UPDATE-WCF12 and Zaurus 5500

[Warren Raquel]

Just lettin y'all know, the Linksys card I got was bad. I had my Zaurus and 
the card shipped to Sharp (at Sharp's cost no doubt) and they were very 
helpful about testing the device and the card. Overall my experience with 
Sharp's techs was a positive one, I actually talked with people who knew 
what they were talking about. My call with Linksys was just the opposite, 
someone reading off a script. Anyway, just wanted to let you guys know what 
the problem was and to give my thumbs up approval to Sharp's top-notch tech 
support (they even called me on Saturday to give me an update). Has anyone 
else had to actually call Sharp Tech Support about their Zaurus yet and 
what was your experience?

Now I have to get a new card which sucks because shipping it to either the 
place it was bought from (it was a gift to me) or to Linksys directly is on 
my penny. Sigh.

At 05:10 PM 1/15/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Well, I got my WCF12 card today for my Zaurus. I installed it while 
>running the Sharp ROM. I had to tweak the wlan configuration file to make 
>it work, but it worked, for about a minute before the screen went haywire 
>(which then fixed itself when I pulled the card out of the socket). 
>Eventually the screen went completely white and the Zaurus locked up.
>
>On to Opie. So I installed the latest 3.0 version of Opie and didn't have 
>to make any configurations. However, the same thing happened again. The 
>screen would completely go haywire until eventually the system froze with 
>a white screen of death. So. What's my problem? For about 10 minutes I was 
>able to connect to the Zaurus using an ssh connection while it was sitting 
>in it's cradle (via the wireless card) but when I barely touched the card 
>the screen once again went out of phase and the system froze up.
>
>Does anyone else have a WCF12 linksys card that they use on their Zaurus? 
>If not will someone with an SL-5500 help me test to see if it's the card 
>that's screwed up by putting it in their Zaurus?