[Thinkpad] PCMCIA WLAN (WAS Re: OT: Which PDA should Iconsider?])

[Michael Geary]

> From: Aryeh Goretsky
> 
> My employer has been equipping some of the sales force (who 
> use mostly T43s and T60s, with a few X41s and X60s for 
> frequent travellers) with Verizon Broadband Access cards, 
> which are CardBus adapters and run over their EVDO network, I believe.
> 
> One thing about the adapters is they appear to require quite 
> a bit of software which must be installed on the host PC to 
> manage connection; it is not like installing an Ethernet (or 
> Wi-Fi) NIC and loading a few KB of drivers.  The impression I 
> received from our IT department was that it could be 
> problematic sometimes if one needed to use multiple VPNs, run 
> agents (backup, inventory, security, etc.) over the WWAN 
> connection, and so forth.

You may not need all that extra Verizon software. My T60p came with
Verizon's VZAccess Manager, which I found both unreliable and annoying. But
I discovered that I didn't need to use this software at all: ThinkVantage
Access Connections handles the Verizon card just fine, and integrates it in
with the other connections I set up (various WiFi routers), so I can switch
between them seamlessly.

-Mike