Connect pc wifi adaptor to iDevice?

[UberN00b]

Anyone heard of someone connecting a wifi adaptor like ALFA or Signal King to an iDevice. From what I remember about phone antennas is having to worry about battery drain and  frying your circuits from the antenna being too powerful or something. I'm thinking you could use a USB to headphone jack adaptor or splice the USB and headphone jack together to connect and wget/dpkg to install the linux card driver. If nothing else atleast drop the proper keywords to send me in the proper direction.

Reasoning for: Although its not so stealthy with the adaptor sticking out like a sore thumb, it wouldn't matter. With the range of the antenna you could screw with everyone in Starbucks from your car, a nearby rooftop, or bus stop  across the street... That is of course if it can be done.

[Apetrick]

Honestly I don't think it is possible, apple made it so that the connector only sends out a tiny amount of voltage that probably wouldnt be enough to power the antenee

[UberN00b]

So external power supply? Being as theiDevice only needs to recieve/transmit data.
Apart from installing the driver would any software tweakIng need to take place?

[Apetrick]

Most likely, probably a complete kernel recompilation to make it support that antenee. But I'm not 100% sure on that.

[Trcx528]

I believe it would be possible to load a driver, the problem is finding a driver that is usable on iOS.  Most drivers are for the x86/x64 architecture.  The N900 does have arm drivers for the alfa, but the N900 runs a linux kernel where iOS uses XNU, so the driver wouldn't work. 


I hope that makes sense. 

[UberN00b]

I believe it would be possible to load a driver, the problem is finding a driver that is usable on iOS.  Most drivers are for the x86/x64 architecture.  The N900 does have arm drivers for the alfa, but the N900 runs a linux kernel where iOS uses XNU, so the driver wouldn't work. 


I hope that makes sense.

Yeah, translation --> incompatible. The only thing is i thought iOS WAS Linux based because I use the same commands in iSSH or m.Terminal as Ubuntu/BT. Anyways, ill look into differences myself later.

[A12danrulz]

iOS is Debian based when its jailbroken.

[Trcx528]

Well technically it just is borrowing the apt packaging system from debian, it is not debian.  Underneath it still is darwin, and use the XNU kernel (vs the linux kernel)

The problem comes when people start mixing Linux and GNU.  Linux is only the kernel, it really isn't useful as a standalone.  GNU is the free software that runs on top of *nux like systems.  GNU and Linux have become very related but they still are separate.  And since Darwin (iOS/OS X) is unix like, using the XNU kernel (technically a merge of the BSD kernel and Mach kernel), GNU software runs on it.   

Hope I don't come across as snobbish, but this is a subtly that many miss. 

[LankAsif]

Well technically it just is borrowing the apt packaging system from debian, it is not debian.  Underneath it still is darwin, and use the XNU kernel (vs the linux kernel)

The problem comes when people start mixing Linux and GNU.  Linux is only the kernel, it really isn't useful as a standalone.  GNU is the free software that runs on top of *nux like systems.  GNU and Linux have become very related but they still are separate.  And since Darwin (iOS/OS X) is unix like, using the XNU kernel (technically a merge of the BSD kernel and Mach kernel), GNU software runs on it. 

Ah ok, so it runs off magic? Gotcha
complexity scale = Quantum physics -----> Morality ------------>Trcx's share

I always just thought that terminal was simply a Linux emulator.

[A12danrulz]

I just don't know enough about low level systems to understand the differences between that, but whatever.

[1337]

I thought I saw a video on YT with one build in it's case but yeh, it's youtube so probably fake but I think it's possile because I saw it several times