On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Ben West <b...@gowasabi.net> wrote: > The SD form-factor 802.11 card we were trying to integrate was based on > ath5k, IIFC, which would support AP mode. I believe we got far enough to > test in STA mode (i.e.. test the wifi link to a conventional base station). > Although, SD format factor for peripherals is not ideal, and possibly > obsolete by now. > > The thread author would need to check whether the ralink driver supports AP > mode (which doesn't look hopeful from Googling).
We hadn't tried AP mode. The device only has wifi and 802.15.4. The wifi is in STA mode. There's no place for AP to send traffic. If we had access to router SOC chips we'd add an Ethernet port and support AP mode. We have built several gateways using off-the-shelf routers and then adding a 802.15.4 USB stick. But we can't add the display and other peripherals to an off-the-shelf router. I would need to investigate Ralink and AP mode. The Ralink devices are softmac so almost everything is implement in the Linux wifi core. The Linux core definitely supports AP mode so the question is if it can get to enough features of the Ralink device to enable AP mode. We're going to investigate 11s after we get the basic device working. > > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Mark Deneen <mden...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> AP mode? >> >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Ben West <b...@gowasabi.net> wrote: >> > Many moons ago I was working with a startup developing a small >> > battery-powered device based around TI's DaVinci DM355 SoC. >> > http://www.ti.com/product/tms320dm355 >> > >> > We tried to use the MMC/SDIO interface to talk to an SD form-factor >> > 802.11 >> > card (since the USB was already assigned elsewhere), but I could see >> > that >> > USB working well for a cheap Ra-Link card instead. >> > >> > As to your question about pricing reference, the DM355 runs roughly >> > US$20/ea >> > from AVNet, for example. >> > >> > http://avnetexpress.avnet.com/store/em/EMController/Processor/Multimedia-Misc/_/N-100230/Ne-100000?action=products&advAction=&cat=1&catalogId=500201&cutTape=&inStock=&langId=-1&myCatalog=&npi=&proto=®ionalStock=&rohs=&searchType=&storeId=500201&term=dm355&topSellers= >> > >> > We were able to get a tray of sample DM355's from AVnet, and it looks >> > like >> > they sell some of the pkg variants in qty 1. >> > >> > > -- > Ben West > http://gowasabi.net > b...@gowasabi.net > > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > -- Jon Smirl jonsm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
