802.11b CF Card

[RodrigoPDA]

I want to buy for my Jornada 586 an 802.11b CF card that will allow my device to get on-line from any hotspots in my town. (Houston, TX). Most hotels have it, and nearly all Starbucks.

I've seen many of them for sale, but I'm not sure if they'll do what I want.

I do not have a LAN with a wireless access point, so, if that's all those cards do, I don't want one. I want to be able to get on-line from other LANs.

Which card should I get?? Linksys and Dlink seem to have nice options, but I'm not totally sure they'll do what I want them to do.

2 more things:

(1) Price matters
(2) I want it for Xmas.

Any advice?? Thanks a bunch!!!

[RicV]

I have a Jornada 568 and I use a NetGear MA701 802.11b CF card. I do have a wireless LAN with a Linksys wireless router on my home system and access the web and email through it just fine. I also have access at work since I use a PCMCIA card in my notebook, software bridged to our wired network with windoze XP Home. I have also accessed open systems in hotels and in CompUSA. I works just fine, just a matter of getting used to the setup variations. The software with the NetGear card is excellent, I have two 802.11b PC Cards one is Linksys and one is Belkin, the software with the Netgear is the best of the three. Remember the Jornada 568 takes only type I CF cards

Ric