informantion NANONOTE

Oscar Javier Riverac Claro raiver88 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 18:11:54 EST 2010


Hi. Well, I want to buy one Nanonote, but I want to get the micrSD Wi-Fi
card. Can you contact with someone who has this card? Well, If that person
wants to give me like a present, I'm going to receive. But, If that person
wants to sell me, well, I'll pay for this one.

Thanks.(Excuse my English)

2010/2/2 Wolfgang Spraul <wolfgang at sharism.cc>

> Hi Oscar!
>
> > I want to know if the nanonote has wifi? A friend told me that I can
> > obtain wi-fi using a auxiliar SD card,
>
> The NanoNote does not have Wi-Fi.
> There is one micrSD Wi-Fi card in the world, afaik the only one:
> Spectec SDW-823
> After a few months of being unavailable, it seems available again:
> http://www.expansys-usa.com/d.aspx?i=140798
>
> However, it's crazy expensive! 82.12 USD at Expansys USA, plus shipping.
> (that's because this card is only manufactured in very low volumes, and
> Spected needs to try to recoup their engineering expenses over those low
> volumes, maybe only 1000-2000 cards)
>
> Several months ago we bought 10-15 of these cards to support some Wi-Fi
> hackers. I don't know exactly where the cards are right now (I have 1 left
> for myself), but if you want to do some serious Wi-Fi hacking maybe we can
> find a card somewhere.
>
> The people that got the cards have since gotten the GPL driver to work,
> I believe in the latest official image 20100113 not everything is working
> out of the box, however.
> The next steps are:
>
> 1. continue to get our official images to support these cards out of the
> box
> 2. REALLY UNDERSTAND how well the card perform: power consumption, antenna
> performance, driver features.
> 3. if we feel comfortable that this is actually working well, I could
> imagine
> that we buy a larger amount from Spectec and offer in our shop. Maybe the
> price could be brought down to 49 USD or so, maybe even a bit less but
> depends on volume.
>
> However, we will only promote and sell these cards if they work really
> well.
> So for now the simple bottom line is: No Wi-Fi in the NanoNote.
>
> > An I want to know how much slots for SD card does the nanonote have? I
> mean
> > if you use one for Wifi, are there other for a memory SD  card?
>
> No there is only 1 microSD slot, and I believe unless we change the CPU,
> we cannot easily add another one (the CPU has only 1 SDIO port).
> So if you have the Wi-Fi card inserted, you cannot have another microSD
> card.
>
> Hope this is not too disappointing :-) Wi-Fi hacking definitely continues,
> if we have good news to report we'll do it!
> Wolfgang
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 10:04:21AM -0500, Oscar Javier Riverac Claro wrote:
> > Hello. I have a couple of questions. I want to know if the nanonote has
> > wifi? A friend told me that I can obtain wi-fi using a auxiliar SD card,
> > that is true?
> >
> > An I want to know how much slots for SD card does the nanonote have? I
> mean
> > if you use one for Wifi, are there other for a memory SD  card?
> >
> > Thanks.
>
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