From: Norbert van Nobelen <Norbert@edusupport.nl>
Organization: EduSupport
To: Raphael Jacquot <raphael.jacquot@imag.fr>
Subject: Re: Open hardware wireless cards
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:32:13 +0100
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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
>
> 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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