Re: Open hardware wireless cards

Raphael Jacquot
2005-01-06T19:10:55Z

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>>What is also possible, is just to design an open chipset like the
openrisc
>>guys did: They designed and published the design of a risc processor
under I
>>believe GPL (have to look it up).
>>If you let companies use that design to produce their open card, you
will have
>>solved the problem. Companies like Trust (Dutch white label company:
Buy a
>>stack of stuff, and put Trust label on it), will probably pick this up
>
>
> Cool we should get an estimate to see how many cards they'd need in
> order to start a bulk order.

as far as I/O is concerned, the card MUST have an easy to procure
coaxial connector so that an external antenna can be attached