Monday, November 29, 2010

Prism USB chipsets

As you maybe know tosa devices contain internal wifi cards based on Prism3-USB chipset (manufactured by Ambit). Wlan-ng driver (present in staging) for such kind of devices is old, mostly-unmaintained and does not really fits current kernel WiFi stack. Non-USB versions of Prism3 devices are supported by HostAP driver, which needs adaptation (kinda big one) to work with USB devices. Working right on tosa isn't really suitable for basic driver debugging. Today I've got normal external card (Siemens SS1022) compatible with tosa one which I can use for my experiments. Happy hacking!

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Freescale licensing.



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Except for the ZigBee Beestack, Freescale grants to you, free of charge, the non-exclusive, non-transferable right, exclusively for activities which support products incorporating a Freescale 802.15.4 Radio Frequency transceiver integrated circuit ("Freescale IC") (1) to use the Software internally, (2) to reproduce the Software for purposes outlined in this Agreement, (3) to prepare derivative works of only that Software provided in source code form and (4) to distribute the Software and any derivative works thereof, other than the BeeKit Tools, in object code form and solely in conjunction with a product that contains the Freescale IC.

Damn those proprietary vendors.