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

Hello,

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

Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross <maillist_arm-netbook <at> aross.me> writes:

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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).