Vitaliy wrote:
> It matters because I'm trying to remember what our rationale was, for
> not picking a ZeroG module for our project. I know for sure that we
> looked at them back in the summer of '09 and IIRC they weren't FCC
> precertified or didn't work out of the box (required code) or both.

I thought they are FCC certified.  One version has a integrated antenna, so
it pretty much has to be certified.  The other version has a standard WiFi
antenna jack, and I thought was FCC certified if you use one of a specific
set of qualified antennas.  I could be wrong as I haven't looked deeply into
this end of things, but frankly nobody would buy these modules if they
weren't certified.

Back last summer Microchip did not yet own ZeroG, but there was a driver for
the modules in Microchip's network stack.  Maybe it was experimental at that
time.  I heard from both sides (ZeroG and Microchip) last masters that ZeroG
did a special version of their firmware for Microchip so that the existing
ENC28J60 driver could be re-used as much as possible.  I remember the ZeroG
people grumbling that they had to dumb down their module and not use the on
board memory management to be compatible with the ENC28J60.


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