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From: RichSCS@...
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> I unpacked a win98 Progear which I have had sitting around in a box for
> a couple of years. I got it to work OK although it seems the built-in
> Orinoco wireless card has a limited reach. I could hook into my own
> access point and the public library but not the local Starbucks. I have
> a USB wireless stick however that is where I run into problems as I
> would need to plug in more than one USB device, if I want to use the
> keyboard. When I plug in a hub to the USB port, it does not light up
> like it does on my desktop PC. I tried plugging in an optical mouse,
> same thing -- lights up on the PC but not on the Progear. I have a USB
> keyboard and a Lexar memory stick which both work fine with the USB
> board. It seems that the USB port does not have sufficient power to
> drive the mouse or the hub. The hub has an external power supply which
> I haven't tried yet, but it sort of defeats the purpose. Any
> suggestions or comments?
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> I don't even know if any Progear-people are left out there. Yesterday
> though soimebody reported one for sale, prior to that it was mostly
> Spam now and then.

Some of us are still here. :) My Orinoco card doesn't seem to have that
problem. Did you try another card? I don't think its USB port has enough
power to supply energy too much since it probably was designed to run off
battery. I've never tried a mouse on it. One of my future projects is to put
in a larger hard drive and put a new OS in it and fix that darn stylus holder
(the stylus keeps falling out).

Bob