WiFi testing status

Carlos Camargo cicamargoba at gmail.com
Sun Feb 28 08:01:58 EST 2010


The wifi card can work with SD interfaces with only 1 Data bit?
NANONOTE uses 4 bits



Carlos

On 2/28/10, Javi Roman <javiroman at kernel-labs.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars at metafoo.de> wrote:
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>> Ron K. Jeffries wrote:
>>> This list has been very quiet regarding status
>>> of the microSD WiFi device that is being tested
>>> with Ben Nanonote.
>>>
>>> I remember an email that was sent using the WiFi,
>>> I asked what the distance was, (pretty good actually).
>>>
>>> How many developers have the WiFi card, and what are
>>> the next steps if any?
>>>
>>> The ability to add WiFi to Nanonote would obviously
>>> yield very happy results in terms of sales.
>>>
>>> Is this the elephant in the room we are all ignoring? ;)
>>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Well, we do have the driver source which was dumped by Renesas
>> KeyStream. It works quite well, as in you can use it to go online.
>> Actually, once when my laptops wifi card couldn't - for whatever
>> reason - see the hotspot i wanted to connect to, I routed the traffic
>> through my nanonote :)
>> But the driver has some issues which could/should be fixed. Javi
>> showed interest in past in doing so, but hasn't happened much since
>> then. One problem that still exits is lack of documentation so if the
>> card behaves unexpected we can't be sure what to do to behave
>> properly. Everything is just guesswork based on the existing code.
>>
>> - - Lars
>
> I've just updated the wiki Wi-Fi page
> http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Wi-Fi_in_Nanonote with a little bit
> more information.
>
> I'm going to focus in this field again, I've got interest already, any
> help is wellcome :-),
>
> --
> Javi Roman
>
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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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