The Safecom SWLSDI-1100 802.11b Wireless LAN Card is one of the few cards you can actually buy for reasonable money. Others I have looked at exceed £50 and lets be honest are not worth the money. I spent quite a while searching for a card before I came upon this particular one. Expansys had the socket card but at nearly £60 it was above my budget. The Safecom card was found on ebay, in new shrink wrapped condition for reasonable £28 with free postage. I opted for special delivery which cost me an extra £4 or so. The nice thing was that I ordered it on the Friday at around 2pm and had it the next day by 8:30am! What service. My initial attempt at installing this card and subsequent attempts were equally unsuccessful. I spent 29 hours in total trying to get the card working with my Toshiba E400 but all I could achieve was locking up the Pocket PC. I finally begged a set of drivers from someone on the Internet and my luck changed. I installed the new drivers and found it to work fine once I fiddled with the settings on Windows Mobile 2003 SE. However further attempts to install the drivers caused some problems. So I have merged both the driver and utility and the installation program from various driver sources into one installation package that seems to work fine for me.
Link Safecom SWLSDI-1100 802.11b Wireless LAN Card Driver and Utility.
You can access .PDF copies of the Installation Guide and some other information HERE!
Hope this information helps.
Additional Notes
The LED indicating data flow on the SDIO card is not always a blue LED so don't worry, mine is a green/yellow LED. A quick note about Safecom I tried 3 times to get help from Safecom support. They did not even bother to contact me! Eventually when I had solved the problem and posted the solution to their forum, they emailed me and asked me to supply them with the driver I had got working. They suggested that they would perhaps drop the driver onto their site for other E400 users to benefit from, well that was about 3 weeks ago and they still have not bothered. So this is probably the only place to get a decent working driver that is compatible with the E400. I would suggest to Safecom that relying on a forum and other people to sort out their problems is not perhaps the best customer support system ever invented.
OMG~! Thank you. I've been looking for something like this for years. Toshiba used a proprietary sdio slot for their e400 which i think they changed with an updated e405. Can you confirm that your model is indeed e400 before i drop $50 on this card? Toshiba seems to lump the two together on their support site but one is crippled and the other is fine.
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Really great info! Finally some solid data about the E405 & SDIO WiFi. I went on and bought this SD card on ebay. However, I couldn't make it work (card blinking only after sw reset, utility launches for a sec. and dies). You mention fiddling w. Windows 2003SE. Could you please detail? My E405 is totally reset w. new firmware update.
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BahaZero
ReplyDeleteYes my model is indeed a Toshiba E400. It took quite a bit of work to get it going and in the end Safecom were unable to do the work themselves and posted my driver set on their support site, don't know if it is still there but the link above should point you in the right direction.
Anonymous
ReplyDeleteSorry to here your troubles, The link above will get you the driver set that I put together which works with my E400, I am afraid I don't have an E405? I am assuming that was the same unit from a different country.
It's been a while since I did this however if you do everything in the correct order then it works fine. Please feel free to re-post specific questions and I will do my best to help.
link no longer works :(
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Links now fixed again, hope the driver works for you. I am sorry I can not be of much more help, but I no longer use this device and have moved to the Android platform.
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Yogiman!