| Value |  5 | | Performance | 5 | | Ease of Use |  3 | | Overall Satisfaction |  4 |
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4 of 5 Product is excellent, Manual is awful Thursday, February 14, 2008
A Customer from Sanford, NC
The "manual" is actually just a one-page flyer, in very poor and confusing English.<BR>
It should say something like this (but does not):
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<LI>"You MUST plug in the DC power end of the supplied DC-to-USB cable into the plug located between the USB ports on the USB CardBus Adapter.</LI>
<LI>You MUST plug the USB end of the supplied DC-to-USB cable into a PRE-EXISTING ON-BOARD USB port.</LI>
<LI>IF you do not have a PRE-EXISTING ON-BOARD USB port, obtain a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, place it on the USB end of the cable, and plug it into an EXISTING ON-BOARD PS/2 (mouse or keyboard) port."</LI>
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To summarize: the USB Cardbus Adapter must be powered by plugging it into the cardbus slot AND by a cable plugged between its front and a separate USB or PS/2 port.<BR><BR>
Once I figured that out (using a USB-to-PS/2 adapter, as the old laptop I am using it in does not have any existing USB ports), the card works like a champ. The card must have the additional power supplied for most USB devices to work, even those devices with an external power supply.<BR><BR>
A photograph or drawing of the card with the DC cable plugged in would have made the instructions so much clearer.<BR><BR>
The supplied drivers work fine, and I am very pleased with the actual product.
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