I have a very ugly habit of buying and testing unknown PCMCIA cards. These are usually WiFi cards, network cards (LAN) or memory cards. Sometimes I can find something interesting. This time I managed to get a WiFi card. For a penny 🙂
This card is released by Enterasys Networks, Inc, and the model name is ‘RoamAbout’. This is 5V and 16-bit card, of course. And – what is most important – working with Newton!
What is interesting, Newton WiFi driver recognise this card as a ‘Cabletron RoamAbout’, which is on official Newton compatible WiFi card list.
Next week I will do couple tests with this card.
Ps. If you want to check which WiFi cards works with Newton, that list can be helpful: WiFi cards compatible with Newton
I ran through your posts but never saw a mentioned follow-up (unless I accidentally missed it somehow?) how did you manage to get on with this particular card and more importantly, which MessagePad did you load this up on and what can you really do with it? (send an e-mail I gather?)
Cheers!
Hi Clint! As I remember that card worked with WiFi driver + MoreWiFi add-on pkg.