope this helps,
>Cheers
>
>
>
>>Hi all!
>>
>>I've bought a OmniBook 800CT and tried to get it to
>>work with a no-name 802.11b PCMCIA card talking to a
>>D-Link DWL-520 (11Mbit) in my stationary PC.
>>
>>The weird thing is that they DO seem to "find" each
>>other and they seem to send some sort of handshake,
>>but that's about how fun it gets.
>>
>>I've now ordered a D-Link DWL-650+ (a 22Mbit
>>PCMCIA-card) to try with the OmniBook instead of the
>>no-name card (which have no URL's for update-drivers
>>or anything like that... weird...)
>>
>>Well, my question to everyone out there:
>>Have anyone actually got the OmniBook 800 to WORK in a
>>WiFi-network? And if so, how? :-)
>>
>>Yours
>>Pingo
>>Sweden

Without a CD rom or even the floppy drive, it is difficult. I had to remove nearly all the installed software because there was a conflict, but not sure where (maybe with Microsoft works?). Then I got the latest driver for my speedstream 1021 wireless adapter. I loaded that onto a compact flash and then using a CF-PCMCIA adapter I was able to load the drivers onto the 800CT. Then everything went OK on my win95 system except the default network protocol was IPX, and so I had to manually add the TCP/IP. After rebooting, then it worked fine. The newest 1021 adapter driver requires you to manually connect to the wireless access point or router (via software) every time you reboot your computer. I use a dialup internet connection for my home network, and it works fine (running on a windows XP Home edition).

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