[Arm-netbook] CHIP - The World's First Nine Dollar Computer by Next Thing Co. — Kickstarter

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello,

On Tue, 12 May 2015 18:38:38 +0000 (UTC)
Derek LaHousse <dlahouss at mtu.edu> wrote:

> Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross <maillist_arm-netbook <at> aross.me>
> writes:
> 
> > really good marketing and a well made original video. however they
> > dont give much info like what wifi chipset they use -weather its
> > software freedom friendly-.
> 
> From their kickstarter page, it's:
> - A realtek 2-in-1 Bluetooth 4.0 + WiFi b/g/n
> 
> Based on that, it's probably an rtl81xx.  Yes, that's a big family
> and I don't know any better.  But they all require non-free
> firmware.  Bleh.

Did you expect anything else?

> 
> The page claims the wifi supports AP mode.  Neat.

*Any* wifi chip supports AP mode. Or put in another way, a vendor needs
to go out of their way to block it (some do, yeah).


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 Paul                          mailto:pmiscml at gmail.com