Open Wireless Hardware

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Description

From a meeting organized by Guifi.net, which came to a consensus of the need to define 3 separate devices: simple node, complex node, and wireless USB devices:

"The aim of these definitions shall be, that they can be given to various hardware manufacturers in the world, hoping that one or more of them are going to build these devices. We are all very positive that the various free wireless communities around the globe will make extensive use of these devices so that the manufacturers' efforts will pay off.

The definition of Open Hardware was defined to be a system that runs a free open source software (FOSS) based operating system with full FOSS driver support for all included components, plus a freely available complete documentation on the entire hardware and its design.

The device should be shipped with a FOSS operating system. Amongst the attendees of the workshop the most preferred OS would be OpenWRT plus a nice and well designed webGUI on top of it." (http://guifi.net/en/node/9765)

Detailed descriptions at http://guifi.net/en/node/9765

More Information

See the info on the meeting here: http://wiki.freifunk.net/OpenHardware