[Gta04-owner] Some questions about the GTA04A4

[xdrudis]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 12:13:21PM +0000, Bob Ham wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-02-12 at 10:33 +0100, xdrudis wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 09:21:25PM +0100, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote:
> > > > The WiFi/BT chip needs a binary firmware, 
> > 
> > I knew
> > 
> > > > but there is a project which
> > > > aims to replace it: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Thinfirm_1.5
> > 
> > I didn't know. I thought efforts had stalled years ago .
> 
> Unfortunately it has stalled; the last commit to the git repository
> pointed to on that page, was 17 months ago.
>

Well, I thought it was longer ago, and more importantly I thought 
it was left without results. But the table in that page says everything
is done. It gave me the impression that it was completed, not abandoned

According to http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_Report 
the firmware works on XO-1.5 in infraestructure and AP mode (and could work in mesh
if somethingin mac80211 is fixed). 

So I thought if it didn't work on GTA04 was because the hardware or
software is somewhat different and could maybe be fixed.

In fact apparently it was done by http://cozybit.com (in California),
which might give some hope that they may accept work on adapting it to
gta04. It may cost some money, though. A board to begin with...