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PhidgetSBC3 and D-Link DWA-160

There's actually a much easier way of doing this. Just apt-get install firmware-linux-free and boom! You get the carl9170 firmware and the DWA-160 is recognized.

I recently got my hands on a PhidgetSBC3 and plugged a D-Link DWA-160 into and found that it already had support built into the kernel but it had an error. So I went searching in the /lib/firmware directory and saw there was no carl9170-1.fw file. So I downloaded and when I plugged the DWA-160 back in it worked and correctly showed up in the web interface. Installing it is very easy:

apt-get install curl -y
curl -L http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/carl9170/fw1.9.7?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=carl9170-1.fw > /lib/firmware/carl9170-1.fw

PhidgetSBC2 and D-Link DWA-160

So I've had a little project going on with the foosball table at work: a system to detect when someone scores a goal. I've built a prototype photogate that goes inside of the goal. My design is to have 2 photogates hooked up to my PhidgetSBC2 and write some ruby code to detect a goal and send a message to a connected iPad app to indicate who scored. Everything was going fine until I took the PhidgetSBC2 to our foosball table and discovered our 2.4GHz network had no coverage there. Which means the wifi usb adapter I had for the PhidgetSBC2 was useless. Undeterred I started on 2 different solutions.

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