[Arm-netbook] Wifi

[Baybal Ni]

It will incur additional costs.

On 17 December 2011 20:45, jonsmirl at gmail.com <jonsmirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has putting wifi on the board been discussed? Ralink chips are well
> under $5.00.  Putting it on the baseboard and getting it FCC/EU
> approved makes life a lot easier for people embedding the board.
>
> Another option is what Chumby did and use a USB stick. But that gets
> into a lot of problems with physical form factor. They ended up with a
> short cable to another PCB with a USB socket in order to deal with
> form factor problems. The USB stick was done to avoid the FCC
> licensing issues. They bought sticks that already had FCC/EU approval.
>
> How are you going to get wifi if the OTG socket is taken up with power input?
> I'd rather see Ethernet on a daughter card and wifi on the baseboard.
> If you are using Ethernet then you probably don't have a form factor
> problem.
>
> RaspberryPI has the same problem. They want you to plug this into a
> TV. Most people don't have hardwire Ethernet run to their TVs, they
> use wifi. Adding wifi would be a major advantage over RaspberryPI.
>
> --
> Jon Smirl
> jonsmirl at gmail.com
>
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