Questions and Answers

Minh Ha Duong haduong at centre-cired.fr
Sun Jan 4 10:11:26 CET 2009


Le dimanche 04 janvier 2009, Sean Moss-Pultz a écrit :
> Now we're again struggling with closed firmwares (both the Calypso and
> the Atheros module). I would love to just make our own WiFi chip, but
> Openmoko doesn't have the volume to return our investment in such a
> technology endeavor.

Hello Sean,

  I always wondered why you were not reusing XO's wifi chip subsystem (Marvell 
88W8388) ? OLPC has already mesh networking and I guess good integration in 
the kernel. Too expensive, proprietary, complicated ?

Minh
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