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From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To: Darren Shepard <dss@orst.edu>
Cc: David Bickle <dbickle@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: PC/104 Embedded Board
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Darren Shepard wrote:

 > >> David Bickle <dbickle@sympatico.ca> wrote: 
 > 
 > | I am looking for a simple inexpensive PC/104 embedded board for building 
 > | small network devices. In particular I am looking for something with 2+ 
 > | ethernet interfaces. Does anyone know of such an animal.
 > 
 > If you don't require a PC/104 form factor, you might look at the net4501,
 > (http://www.soekris.com/) which has 3 enet ports.

Hope this isn't too far off topic, but we've been looking at the net4501
with a view to building [a] remote box/es, living in or near the roof of
one or more of the town's taller buildings, running off a 12V battery
plus charger supply, for routing/relaying a local wireless LAN.

Only apparent obstacle is - can one readily connect a PCI (eg) wavelan
card to the net4501?  I don't know enough about what constitutes the
low-power PCI card requirements of the net4501, what common IEEE802.11b
cards require power-wise, or what other interfacing might be necessary?

Any suggestions welcome, off list if you feel it offtopic for -small?

Cheers, Ian


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