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Re: Carte Blanche Bluetooth?
Steve wrote:
These are very cool. I bought a lot of these cards and pulled them
apart to find an SD card with an Atheros XL6001 Chipset, as these
cards (accordingly) are the only SD cards with information available
about their SPI interface as well as having a free open source Linux
driver. All other wifi SD cards have no information at all about how
to use their chip set. They also come with these locked pre-compiled
binary drivers for specific platforms. Horrible.
So if anyone does actually manage to get WiFI running on SD, ill be
mighty amazed.
My first attempts at a webserver was made a lot easier with the Olimex
modules. Although bulky, their interfaces are fully documented and
there's lots of code available.
http://www.applelogic.org/AL/CBEN1.JPG
I agree that protocol complexity is a real issue.
The ZeroG WiFi module coupled with a PIC running a TCP/IP stack makes
a pretty self-contained WiFi connectivity block, and all that would
be needed from there is a file system interface. (Unless real
networking over WiFi is desired--then there's a lot of Apple II
code needed, too.)
Of course, all of these approaches are functionally identical to
connecting an Apple II with a fast link to a modern machine that
actually supports the networking--for those who like that kind of
thing...
SD cards with built-in WiFi are also available.
-michael
NadaNet and AppleCrate II: parallel computing for Apple II computers!
Home page: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon
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