Re: Any SDIO or CF wifi card for CE5 - that has been proved to wor

No, you don't want to *install* the cab file -- you're not interested in the
actual files being copied; you just want to be able to get to the files to
add them to your nk.bin. You just want to run the PC-side MSI to get the
driver CAB for the right processor type placed in the ActiveSync directory.
From there, you can use the Windows CE CAB Manager to see what's in the CAB
and extract the driver DLLs and whatever else is in there. You *are*
running an ARMV4 processor in your device, right? WM5 DLLs aren't going to
work on an x86...

Paul T.

"Nick Farrow" <NickFarrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:C39487EB-29DB-4A50-9F42-0349B22F9241@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Paul,

Thank you again for the reply.

I had tried the WM5 cab, but it immediately poped up a dlg box say it was
not a valid CE file image - it happened with the other cards to so I
assumed
this meant is was targets at a previous CE image or a WM5 would not
install
on CE5. Making a debug CE5 image did not reveal very much else other than
it
seemed to have in invalid top level window handle.

So a WM5 cab file should install then -any ideas what it giving this
invalid
file popup ?

I was not aware of a cabviewer tool so thats a great avenue to continue
with.

Thanks for the definites and the advice

nick

"Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]" wrote:

Summit Data Communications has a CF card and driver for it. The Cisco
350-series of cards works fine, although it's obsolete. The Demarc Tech
cards work with the Prism2 wireless driver that comes with CE5, but I'm
not
sure that they have CF.

Forget about what will "install". Extract the appropriate CAB file for
your
type of device from the WM5 install. Use Windows CE CAB Viewer to see
what
it installs and where, what registry entries it uses and, by examining
the
DLLs that it's trying to install, what it needs from WM5 that you don't
have
in your device. That combination of information should allow you,
assuming
that the driver license allows it, to build the driver for your target
card
directly into nk.bin.

Paul T.

"Nick Farrow" <NickFarrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:80088AFA-4561-4830-866B-2E4E739FAAA0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

I have spent the last month trying to get various wifi cards to work
with
a
Karo PXA270 board that supports a CF and SDIO slot. Has any one got any
wifi
cards working with CE5 - that I can bank on ?

I have tried Spectec SDIO SDW820- no CE5 drivers, when built with
older
mfce30 dll it crashes devices.exe. Lots of help from Spectec but no
release
that works.

Dlink DCf660 - CE drivers wont install - built for older CE version ?
Linksys WCF12 - CE drivers wont install, built for older CE version
Socket SD WLAN2 - only WM5 drivers - wont install to CE5

I would appreciate anyone who has anything that works to pass on their
secrets!

Thanks very much

nick







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