Neo as cellular modem?

[Joerg Reisenweber]

Am Do  29. Mai 2008 schrieb Michael Shiloh:
> 
> Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:10 +0200, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in their
> >> closed firmware.  Unfortunately the power advantages of having the bulk
> >> of the ieee80211 actions managed in the firmware are pretty compelling
> >> so I don't know how we get out of that bind.
> > 
> > The very knowledge that we can't do something that the hardware would 
> > technically be capable of is annoying, 
> 
> Strongly agree. In some cases this was a result of the agreement we were 
> able to reach with the chip manufacturer in order to open source the 
> driver. We don't view this as a perfect solution, but rather a good 
> start. Hopefully in the future the success of Openmoko will encourage 
> chip manufacturers to become more open.
> 
> 
> > but I don't really see why we would need to implement a true AP in the 
phone. 
> 
> Strongly disagree. Innovation is stifled whenever choices are limited 
> simply because we can't think of why someone would want to make that 
> choice. We should always strive to make such choices available.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> For any reasonable use
> > case I can think of, ad-hoc mode should be enough. The only usability 
> > advantage of being an AP would be that it can send beacon packets that 
> > allow other devices to detect an available network, but sending beacon 
> > would be a battery drain anyway.
> 
> Assuming the use case made sense, the Freerunner could be powered 
> externally.
> 
> Michael

Not if you don't find a "3 word slogan" to sell this feature to your granny.
SCNR, still got a "no Joerg!" trauma ;-)

/j
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