Neo as cellular modem?
Michael Shiloh
michael at openmoko.org
Fri May 30 02:59:28 CEST 2008
Valid idea. Thanks for mentioning this.
Michael
David Samblas Martinez wrote:
> 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)
>
>
> --- El *jue, 29/5/08, Michael Shiloh /<michael at openmoko.org>/* escribió:
>
> De: Michael Shiloh <michael at openmoko.org>
> Asunto: Re: Neo as cellular modem?
> Para: "List for Openmoko community discussion"
> <community at lists.openmoko.org>
> Fecha: jueves, 29 mayo, 2008 6:00
>
> 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
>
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