From: Secure-Mail U. <seg...@se...> - 2011-09-25 21:22:39
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<html><font size="2"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hi mailbox users,<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">since a few weeks I have a mind that I can't forget. I'm traveling much around the world, sleeping in hotels that have bad wireless internet on the rooms so I need to sit in the lobby doing my work.<br><br><span style="font-family: Arial;">My mind is to have a small wifi device (optionally also with a UMTS module) that can "repeat" the wifi signal.<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span>My first look was at smartphones but I was not able to find one with a suitable WLAN chipset that support two connections at the same time (one for accesspoint mode, one for connecting to the hotel/hotspot network). My HTC Desire HD has a brcmfmac compatible chipset that doesn't support such functions (look here for driver details http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers).<br>I know that some Atheros chipsets will do the job with the madwifi or ath9k linux driver.<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;">The other solution that I thought about is to have two WLAN cards on one device, but that would not very energy efficient.<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;">So here is my plan:<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">- A gumstix chipset<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">- A baseboard where I can plug in the miniPCI / miniPCIe /</span> USB WLAN module<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">- The posibillity to plug in a UMTS module<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">- A battery with enough power<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm in software coding and system administration but not in hardware stuff so here my questions:<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">- </span>Is such a config possible with gumstix?<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">- </span>What components do I need for that?<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">- Does anyone knows a smartphone running android (so there is the ability to install an other OS to the device) that has a compatible chipset for my needs?<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br><span style="font-family: Arial;">Looking forward for a reply<span style="font-family: Arial;">.<br><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><br></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Best reguards<br><span style="font-family: Arial;">Frank Marshall</span><br></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></font> <br /><br /> ______________________________________________________<br /> powered by Secure-Mail.biz - anonymous and secure e-mail accounts.</html> |
From: Ash C. <ash...@gm...> - 2011-09-28 18:13:53
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Hey, On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Secure-Mail User <seg...@se...> wrote: > - Is such a config possible with gumstix? As a first cut at the idea, perhaps trying using a Gumstix with wifi + a USB-wifi adapter? Better yet, if you can find a USB wifi adapter that supports repeater mode, it would be possible to get software tested out. -Ash |