Wi-Fi integrated into SD card

Who ever heard or thought of such a thing? Well someone did and it is now available on the open market. We can forget about Wi-Fi daughter cards with one of these babies. Eye-Fi 4 GB Connect X2 SDHC Class 6 Wireless Flash Memory Card

wallarug over 13 years ago

billabott wrote:

Who ever heard or thought of such a thing?
I have seen these around for many years now. I just thought they were too expensive and not worth the time.

I am not sure if it would work with the Raspberry Pi though. Not much does.

Here is another one: http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=XC5620

8GB Class 6.
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billabott over 13 years ago in reply to wallarug

Point taken, at the old price that was true, but what about the future? with falling prices on that tech.

I take it that having a RaspPi has not been a joy for you and some others, eh? What about the million plus copies of the Pi going to the 3rd World? Care for a job with the Peace Corp - Digital Training Legion?
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GreenYamo over 13 years ago in reply to billabott

I used to have a wi-fi SD card for my old PDA without wireless. I also had a Wireless CF card as well, sold both of them for the princely sum of £5 on ebay recently. Never even thought of using them on my Pi.

Tend to agree with Fergus though, not sure what the chances of getting them working. Mind you, bit late for me now ! :-)

Perhaps I could buy the SD one back !

Steve
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to wallarug

The ethernet did not work,returned kit,but the usb wi-fi worked and I didn.t have to install it,seems to be built in to rasparian wheezy.pluggesd in and worked.as reported the upgrade went into a loop
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wallarug over 13 years ago in reply to billabott

billabott wrote:

I take it that having a RaspPi has not been a joy for you and some others, eh?
It is not that I have had a bad time with the raspberry pi (I have had a very good time with it so far). It is a known fact that some hardware does not work very well with the raspberry pi. I thought this could be one of those bits of hardware.

It seems that it would require its own software which might not be very compadible with linux.

That is the point I was making above. I was not 'bagging out' the raspberry pi.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to wallarug

You might want to check out the Electric Imp an open source wireless SD card
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