WiFi support in WinCE 6.0

Dear All,

From the documentation of WinCE 6.0, it mentioned that "Windows Embedded CE
6.0 does not support Native Wi-Fi". So if we want to support Wi-Fi in our
OS, do we need to include third-party driver for it, or Wireless LAN (WLAN)
802.11 STA is good enough?

Thanks,
James

Steve
Fri Jun 08 08:35:29 CDT 2007

> From the documentation of WinCE 6.0, it mentioned that "Windows Embedded
> CE
> 6.0 does not support Native Wi-Fi". So if we want to support Wi-Fi in our
> OS, do we need to include third-party driver for it, or Wireless LAN
> (WLAN)
> 802.11 STA is good enough?
I think you are confused on the terminology here. "Native Wi-Fi" is a
technology where the electronics is vvery simplistic and cheap, basicly
little more than the radio, and all the processing of the protocols and
encryptions etc... are done in the host CPU. This was not used much even on
the desktop systems, and had performace problems on the lower powered
embedded processors so it is not supported on Windows CE anymore. Wi-Fi
adapters with a built-in protocol engine of some sort, by far the most
common type, are still supported.

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Steve Maillet
EmbeddedFusion
smaillet@EmbeddedFusion.com