Re: Open hardware wireless cards

Norbert van Nobelen
2005-01-06T19:34:52Z

100mWatt antenna (-: Gives 4 mile range (-:
Make it USB powered (-: (so that the pcmcia card does not overheat!!)

On Thursday 06 January 2005 20:11, you wrote:
> Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >>What is also possible, is just to design an open chipset like the
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> openrisc
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> >>guys did: They designed and published the design of a risc processor
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> under I
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> >>believe GPL (have to look it up).
> >>If you let companies use that design to produce their open card, you
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> will have
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> >>solved the problem. Companies like Trust (Dutch white label company:
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> Buy a
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> >>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.
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> 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