| Yes, if the missing pin isn't the middle index then it will need to be repaired; I fixed a couple like that by cutting the black plastic base out with a razor, desolder the pin base, remove a pin from a good header, solder it on using a IDE cable header to align it and hot glue the base of the pin to help secure it (others have used slight dab of epoxy too).
On the Badflash cable, use the middle two rows, make sure that the the red line on the cable matches pin 1 which towards the top.
I am not sure about the CF wireless card, the ones I looked at didn't have drivers for Win98, ME or Win 2000/Xp, If you want wireless, I would recommend the LinkSys WMP11 which is a PCI card with a Mini-pci card piggybacked on it (under the RF shield) You will need take the mini-pci card off the regular PCI card adpater and make yourself an antenna for it, but that's half the fun of hacking. Stay away from the Dell (Orinico-Lucent) truemobile wireless mini-pci cards, I worked on that for a month and couldn't get hardly anywere. The card would kinda work at the peak of my limited success but never really good as the device was id'ed as a PCMCI controller with a wireless card inserted; apparently there are some shortfalls in GCT's bios for support of PCMCIA. The Linksys card worked GREAT with my Ornico RG1100 (with encrytion turned off, I never got brave enought ot try encryption with it) and all the drivers from the Linksys site worked for both Windos 98 & XP (Unlike Dell which wouldn't understand support if their life depended on it!). | |
