Compatible 900c (ce4.2) wireless cards

Try Prism400.2577.cab from the second download. You can also try copying a single dll (prismnds.dll from Rich's site) to windows directory. After installation, do a soft reset. When prompted for the driver name, enter 'prismnds' without the quotes.

Ahh thank you very much, you guys are amazing! My only issue now is going to be battery life lol. I have a used battery, and without my CF storage card, USB thumb drive, and now wireless card, i was gettin prob 4-5 hours of normal usage. With all of these, using the internet, wordpad and media player, im sure thatll shorten to prob 2-3 hours max. But it's worth it. Thanks again, you guys are great

This means SS1021 works well on MP900C with CE.NET 4.2. Congratulations!

The NEC WarpStar card works great with MobilePro 900c. It's an Aterm WL11CB, aka PC-WL/11C (B). Works with the WLAGS461 driver, which is included (but you can get it from cmonex.net in the Lucent.zip package as well).

The only drawback, as I have recently discovered , is that it only does 801.11b (that means 11 Mbps tops) and WEP 128bit encryption (no WPA).

Edited by wirespot 2007-11-30 6:43 PM

Can somebody help me on decide which Wireless card should I get from my Nec Mobilepro 900c. The options I have are an AmbiCom WL1100C-CF which I believe supports WPA and a Sandisk SDWCFB-128-768.

Thanks in advance

The only other option... and I think the only 11g compatible card that will also give you access to WPA....

Is the I-OData card that stingraze sells. think it is about $48ish. It is a CF so will need a PCMCIA > CF adapter card but it should result in slightly better battery life and as I mentioned the other plus points above.

I don't have a 900c but I belive cmonex has tried the planex version of the same card and confirmed it worked but not sure if she did any extended testing. maybe she will drop by and confirm as I am sure 11g and WPA may be important features for some people.

Thanks

John

I'm using the Cisco Aironet PCM352 802.11b card on my NEC 900C running CE 4.2 (latest available official ROM) with the driver & Aironet Client Utility (v.2.72.12) downloaded from Cisco's website.
I've managed to update the firmware to the latest available version (5.60.21) which supports WPA (TKIP/PSK).
I can't really comment on the battery usage as my unit's battery is already aging & running low.

I agree the Agere ORiNOCO card works great on my MP900C. I love it. It is important when you are using the wifi card to have your unit plugged in to the ac adaptor, it does use a lot of battery power. and there is even a google program that shrinks the web pages so you can view things perfectly in the mp900c. You can get the cards on ebay very inexpensive and well worth the price. I really only use the wifi for emailing.

Could anybody help me with Ambicom WL1100 on Netbook Pro? It works with ambicom driver but the signal has a very low strenght. And It's seems it doesn't work with WPA (or am I missing something?).

Have you tried it with the generic Prism driver? IIRC, Prism 2.5 supports WPA; maybe the AmbiCom version is crippled somehow (kinda like the Proxim version of the Agere driver seems to be).

I will try it. Thanks

Prism driver works , but the signal strenght is the same . Could it be because i've updated firmware?

I would think that's a hardware issue. I don't know offhand if the WL1100 has an external antenna hookup; that might be your best bet.

No. It seems it has no external antena. Anyway, it works. I will try with other router, maybe it's not Ambicom problem.
Thanks

Ok, so the problem is not the card itsef (with wifi router i had great reception) . And it works with WPA which is great.