Re: [ECOS] WLAN and Bluetooth PCMCIA or CF card support for eCos

["David Airlie" <David dot Airlie at parthus dot com>]

the Nokia Connectivity Pack I think it is called, I have one for testing
but is in my laptop at home at the moment, it consists of a CF card in a
generic CF/PCMCIA adapter, the driver for Linux is part of Nokia's Affix
Linux Bluetooth Stack, the driver from Affix does a bit more than provide
a serial interface to the card, it provides bluetooth layers also, but I
hacked out a couple of lines to provide a standalone /dev/tty interface
for Linux and ported the Parthus Bluetooth stack (internal) to the card
for the fun of it ...

Porting it to eCos probably isn't a major undertaking ... I'd probably
look at it at some stage but only have a PID board with PCMCIA and I don't
think the card is the correct type for it ... it would be easier on an
IPAQ probably ..

Dave.

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Stefano Costa wrote:

> Interesting! What Nokia product are you writing about? And where did
> you see Linux drivers for this?
>
> On 22 Jan 2002 at 12:00, David Airlie wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm not sure what the state of the port of the Axis stack to eCos is,
> > whether it still works with latest CVS, but you should quite easily be
> > able to write a driver for the Axis stack to control the Nokia
> > Bluetooth CF/PCMCIA card, this shows up in Linux as a UART with a
> > slightly modified HCI transport, there is a driver for Linux available
> > .. of course it depends on your devel board etc..
> >
> > Dave.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Ho Shui Choy Stanley   NCS wrote:
> >
> > > I want to know whether eCos supports for the WLAN and Bluetooth
> > > PCMCIA or CF cards that is currently available in the market? What
> > > is the effort needed to write applications for these kind of
> > > communication devices in eCos? Will there be drivers available for
> > > the devices? Will I need to implement my own protocol stacks?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Stanley
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