Talk:WiFi support in OpenMoko
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As far as I know, one of the best products when it comes to powerconsumption vs. signal strength. | As far as I know, one of the best products when it comes to powerconsumption vs. signal strength. | ||
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| + | And if you have requirements, just say what they are! How many milliamperes standby/inactive/RX/TX is the maximum? | ||
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| + | How many square millimeters or whatever shape is the maximum? | ||
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| + | "Too Big" and "Too Much" aren't engineering units. | ||
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| + | The smallest units I could find were the Symbol LA-5127 which are Compact Flash cards, and the earlier (802.11b only) version was several times better than any other CF WiFi card and it has GPL drivers (with snort extensions). But it still takes 500mA for transmitting, but maybe they can limit the Tx power (100 milliwatts of RF would mean V*mA would be 100 at perfect efficiency). | ||
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| + | Are there any closed-source chips that you can use? Socket I think has an SD card format WiFi, but I don't know the power or size for that either. | ||
Revision as of 19:00, 14 March 2007
what about CSR's Unifi? It is specially made to co-exist with the bluetooth chip you are already using. http://www.csr.com/products/unifirange.htm
As far as I know, one of the best products when it comes to powerconsumption vs. signal strength.
And if you have requirements, just say what they are! How many milliamperes standby/inactive/RX/TX is the maximum?
How many square millimeters or whatever shape is the maximum?
"Too Big" and "Too Much" aren't engineering units.
The smallest units I could find were the Symbol LA-5127 which are Compact Flash cards, and the earlier (802.11b only) version was several times better than any other CF WiFi card and it has GPL drivers (with snort extensions). But it still takes 500mA for transmitting, but maybe they can limit the Tx power (100 milliwatts of RF would mean V*mA would be 100 at perfect efficiency).
Are there any closed-source chips that you can use? Socket I think has an SD card format WiFi, but I don't know the power or size for that either.
