Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 11:48:42 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: David <ddavid@ican.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ->NIC<- Compat and Reliability Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010326114451.00e78f00@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01032611060400.00288@david.thecafe.ca>
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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
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