what wireless networking hardware is available?

From: Ryan Boder (icanoop_at_bitwiser.org)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: 30 Apr 2004 14:57:51 -0700

Hi,

This is a rather broad question, but any information will be helpful.

What wireless radio / wireless networking hardware is available
commercially that I can develop with? I do ad-hoc network research and
sensor network research. For the people that build wireless networking
systems today, what hardware do you use?

I am looking for any hardware that I can use that gives me complete
control over the MAC layer and up. It would be nice to program all
that in C with maybe a little assembly when it's really needed. It
would be especially good if the physical layer were compatible with
802.11b or 802.11g so that I could make them talk to my PC. I don't
need an 802.11 implementation or anything as I can code that myself.

I have experience with common 802.11b wireless chips from Intersil. I
have used them in the past to build systems and even modified the
firmware to make the MAC do what I needed. But that isn't a very
elegant solution in my opinion.

Motes sound like a good solution, but I don't know where to get them.
I can't get a response from dust networks.

I need something that I can eventually use commercially, rather than
just for research. Is there some de-facto standard that companies are
using for this sort of work and I am just unaware?

Sorry for the broad topic, but I hope this thread will draw
informative responses to help me and others.

Ryan

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