Re: Open hardware wireless cards

From: Raphael Jacquot
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 14:13:45 EST


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
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