Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 20:59:48 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: FreeBSD Chat Mailing List <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Embedded servers + PicoBSD? Message-ID: <v0422081ab69e1e25e3aa@[172.17.1.121]>
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Folks, The story on /. about the Netcomm Modem/Hub/Server (running an embedded version of Linux, see <http://www.linuxworld.com.au/article.php3?aid=124&tid=1>) has gotten me thinking about how you could do something like this (or even better) on FreeBSD. It also occurred to me that you could do the WAN networking part with standard PC Cards, and you could even throw in wireless 802.11b networking as well. Does anyone know of any good embedded hardware systems that are well-supported by FreeBSD, and can support a hard drive (e.g., an IDE/ATAPI drive like you might find in a laptop), plus a couple of PC Cards? If you've got this much, I think most of the rest of the drivers pretty much already fall right into place, and all you'd have to do is cook up a case to put the thing in, and a small four or five-port hub to plug onto the back of the machine (which would then get integrated into the case). Just curious. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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