Networking the ePods

Discussion. The most up-to-date available information can be found on Ken Segler's famous I-Appliance Discussion Board. Check it daily (or, if you're life is lacking, more than once a day) for the latest news.

Guidelines. Speaking of the Discussion Board, "jkgamer" provided these incredibly useful general guidelines for determining whether a particular LAN card will work:

• must be a PCMCIA network card
• ePods can only handle 10Mbps or less (not the faster 100Mbps)
• true NE2000 compatible or Proxim wireless types should work
• if not NE2000 or Proxim types, the card MUST have Windows CE drivers
• drivers must be MIPS compatible
• drivers must be installed to the ePods \windows subdirectory

Resources. Here are a few links that may prove helpful:

• Microsoft's Official Hardware Compatibility List for WinCE 2.11
• Chris De Herrera's Windows CE Connectivity FAQ
• Wavelan CE drivers
• SMC EZ Connect driver
• Symbol Spectrum24 drivers for WinCE 2.11
• Orinoco WinCE drivers
• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.1
• Required files enabling ActiveSync on the ePods (install to both the \epods system\ifc and \windows subdirectories)

These are the cards which reportedly work. Note that the economical LinkSys EC2T is on sale for $37 here. The Discussion Board nicknames of those who claim success are listed in parenthesis. Specific questions or pleas for help should be directed to those individuals there.

• Addtron AWP-100 802.11b with these Intersil generic drivers (Wirelessly+from+ePod)
• Aironet 4800 (Gene)
• AmbiCom AMB8010 with no driver needed (Groch)
• Cisco Aironet 340 (Gene)
• D-Link DWL-650 with these Intersil generic drivers (Steven)
• LinkSys EC2T 10Mbps (jkgamer)
• LinkSys WPC11 802.11b card with Compaq drivers from here and information from this discussion board thread (Smakz, Starfire)
• Lucent WaveLAN Turbo Silver wireless with an Apple AirPort (n6mod)
• Novatel Wireless Merlin for Ricochet Service (saleh)
• Orinoco Gold PC card (HcRUL)
• Orinoco RG-1000 wireless card (serisman)
• Proxim Symphony wireless cards (jkgamer, saridnour)
• RangeLAN2 cards from Proxim with "proxim.dll" file from proxim.com (crazyRay)
• Ricochet Service PCMCIA card by Novatel Wireless Merlin (saleh)
• Ricochet Service "standard issue" external wireless modem (HcRUL)
• RoamAbout Wireless Network Adapter by Cabletron/Entrasys (New2CE)
• Skylink Express 10Mbps PCMCIA card by Allstar Electronics, detected as NE2000 (bholio)
• SMC EZ PC Card 10 (Ajediday)
• SMC SMC2632w EZ Connect Wireless using this driver (saridnour, Wirelessly+from+ePod)
• Socket LP-E CF Ethernet card (Glitch, n6mod)
• Socket LP-E Low Power PC card (Rich)
• Sohoware Ethernet PCMCIA ND5120 Revision R2 (Rich)
• Symbol Spectrum24 card 802.11 (not 802.11b), using driver from link list above (swan)

• 3COM 3c589D card (Ajediday)
• 3COM 11Mbps Airconnect Wireless Lan (Rich)
• 3COM 3C589D (Sinner, Billings)
• IBM Etherjet 72H4041 (Glitch)
• LinkSys NP10T even though it's NE2000 type (Bruce)
• LinkSys PCMPC100 or PCM100 (10/100) card (jkgamer, epodan, Glitch)
• Megahertz 10BT card (Zonyl)
• Xircom CE2 (Sinner)
• Xircom IIps (Sinner)
• Xircom PS-CEM28 (Glitch)

Know how to use any of the following with the ePods? If you do, and I'll revise the site.

• Acer's Warplink wireless networking
• using ActiveSync via ethernet
• using ActiveSync via USB (perhaps with help from here)

Browse your desktop's C drive when using a LAN card. Two methods have been described so far, one by "New2CE" and another by "Glitch". New2CE says to simply use Filestor.exe and enter the path \Desktop\C to access the desktop hard drive. Glitch recommends using the "net" command in the Command shell (the program named "cmd.exe" in the ePods \windows subdirectory): "'Desktop' is the name of your desktop machine, and the shares will show up in the NETWORK folder." A few critical commands using this method:

• [\] net view Desktop (to see what can be shared)
• [\] net use DskTp-C //Desktop/C (to set up the share called "DskTp-C")
• [\] net use (to display the active shares)