From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 12 10:40: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 9D00A37B401; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:40:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:40:01 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: David O'Brien Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... Message-ID: <20021012104001.A7138@FreeBSD.org> References: <48045.1034409300@critter.freebsd.dk> <20021012173502.GA17049@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20021012173502.GA17049@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 10:35:02AM -0700 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , , X-Towel: Yes X-LiveJournal: flata, jmallett X-Negacore: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * De: David O'Brien [ Data: 2002-10-12 ] [ Subjecte: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... ] > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would > > probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083 > > Be careful buying one. I got one a year ago, and even though the ad said > "Ethernet" it was "Token ring Ethernet". :-( > > So I would be very careful to check the model number at the IBM site > before buying. They're nice little toys. Mine is Ethernet. You can run NetBSD on them, but the port is still not outside IBM, as far as I know... Though they distribute binaries of it. Be sure to get the "2.0" version of their software -- 1.0 is NCD/OS. I've got one I'm going to send to Benno as soon as I can afford it. I've been waiting for that to happen for a few months :/ There are *many* different varieties. Some of them FreeBSD would *NEVER* want to target. Others would be great. The one PHK points to looks to be one of the ickier ones. Check the NetBSD port-powerpc archives, or look around for info of the ibmnws port. juli. -- Juli Mallett | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger jmallett@FreeBSD.org http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message