Re: wireless comms/networking
From: Anders F (af-spam_at_hi5.dk)
Date: 08/19/04
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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:43:31 +0200
"Richard" <rh86@no.spam> wrote in message news:41242EE8.67F29DCC@no.spam...
> Jeffrey Dutky wrote:
> > I'm an amatuer electronics hacker (a couple of
> > college courses and a bunch of reading) and I'm
> > interested in fooling around with wireless
> > networking stuff.
>
> Depending on what you're wanting to get out of the experience...
>
> Getting a seemingly "simple" PC Card WiFi integrated with a device
> (microcontroller)i
That's the way I considered too (alternatively CF or SD cards). The
electrical interface is quite easy - but finding out how the cards actually
communicate, let alone building actual stacks and protcols: HMM!
I'm still interested if anynone's got information!
> is a dubious task unto itself, let alone starting with
> RF chips. (See http://www.iosoft.co.uk/ for an early authoritative
> source on doing this).
Been there - but I cant find much info... They obviously just want to sell
their (pretty nice) boards ;-)
> Building your own with WiFi RF chips is probably
> well outside the realm of hobbyists.
Definitely!
> If you're just looking to WiFi-enable widgets, check out the WiFi
> versions of Digi's and Lantronix's very slick Ethernet-in-a-jack
> products:
>
> http://www.digi.com/products/embeddeddeviceservers/index.jsp
That's the way I'm going. Just whish they'd keep the height a down ;-)
/Anders
> http://www.lantronix.com/products/eds/wiport/index.html
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