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robbrown robbrown
 
M$25 February 04, 2009 09:42 PM

How can I use an EyeFi card to transmit photos in real time, directly to my laptop?

I can't use a separate access point or router. I also don't have AC power. I don't have WiFi internet access.

I do have a laptop and an EyeFi card in my digital camera.

In as close to real-time as possible, how can I use the EyeFi card to transmit photos to my laptop for review and storage?
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slancher slancher
 
February 04, 2009 10:22 PM
Set up an encripted ad hock wireless network on your laptop. An ad hock network allows other wireless devices to connect to your laptop without going through a wireless router. Share your images folder from your laptop with write access for users who connect to your network. From there just set your EyeFi card to connect to your laptop and upload to your shared folder. Make sure you are careful not to share your pictures folder for public networks your laptop may connect to. You don't want just anybody to be able to read and write to your pics folder.

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robbrown robbrown
 
February 04, 2009 10:34 PM
I've given this a try without success.

From EyeFi's FAQ:

"The Eye-Fi card requires the use of a wireless router or access point to upload photos to a computer. At this time the Eye-Fi card does not support ad-hoc (computer-to-computer) wireless networks."

I'm hoping for a hack or an alternate way to make this work.

Thanks for your reply Slancher!

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ziv ziv
 
February 07, 2009 01:56 AM
Today, the Eye-Fi Cards only support Infrastructure mode networking, which requires a router. If you want to shoot on-location, straight into your laptop, you can configure a router ahead of time, while you're online, then take everything offline, go the location, bring up the router, get the Mac/PC connected to the router (via wi-fi or via a cat-5), and start shooting.

If you want to hear about our future plans, sign up for our mailing list (from the site), and we'll let you know when more features/functions are introduced.

Thx.

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snoman snoman
 
February 04, 2009 11:13 PM
The card requires DHCP, which it cannot resolve over ad-hoc. The laptops' onboard wifi might be able to do this, depending on the wifi chipset it has. A much simpler option is to obtain a wifi card with access point capability to plug into your pcmcia slot. A very popular one is the Asus WL-107g. It can be found for under $30. Manufacturer and shopping search results are linked below. If you are using windows, you can attempt to configure a new wireless connection to see if you have the option to act as an access point and DHCP server. In WinXP, go to control panel/network setup wizard. In Vista or Win7 go to start, select network, then select network and sharing center. Choose "set up a new connection or network" from the list in the main view pane. If you are fortunate enough to be able to do it this way, it may require undoing before you use your laptop wifi normally. Networking doesn't always follow the rules. I would not try to set the laptop as a DHCP serving access point. Good luck.
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http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=52&l1=12&l2...

http://www.google.com/products?q=asus+WL-107g&btnG=Search+Products&...


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robbrown robbrown
 
February 04, 2009 11:26 PM
Have you tried this? Does it work?

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snoman snoman
 
February 04, 2009 11:46 PM
Robbrown, I use that Asus card to connect several wifi enabled devices to a laptop, including a playstation 3, a sony camera (DSC-G3 Cyber-shot), and security cameras. I have not used the Eyefi card. I learned that this is the way to do it from Scott Bourne and/or Alex Lindsay on their show , "This Week in Photography", or when these two were talking with Leo Laporte on "This Week in Tech". I cannot remember which show, as I flood myself with these types of podcasts and the professionals in this genre "cross-pollinate", if you will, each others' shows.

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robbrown robbrown
 
February 05, 2009 04:31 PM
Shoot.... This solution works for XP, 98, even RH Linux. It won't work with a Mac or Vista. I use Vista but am considering a move to Apple.

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=12&l2;=42&l3;=135&model;=52&modelmenu;=1

Is there a PCMCIA / Cardbus card with a software AP that will work under Windows Vista?

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snoman snoman
 
February 06, 2009 01:23 AM
That Asus card does indeed work on and have support for Vista. The product documentation we are viewing is just not updated. My laptop has Vista on it. Here is a link to the Asus download page for that card, with the Vista 32 and 64 bit drivers for it.
http://support.asus.com/download/download_item.aspx?model=WL-107g&type;=Drivers&SLanguage;=en-us

And thanks for the tip robbrown.

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