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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: asian1 on January 16, 2004, 09:33:30 AM

Title: Intergrated Wireless on CPU/Chipset.
Post by: asian1 on January 16, 2004, 09:33:30 AM

>Intel Centrino with Intergrated Wifi Network.

Hi
Is it possible to intergrate Wifi into PowerPC
CPU or MAI Logic/Marvel chipset?
Which one is the best option?
Is there any Amiga OS driver for Prism, Orinoco,
Atheos, Broadcom, TI ACX, Atmel or other wireless
chipset?
Thank's.

Title: Re: Intergrated Wireless on CPU/Chipset.
Post by: patrik on January 16, 2004, 09:44:06 AM

@asian1:

Yes, it is possible to integrate Wifi into pretty much any chipset design. Though it could as well be implemented using an external chip or expansion card.

At present there are no AmigaOS drivers for any wireless chipsets. Anyone out there feel urged to start writing one? ;)

(edit): You could always use wireless network on your Amiga by using an ethernet to wireless bridge.

Happy W-LANing!


/Patrik

Title: Re: Intergrated Wireless on CPU/Chipset.
Post by: asian1 on January 16, 2004, 02:19:58 PM

Hi
Thank's for the reply.
On Linux X86, it is possible to use Windows Wireless
device driver using NDIS Wrapper or Linuxant Loader.
Is it possible to use similar method with
emulation on AmigaOS or Linux PowerPC?
NDisWrapper (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper)
Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com)

Title: Re: Intergrated Wireless on CPU/Chipset.
Post by: CRL on January 16, 2004, 04:06:53 PM

Hi All-
My naive heart leaps up with this discussion.  Combine an almost available wi-fi driver with an apperently compatible PCMCIA wi-fi card (~$60.) and my A1200 is out of the closet and back on the internet.  Such nice dreams.
Yours
CRL

Title: Re: Intergrated Wireless on CPU/Chipset.
Post by: bloodline on January 16, 2004, 04:20:00 PM

Quote

CRL wrote:
Hi All-
My naive heart leaps up with this discussion.  Combine an almost available wi-fi driver with an apperently compatible PCMCIA wi-fi card (~$60.) and my A1200 is out of the closet and back on the internet.  Such nice dreams.
Yours
CRL

All Wifi cards I've seen are cardbus (32bit PCMCIA), but the Amiga 1200 has a 16bit PCMCIA... so it's a no go :-(