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That’s an inelegant solution.

It’s a solution that is simple and works. ;-)

I know about wireless bridges but they’re not as stable.

Oh?

Bridges are bodges.

Parts of me think that a huge amount of WiFi’s general behaviour is a bodge. I mean, shall we talk about WEP? WPS? The fact that a repeater seemingy can’t use a different channel (for instance: receive from the AP on channel 6, talk to its own clients on channel 3) so its communications crash into the AP’s communications and everything just seems to get all the more congested?

But, then, the internet is basically a huge pile of interacting bodges that somehow manage to provide us with an endless source of kitten videos.

Besides that thing is huge.

It’s bigger than a tiny USB widget, certainly. But it’s a full computer (MIPS based) with RAM, Flash, etc. In that respect it’s smaller than a traditional Pi. ;-)

It’s a solution that is simple and works. ;-)

As an end-user, sure. I’m talking about design/implementation, and designing a wireless bridge still requires an 80211 stack, so from an implementation standpoint, the OS is simpler.

Parts of me think that a huge amount of WiFi’s general behaviour is a bodge

Well I cant defend WEP. That’s what you get when people that know nothing about cryptography design an encryption system. The channel thing I think has to do with roaming.

In that respect it’s smaller than a traditional Pi

But if you bring WiFi to RO5, then Pi Zero W could be a cute little RO box. Much much smaller. xD

Possibly, but I’m not convinced, yet.

I really don’t understand how making a module that will solve a problem could take more time than making an OS from scratch to solve the same problem.

That’s an inelegant solution. I know about wireless bridges but they’re not as stable. Bridges are bodges. Besides that thing is huge.

So I’m lucky. I use one to connect my Pi to my ADSL box, and it works perfectly without a reboot since more than 4 months.

then modernizing it is going to be more work than just porting net80211 from a BSD system.

It’s exactly what will happen to the RISC OS network stack. Why it’s not done? Lack of people/money, not problems in RISC OS code that will make the port impossible.

A lot of RISC OS components come from the BSD world.

It’s bigger than a tiny USB widget, certainly. But it’s a full computer (MIPS based) with RAM, Flash, etc. In that respect it’s smaller than a traditional Pi. ;-)

I feel duty bound to mention Wispy here.

http://riscosbits.co.uk/wispy.htm

It brings WiFi, a modern browser and more to your RISC OS machine!

I did have grand plans to take things further with Wispy but I ended up getting a job working crazy hours (that was a year or so ago and I’m moving on again soon….yay!) and its been developed a bit by other folks since. Now I’m hoping to tackle the browser issues directly with my work on NetSurf (aiming to look at my first feature/bug on Monday or Tuesday depending on how much sleep I feel I need!).

But you know, that kind of badongle can be handy in the absence of a built-in WiFi solution.

This thread is so USENET :)

Hi Rick,

Have you considered puppies instead of kittens? ;-)