On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 12:02:29AM +0200, Stefan Schmidt wrote: > Hello. > > On 28.07.2016 19:40, Don Zickus wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > > > I was wondering what boards/chips folks like yourself use to develop/test > > the 802.15.4 work? I noticed the website http://wpan.cakelab.org/ mentions > > a bunch of boards. Some of those pointers don't work and the ones that do, > > show standalone boards that need to be wired up to a SPI bus. > > > > I assume the SPI bus is easily found on a rPI-like board. Is it difficult to > > hook one of them up to an x86 desktop? > > You might be able to do this with some USB dongle exposing some GPIOs to > to the kernel but I never used anything like that. Most of my > transceivers are connected to Pi's. So it goes down to embedded. > > I'm in the lucky position though to have two ATUSB dongles which are > simple USB dongles and get connected to your x86 systems with ease. > They work out of the box in mainline since 4.1 and the firmware is open > source as well. The problem right now is that it is now longer being sold. This sounds like a simple way to get started... > > We are working on changing this though. See my mail from a few minutes > ago to this list about interest for a new ATUSB production batch. > Right now we would estimate them being on sale again sometime in October > (the smaller fabs we are using for SMT is on holiday and we also need to > prepare things in our spare time). > > If this is to far away, fair enough. If it does not really matter to you > and you would have an interest to use them please let me know so I can > better estimate the needed number of devices for the batch. I don't see an archives for this mailing list, so I can't see your previous email. How much would this cost? I might be up for buying 5 or so. Cheers, Don -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wpan" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
