From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 24 9:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from asmodeus.diabolis.net (209-6-187-14.c6-0.wth-ubr1.sbo-wth.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.6.187.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB07337BD11 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 09:13:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Received: from asmodeus (asmodeus [192.168.2.6]) by asmodeus.diabolis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA53578; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bunicula@rcn.com) Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 12:09:59 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson X-Sender: bunicula@asmodeus.diabolis.net To: Forrest Aldrich Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cobalt RaQ In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000224101727.00c56c50@216.67.12.69> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > They say that there are not plans to support FreeBSD on these. I've not > had a chance to really rip one apart, but I'm curious if anyone else here > has -- surely it must be possible; the contention point being any of their > proprietary software. i had one in bits next to me last week. the thing that would make it difficult to put something else on them would be the configuration. the front panel has a small lcd and some buttons, which is where the configuration is done. so software for that would have to be written. then the ongoing config is all through a series of web applications, which would need to be ported. there is no keyboard/monitor connector, so network access is critical. brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message