Guest fUNKUS Posted February 5, 2006 Report Posted February 5, 2006 Kodak Wi Fi 802.11b SD Card I have just got my new HTC MAgician (T-Mobile Compact II) and while looking for a wifi card to use i have found that Dixons have a Kodak WiFI 802.11b SD card on sale for $10! Having purchased this product i discovered that there are no official PPC drivers for this card :evil: . Having searched this forum i have found discussion of this card and although i have found nothing encouraging as yet i thought it prudent to post here just in case anyone has found drivers that will work with this product. Please post if you have any info or hacked drivers compatible with Windows Mobile 5 :) Ps: since this card is on sale for only £10 surely its worth someones while to hack up some drivers or perhaps use those of a similar card, an unsrupulous person might make a few bob on ebay...theres a little insentive for those ellite haxors out there :idea:
Guest fluffcat1 Posted February 5, 2006 Report Posted February 5, 2006 Kodak Wi Fi 802.11b SD Card I have just got my new HTC MAgician (T-Mobile Compact II) and while looking for a wifi card to use i have found that Dixons have a Kodak WiFI 802.11b SD card on sale for $10! Is this designed to make their cameras WiFi? Still v.cheap! Better if you can get it working mind...Are you feeling brave enough to crack the plastic open and see what chips are inside? This will speed up the process of identifying drivers. Richard
Guest fluffcat1 Posted February 5, 2006 Report Posted February 5, 2006 They are on dixon's site for £9.87 plus £2.99 delivery. Tried ordering 2 ( max you can buy) but gave up after 10 minutes of their clunky ordering system bombing out.... clicky dixons deal £9.87 save over £40 was £49.89 Optional 3 yrs coverplan £39 Standard Delivery £2.99 For the Kodak EasyShare One 802.11b Compliant Secure Digital Input/Output (SDIO) Card Requires SDIO enabled SD slot Richard
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) It is good.....hope we get em working!...in aid of that ill whip out my trusty tool kit and take some photos of the chips 4 u :) Ill post my findings fUNKUS Edited February 6, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) OK wow that was fiddly! i had to break away some glue but im confident i can reassemble the item with a bit of glue...but heres what i found I've noticed that the large M on the chip could possibly be AA but its impossible to say. I've started a search for these details...any help would be appreciated :) fUNKUS Ps: sorry about the photo quality, the one thing camera phones cant do is a clear close up :D Edited February 6, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest gilesjuk Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 It's a Marvell chip. About Libertas WLAN Family The Marvell Libertas family of 802.11g WLAN solutions includes the (88W8010/8335) client, (88W8000G/8510) access point, and (88W8010/8510H/88W6060) home gateway. In addition, Marvell also offers one-of-a-kind solutions for new, emerging Wireless LAN applications such as the All-into-1™ (88W8000G/8515), which combines many features in a small, portable form factor, and Marvell’s LiveAP™ http://www.marvell.com/press/pressNewsDisp...o?releaseID=430
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) WOW thats amazing ill go try out the drivers and software, although the actual case says 802.11b not g...wonder if you misread it or if it does both? ...... ..... It turns out im having trouble locating any drivers for Windows Mobile 5 only those for xp/ 2000/98 or ME, are any of these comaptible with Win Mobile 5? or are mobile drivers very different? Link to driver site: http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverSearchResults.do Its prob one of these: Libertas 802.11g(:) Client Solution Libertas 802.11b Client Solution Edited February 6, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 6, 2006 Report Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) This is a link to some code i found for Marvell ppc drivers, its some kind of patch...might reveal something to someone with the right knowledge http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc/patch?id=1142 PROGRESS! Heres a more promising source of the code form www.chipworks.com but you need to be a member of the website to view all the details....however it does say this: http://www.chipworks.com/WebReports/ShowOv...p?ReportID=2364 'This BiCMOS IC supports both the 802.11b and 802.11g modulation schemes.' if that is true this is very good news!!! I also found this diagram of the tranciever: http://www.analogzone.com/netp0819a_schem.jpg fUNKUS :) SOMEONE NEEDS TO FIND OR MAKE PPC DRIVERS FOR THIS...54MBPS SDIO CARD!!! IT ONLY COSTS £10 Edited February 7, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest fluffcat1 Posted February 7, 2006 Report Posted February 7, 2006 All sold out on the website now, and none in my local branch, looks like I can't play too :cry: Richard
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 7, 2006 Report Posted February 7, 2006 Well to be honest its looking unlikely that we will find drivers unless someone knows of another SD wifi card that uses the Libertas chip, then perhaps if the harware is the same the drivers will work...... DOES ANYONE HAVE OR KNOW OF A SD WIFI CARD FOR WINDOWS MOBILE THAT USES THE MARVELL LIBERTAS CHIP? fUNKUS
Guest fluffcat1 Posted February 7, 2006 Report Posted February 7, 2006 DOES ANYONE HAVE OR KNOW OF A SD WIFI CARD FOR WINDOWS MOBILE THAT USES THE MARVELL LIBERTAS CHIP? fUNKUS There are more specialist sites that may have the info - perhaps sites based around war-driving or other such wifi pastimes / apps? Lots of people use pocketpc's for war-driving, so there's bound to be someone who's tried it. Richard p.s - no need to shout.
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 7, 2006 Report Posted February 7, 2006 (edited) Thanks mate, didn't mean to shout, just trying to show the reader my question a bit more clearly hehe...sorry BTW do you know about windows mobile drivers? or if there is any kind of Win xp to Win mobile 5 driver conversion tool? so i could use the xp or 2000 drivers.... i know its a long shot but hey if the toothfairy was real i'd want to know :) fUNKUS Ps: Thanks for the help Edited February 7, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest kodakwifi001 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 funkus, keep us updated mate. what is your progress, any links to anything helpful would be nice. cheers mate.
Guest kodakwifi001 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 btw funkus i've heard that the kodak wifi is a rebrand of a spectec card. however no luck following this up. there website seems useless.
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 (edited) hello mate, although it pains me to say this im afraid that this is as up to date as i am! I havn't ported drivers before and i wouldn't know where to begin, the last time i programmed anything was on my old psion 3c (from the late 80's!).and the Epoc programming they used then has evolved far too much with the development in smart phones for me to help (im not sure if EPOC is still present in mobile 5 but it is still used alot). With regards to the spectec card i have heard similar things and as it happens the spectec card is the cheapest i can find so ive ordered one. Perhaps it will reveal something to me although to be honest i bought it cos i dont expect the kodak wifi to work. i'll try the spectec drivers now just to check :). There are windows drivers available for the kodak card so lets hope someone who has an ability to port these drivers sees the value of these cheap cards. fUNKUS PS: ive not quite given up yet :D Edited February 10, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 I tried the Spectec drivers for windows mobile 5 and they dont work on the kodak card im afraid. fUNKUS
Guest kodakwifi001 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 Good to hear mate! Keep us posted. So these Kodak WIFI cards definitly do not work with any pocket pc's - mines no here yet.
Guest kodakwifi001 Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 btw about this porting business, I have a little knowledge with programming a few years back, maybe this could motivate me to actually produce something. I do have the feeling that this is far beyond my potential, i'll read up on some stuff and see what I can do.
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 10, 2006 Report Posted February 10, 2006 well that would be great, the only problem with this card is the software, the hardware is identical to other wifi sd cards, we know this because the Marvell (the chip maker) website says so in their blurb about the uses of this particular chip, its designed origionally for mobile/ppc wifi. It's just that kodak sell them cheap cos they aim them at their software at cameras (which are expensive enough!) and dont make other drivers/utils. I'm positive that with the right knowledge someone could take the origional marvell chip drivers for xp or 95/98 and port (convert) them for windows mobile 5. For all we know there is an identical card being used by a different company under another name, its just hard to find out what chips each card uses without breaking open alot of hardware hehe. I verry much doubt that marvell made these brilliant chips that use such little power and only sell them to Kodak, it would defy sense! Give it a go mate, it cant hurt. although it can take a while i imagine so anyone keen to get on wifi soon should probably bite the bullet and spend the 50 odd quid on a new one (that works). fUNKUS ps: The links to all relevant info and drivers are posted above (page1) pps: don't worry i'm not gunna stop investigating when my spectec card arrives cos im obsessed with this, especially sice marvell imply that it can use 802.11g....thats 54 mb/s!
Guest fluffcat1 Posted February 11, 2006 Report Posted February 11, 2006 The Marvell 88W8010 is also in the PSP. http://www.edepot.com/reviews_sony_psp.html Wi-Fi Marvell Libertas 88W8010 RF Transceiver Marvell Libertas 88W8380 ARM9 Processor 802.11b(g) WEP and AES (802.11i ) hardware security engine. QoS (802.11e) Quality of Service. Which also means eventually PSP's could be firmware upgraded to 802.11G. Richard
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 11, 2006 Report Posted February 11, 2006 The applications of wireless g speak for themselves, how many psp player would like to use 54mb/s!.........cmon haxors
Guest fUNKUS Posted February 21, 2006 Report Posted February 21, 2006 (edited) Got my spectec card today but im still playing around with drivers and settings to try to get it working :). Looks like im probably gunna end up spending as much time on this one as the kodak one....although having said that i see a new little icon on my start bar....progress? Out of interest i compaired the Kodak card and the spectec cards dimensions and they seem to be different, the kodak card is a few mill longer than the spectec one so it looks unlikely that they are the same hardware. fUNKUS +ADDITION: After spending over 10 hours trying to get this card to work im gunna start a new thread about the spectec card. Beginning to wonder is T-mobile have some sort of GPRS 'lock' to stop wifi cards from working! Edited February 21, 2006 by fUNKUS
Guest devild Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 Funkus did you ever get the driver sorted. I'm only asking because I have a Kodak card and have the same problem!!
Guest FrozenLord Posted June 19, 2008 Report Posted June 19, 2008 Hi everybody. I was just curious if someone has found any method to get the Kodak WiFi Card to work. I have recently bought one and was hoping to finally enjoy WLan on my iPaq but haven't found a way to use it yet. Sorry if this topic has already been sufficiently covered but the search didn't bring up anything of use. Any help would be great PS.: I know that this thread was dead for over two years. But wouldn't it be gread if someone had found a solution?
Guest TFGBD Posted June 30, 2008 Report Posted June 30, 2008 I'd hate to resurrect this old thread but I found a very interesting website while searching google for Marvell 88W8010 SDIO drivers. http://www.embeddedworks.net/wlan/oem_cf_80211g.html The EW-XG-880M item that EmbeddedWorks sells contains a Marvell 88W8010 with optional CF or SDIO interface and ARM Windows CE 4.2/5.0 driver support. While it depends how different the hardware is, this product sounds like just what we need in the way of drivers for this Kodak card. Perhaps if someone asks nicely, EmbeddedWorks will send their driver for this device if requested.
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