sutekh
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While I still entertain the fantasy of someday finding time to reverse engineer the Duo's modem board and develop an internal Wifi NIC, this quick and effective, if less elegant and more cumbersome solution will have to serve for now. I got the idea from user @ants, who's done some awesome work introducing wifi to the SE platform, along with a handful of nifty utilities. Of the several wifi bridge / repeater modules he's developed against, the Vonets VM-300 seemed particularly well suited to portable computing. I.e., it's compact, has (relatively) low power consumption, and runs on 5vdc. More info is available here: http://www.vonets.com/ProductViews.asp?D_ID=33#
So I ordered one up on Amazon, knocked together a custom 3D printed enclosure, soldered an ADB power dongle to replace the included USB part, and voila! ADB-powered wifi A 10Base-T NIC is, of course, a pre-requisite, with a Newer Technology Ethernet Microdock serving that purpose in my application. It's particularly well suited here as it provides not only an RJ45, but also an ADB port, which of course the Duo lacks by default. Anyway, food for thought. Happy to share the CAD drawings if anyone wants to duplicate.
I hope to put it to use with my PB-180c as well, but I'll first need to track down a more portable NIC than the Asante EN/SC it's currently using. Dayna / Asante micro SCSI pricing is absurd, but maybe a Farallon Etherwave PB will turn up on the auction site...
So I ordered one up on Amazon, knocked together a custom 3D printed enclosure, soldered an ADB power dongle to replace the included USB part, and voila! ADB-powered wifi A 10Base-T NIC is, of course, a pre-requisite, with a Newer Technology Ethernet Microdock serving that purpose in my application. It's particularly well suited here as it provides not only an RJ45, but also an ADB port, which of course the Duo lacks by default. Anyway, food for thought. Happy to share the CAD drawings if anyone wants to duplicate.
I hope to put it to use with my PB-180c as well, but I'll first need to track down a more portable NIC than the Asante EN/SC it's currently using. Dayna / Asante micro SCSI pricing is absurd, but maybe a Farallon Etherwave PB will turn up on the auction site...
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