How does the EDUP dongle (that ships with Dreamcatcher) compare to other small USB dongles with Linux drivers?
I havenot at this moment the supported EDUP wifi adapter, but I use a hama produced similar small wifi dongle:
On linux it appeares with this USB id,s: 0bda:8176,
“it is a USB: 0BDA:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter”
Use the 8192cu kernel module:
[Skylark][root@outernet:/home/outernet]$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: G
ext4 312606 1
jbd2 56286 1 ext4
mbcache 4012 1 ext4
cfg80211 205853 0
sun4i_drm 6853 0
8192cu 478789 0
On Skylark 4.4 it come up as AP, without any problem.
To test its performance, I made a simple download process, measure the time of a file, known its size.
I put to the Skylark SD an approx 5 Mbyte size file, practically it is a mp3 file, and I started an ftp from the wifi-connected laptop to download it.
Here is the end of the ftp session,s log, with the measured time and speed:
…
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r–r-- 1 0 0 4892842 Jan 01 00:23 04-keserves.mp3
226 Directory send OK.
ftp> bin
200 Switching to Binary mode.
ftp> get 04-keserves.mp3
local: 04-keserves.mp3 remote: 04-keserves.mp3
200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 04-keserves.mp3 (4892842 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
4892842 bytes received in 2.14 secs (2.1847 MB/s)
ftp>
To compare this download performance with another wifi dongle it can use this ftp download process.
t.janos