Hardware compatibility

[williamsdb]

Been using my NBP for the last coupe of months and the following is hardware I have found to work:

- Original netbook/s7 docking station but not the original serial cable
- CF storage card via adaptor in PCMCIA slot
- Pretek CF 56K Modem
- Dell 802.11b CF wireless Card
- USB Mouse
- Colorgraphic Voyager PCMCIA VGA Card
- Fuji Finepix digital camera

Something that I haven't been able to get working is any usb storage key. Anyone had any success with this??

Also has anyone found a usb bluetooth dongle with ce .net drivers?

Thanks

Neil

[harveyr]

Neil

There is a compatibility matrix of tested peripherals on the NBP site: http://www.psionteklogix.com/assets/downloadable/NETBOOK_PRO_Compatability.pdf

Re USB storage - the current version of the OS does not support USB storage - this functionality will be delivered in the next release of the software due in March.

Best regards

Harvey

[MABell]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this...

I just got my Symbol WiFi CF (original w/ PCMCIA jacket) working by using the Socket CF driver for PPC2003.

Mike

[wader]

USB Storage Key - I found that a Lexar JumpDrive (128MB) can be accessed by the NetBook Pro, however the NBP will only recognize files that it has stored on the key. So, files can be transferred from the NBP to some other device, but not vice versa.

USB Light - the Kensington Flylight flexible light connects and works from the NBP USB port. Of course, it will draw down the battery some, but only 30 milliAmp, so it makes a good keyboard light for late night work.

HELP - Colorgraphic Voyager PCMCIA VGA Card - I have the card and use it with my original netBook, but it won't work on my new NetBook Pro. The Colorgraphic Company said they don't have a driver for the NBP with this card. Does anyone know where I can find the DRIVER???

Thanks.

Wade

[williamsdb]

Wade,

I have been able to get the Colorgrapic card to work with my NBP. You need to download the correct driver though which you can get from the following link:

http://www.colorgraphic.net/newsite/products/voyager_pcmcia_downloads.asp

Download the HPC driver and it works a treat!

Neil

[wader]

Neil,

I guess I'm a little slow today, but I don't get it.

I downloaded the HPC driver (H/PC or PocketPC 2000 Drivers), and ran the exe file from my desktop PC. It didn't appear to do anything for my NBP (attached with ActiveSync).

Thinking I misunderstood, I looked at the (MIPS H/PC 2000 Driver), but says it's for the Intermec 6651.

I checked out the WinCE 2.x drivers, but WinCE 2.x just seemed wrong for a WinCE 4.2 machine.

Please give me some more details about getting the driver into my NBP.

Thanks again.

Wade

[vitualis]

Look for either HPC 2000 (aka Windows CE 3.0) ARM drivers (not MIPS or SH3/4) or HPC Pro (aka Windows CE 2.11) ARM drivers.

Best regards.

[stolk]

Originally posted by williamsdb
Wade,

I have been able to get the Colorgrapic card to work with my NBP. You need to download the correct driver though which you can get from the following link:

http://www.colorgraphic.net/newsite/products/voyager_pcmcia_downloads.asp

Download the HPC driver and it works a treat!

Neil

Dear Neil,

I did download the HPC driver and installed it on the NBP but get an image on the beamer or monitor that it is distorted in a very regular manner, tried to change the 640x400 to the 800x600 size etc etc but the distortion is the same. The beamer reports it receives an analog SVGA signal.

What is going wrong here? Does anybody has a clue?

leo

[dave99]

Just updating hoping for an update of this thread, as I'm interested to see if the following work on the NB Pro:

Will a Psion "gold card WAN Global PC Card" work?
Can I use a 3G card (ie Orange's latest edition)

Thanks

DAve