<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' background='none' style='font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);width:100%;'><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'>If anyone is really interested in make this phone an AP to whatever use and if a external power is an option, why not use a USB 1.1 wireless adapter able to do that even it only do it in b instead of g if the usb 1.1 doen't allow the 54 Mb/s.it can be very probable that can even use monitor mode with that dongle ;) even without external power it can be doable for a shorts periods of time (well battery will decide the timeframe)<br><br><br>--- El <b>jue, 29/5/08, Michael Shiloh <i><michael@openmoko.org></i></b> escribió:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">De: Michael Shiloh <michael@openmoko.org><br>Asunto: Re: Neo as
cellular modem?<br>Para: "List for Openmoko community discussion" <community@lists.openmoko.org><br>Fecha: jueves, 29 mayo, 2008 6:00<br><br><pre>Alexey Feldgendler wrote:<br>> On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:59:10 +0200, Andy Green <andy@openmoko.com><br>wrote:<br>> <br>>> We're helpless unless Atheros decided to implement Master mode in<br>their<br>>> closed firmware. Unfortunately the power advantages of having the<br>bulk<br>>> of the ieee80211 actions managed in the firmware are pretty compelling<br>>> so I don't know how we get out of that bind.<br>> <br>> The very knowledge that we can't do something that the hardware would <br>> technically be capable of is annoying, <br><br>Strongly agree. In some cases this was a result of the agreement we were <br>able to reach with the chip manufacturer in order to open source the <br>driver. We don't view this as a perfect solution, but rather a good <br>start.
Hopefully in the future the success of Openmoko will encourage <br>chip manufacturers to become more open.<br><br><br>> but I don't really see why we would need to implement a true AP in the<br>phone. <br><br>Strongly disagree. Innovation is stifled whenever choices are limited <br>simply because we can't think of why someone would want to make that <br>choice. We should always strive to make such choices available.<br><br><br><br><br>For any reasonable use<br>> case I can think of, ad-hoc mode should be enough. The only usability <br>> advantage of being an AP would be that it can send beacon packets that <br>> allow other devices to detect an available network, but sending beacon <br>> would be a battery drain anyway.<br><br>Assuming the use case made sense, the Freerunner could be powered <br>externally.<br><br>Michael<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Openmoko community mailing
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