Re: [Thinkpad] TP X22 and WiFi PC Cards - recommendations?

Peter,

thanks for your advice. unfortunately, Dell France
doesn't offer this card, not even without a discount.

but I assume this means any Orinoco Gold card should work
in a Thinkpad?

cheers,
Jakob (living in France).

peter machule said:

> Go to Dell Business ,
> Search for 430-0284 to find the Dell TrueMobile 1150
> PCMCIA Wireless Card priced at $49 - auto 20% off = $39
> with free shipping. This is a rebadged Orinoco Gold
> card.
> Info / updates ..other babble
> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,5878424~root=wlan~mode=flat
>
> Great Card ...Great price
> go thru ebates and get a 2% kickback ..
> http://www.ebates.com/index.jsp?referrer=machule@triumf.ca
>
> ;-}
>
> ..peter..
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jakob" <jakob@jfix.com>
> To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 6:14 AM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] TP X22 and WiFi PC Cards -
> recommendations?
>
>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently bought a Thinkpad X22 (2662-G95, i.e. no
>> wireless built-in) at eBay hoping I could use one of
>> my
>> no-name wireless PCMCIA cards.
>>
>> The card is a Prism II-based Gigafast AEX 721 which
>> works
>> OK on my Toshiba Portege 3110 CT and also on a Compaq
>> Presario.
>>
>> However, although it apparently installed all right,
>> the
>> connexion freezes. By this I mean that data transfer
>> first becomes extremely slow and then stops, and on
>> the
>> little control panel-type display, the signal strength
>> as
>> well as data transfer rates don't update.
>>
>> As these cards work fine on the other laptops, I am
>> wondering if this might be a Thinkpad-related problem.
>>
>> Am I the only one having this type of problem? What
>> cards
>> are people using? What do you recommend? I am quite
>> interested in 3com's card with the XJACK retractable
>> antenna, but wanted to have confirmation of people on
>> this
>> list first.
>>
>> Please cc: me as I am on the digest.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jakob.

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