From owner-freebsd-small Fri Oct 19 22:56:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 301AD37B6E1 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:52:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9K5pfp72804; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:51:41 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200110200551.f9K5pfp72804@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: PC/104 Embedded Board In-Reply-To: from Ian Smith at "Oct 20, 2001 05:52:59 am" To: smithi@nimnet.asn.au (Ian Smith) Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:51:41 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > > > 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? > We are using the Orinoco Mini PCI cards that we buy through Dell. They work just fine after a BIOS upgrade on the net4501 handle the CardBus bridge interrupt correctly. Here is what it looks like on a net4501: pcic0: mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000fff irq 10 at devi ce 16.0 on pci0 pcic0: TI12XX PCI Config Reg: [pwr save][pci only] pccard0: on pcic0 ... pccard: card inserted, slot 0 wi0: at port 0x100-0x13f irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0 wi0: Ethernet address: 00:02:2d:25:5c:f3 It probes as a "Dell" "TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card" John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message