[Battlemesh] Chip - WiFi computer for $8

Henning Rogge hrogge at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 10:42:45 CET 2015


On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Anyone ordering them?
>
> http://getchip.com/pages/chip
>
> It has WiFi, but it is a Realtek 8723bs chipset. :-( To my knowledge you
> cannot have things like AP + ad-hoc on it, no?

There is an "out of tree" driver as far as I know:
https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

I have no clue how well this thing works.

> But I see this source code. Interesting. Is this in OpenWrt?
>
> https://github.com/NextThingCo/RTL8723BS

It has 512 MB of RAM and 4 Gig of Flash... no need to put OpenWRT on
it, a "no Desktop" Debian should be fine.

Henning Rogge



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