From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 26 10:49: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C4337B719 for ; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15020; Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:48:50 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326114451.00e78f00@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:48:42 -0700 To: David , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: ->NIC<- Compat and Reliability In-Reply-To: <01032611060400.00288@david.thecafe.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have been working with a fellow who finally got disgusted and sent his back. It has NO hard drive; it boots Linux from a CD-ROM. And it's a brain dead version of Linux; you can't even get to a shell! This user couldn't even get the system to execute a login script when it dialed, so that it could log into a university computer network. He gave up and shipped it back. He can get a more functional used laptop for less. Don't know how reliable the hardware is. It might possibly work with FreeBSD, but you'd have to do a stripped-down PicoBSD-like kernel for it. If you're looking for small, simple boxes, there are likely to be better ways to go. I'd dump the CD-ROM for a small hard disk myself. --Brett At 09:06 AM 3/26/2001, David wrote: >Well, seeing as this is a tad OT, I decided to post to chat here: > >I've been doing some searching around the Net for small time surfing >boxes and came across the "NIC". I was wandering if anyone has had any >experience with these and if there are any compatability issue's ( I >already assume the modem is of no use being a win-modem presumably) > >I'm also looking too find out about the reliability of the unit's >seeing as they are relatively new, and if anyone has used them or are >useing them, what there thoughts are for useing them as a stand alone >cheap surfing box. > >Also, if anyone has links too similar type's of unit's i'd be most >gratefull, modem's are not as important as ethernet, seeing as >everything will be running on a LAN. > >oh, and if not already obvious, ability to work with FreeBSD is of most >concern. > >Thanks > >David > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message