informantion NANONOTE

Carlos Camargo cicamargoba at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 18:37:03 EST 2010


Hi

Right now Qi have some SD cards, but just for developers, Ypu must first
understand the whole process: Loader, Linux Loader, Linuex kernel, File
system.


Carlos

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Oscar Javier Riverac Claro <
raiver88 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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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Carlos Iván Camargo Bareño
Profesor Asistente
Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
cicamargoba at unal.edu.co
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