Re: Request for info...

In the future, please send all information requests to the familiar mailing
list
at familiar@handhelds.org. This is a community project and you will generally
get better answers to questions submitted to the community as a whole.
However
I will try to provide some answers and maybe the community can correct my
mistakes.

At 10:03 AM 8/9/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am a graduate student at Duke University and would be very grateful to
you if
>you could provide me with some information on "Familiar", with relation to
my
>second year reserach project.
>
>I have come to learn that Familiar Linux is totally open source, including
the
>communication subsystem. Is that right?
>

That is corrrect. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by communication
subsystem,
but the Linux kernel source that we use can be found in the
http://handhelds.org
CVS repository. Please see http://handhelds.org/sources.html

>Does the Familiar project support 802.11b and bluetooth? Would you have
any idea
>as to whether any company has brought out 802.11b and bluetooth modules
for the
>handhelds running Familiar Linux? If so, could you please recommend a
company
>from which I can buy the same from?
>

Since we use an only slightly modified Linux kernel, familiar can potentially
support any hardware that Linux supports. Several 802.11b cards are currently
supported, I myself use an SMC2632W, an Intersil Prism2 based card. Lucent
cards are supported also, as well as others. I'm not certain of bluetooth
support. Perhaps someone else can step up to the plate on that one.

>Regards,
>Abhijit.
>
>---
>Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse.
>

Ken Causey (nikos)
Received on Thu Aug 9 07:12:11 2001