You should try buying the samples off taobao.com Jason
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 8:10 AM, jonsm...@gmail.com <jonsm...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
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