From owner-freebsd-small Fri Oct 19 13: 9:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16D3937B407 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f9JK96P11714; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:09:06 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 13:09:06 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Ian Smith Cc: Darren Shepard , David Bickle , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC/104 Embedded Board Message-ID: <20011019130906.A11143@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20011019114100.A437@eel.ENGR.ORST.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from smithi@nimnet.asn.au on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:52:59AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 05:52:59AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > 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? 802.11b cards are by an large 5v cards so they won't work in the slot (it's only got 3.3v support). You should be able to run a mini-PCI card in the mini-PCI slot though. You can pick them up as spairs or laptop upgrades. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE70IhiXY6L6fI4GtQRArsTAJ9/6Wj0vCK4WYazMrg0gCZqaTNb/wCbBPmB FATeUbA3TCxdeLchDteobkM= =BEZZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7AUc2qLy4jB3hD7Z-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message