[Community] When will the Neo900 be ready for orders?

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 23.11.2014 um 17:05 schrieb Ryan de Laplante (personal) <ryan at ryandelaplante.ca>:

> 
>>> I understand that you don't know exactly when, but maybe you can guess
>>> roughly which quarter of 2015 it will be ready for order and delivery. Q1?
>>> Q2?
>> 
>> It's just a rough guess, but I'd say Q2.
> 
> Ok, thank you. I'm really looking forward to buying one ASAP.
> 
> 
>>> Also, the ReplicantOS project purposely does not provide proprietary wifi
>>> and modem drivers.  Maybe the Neo900 project can provide instructions for
>>> those of us who want to use ReplicantOS with network capability.
>> 
>> There's no need for proprietary drivers on Neo900 for either WiFi or
>> modem. The only thing you need is a firmware blob for WiFi chipset
>> (which is *not* executed on CPU), so the only thing you need to use it
>> with Replicant is to put it into proper directory so the kernel can
>> find it and upload to the chipset.
>> 
>> Also, Goldelico Replicant images for GTA04 already include the WiFi
>> firmware and in future should work with Neo900 as well.
> 
> Great! Do you know which other features will not work on ReplicantOS +
> Neo900 without a proprietary firmware blob or driver?  The information
> on this page related to the GTA04 worries me:
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus#Replicant-42
> 
> Maybe they could add a new row for Neo900 if the chips and status
> information are different than the GTA04.

The Replicant project has not enough capacity to work for the GTA04. So
there is a separate “Replicant for GTA04”-Project where more things work
than in official Replicant (but it is planned to integrate it):

http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-replicant/issues/

BR,
Nikolaus