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Re: USB pcmcia card for ipaq

From: Vito Miliano <>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:53:37 -0600

On Monday, January 12, 2004, 4:33:07 PM, Jobe wrote:

JB> Has anyone found any pcmcia usb cards that work on the ipaq? all I
JB> can find on ebay are cardbus and thus unuseable. I would like to
JB> hookup to a usb hub and use mouse, keyboard and usb camera.

I'd be concerned about trying to use a USB camera.  That's an awful
lot of USB bandwidth, and it's a 16-bit (ISA) bus.

If you're running PocketPC on your iPaq, you can get a Type II
CompactFlash PCMCIA adapter and use the Ratoc USB host card:

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/cfu1u.html

If you're using Linux (e.g. Familiar), then you can port the Zaurus
driver:

http://paipai.org/~humorum/english/zaurus/cfu1-driver.html and
http://paipai.org/~humorum/pukiwiki/pukiwiki.php?ZaurusCfu1_dist

I also talked to a gentleman named Andrew Steele who was interested in
getting the Ratoc working.  I'll see if he's done it.

You used to be able to get another USB host card from Interpocket, but
apparently they've shut down now.  They were nice because they already
had iPaq Linux and Zaurus drivers, except they wouldn't sell outside
of the UK, which is why I went with the Ratoc:

http://www.interpocket.co.uk/

Thanks,
Vito

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