Difference between revisions of "Wireless extension board"

Revision as of 18:24, 21 January 2010

This extension board (APW) from Armadeus Systems, designed to be pluggable on an APF27Dev, will give your system the following wireless capabilities (depending on the options you selected):

• WiFi b/g and Bluetooth (same chip)
• GSM/GPRS
• GPS

Figure 1: APW with all options populated (no antenna)

Linux configuration

• Linux will have to be configured in order to tell it that an APW is connected to your APF27Dev:

$ make linux26-menuconfig

System Type  --->
    Freescale MXC Implementations  --->
            ...
            Extension board (Wireless (APW))  --->
       [ ] GSM/GPRS Modem (NEW)
       [ ] Bluetooth & WiFi module (NEW)
       [ ] CSI (Camera) pass-through (NEW)
       [ ] GPS module (NEW)

Select the options installed on your APW board.

$ make linux26

• reflash you Linux kernel

Using the interfaces from Linux

• WiFi: use Linux libertas driver
• GPS
• GSM/GPRS

Links

• Board infos on Armadeus Systems website (datasheet, schematics)