Questions and Answers

[Sean Moss-Pultz]

On 1/4/09 Minh Ha Duong wrote:
> 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 ?

Too big :/
OLPC uses the 8388 chipset. We needed to use the 8686 or the newer 
(bluetooth+wifi) 8688 variant. Those are built for mobile phones.

   -Sean