From owner-freebsd-small Sat Apr 14 9:20:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF3C37B63C for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 09:20:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA91800; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:20:32 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:20:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Gunther Schadow Cc: Subject: Re: The ultimate board! In-Reply-To: <3AD76BAA.25636489@aurora.regenstrief.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote: > you remember I had trouble with the DiskOnChip media/driver. I now > have a board that uses compact flash and it works beautifully. I > want you all to know about this board, because it is really > inexpensive in every respect. Is a i468/132 MHz with 32 MB DRAM on > board. It runs on a cheap 12V / 9W wallmount adapter, has no fans, > doesn't even need a heat sink. It comes with 3 x 100 BT ethernet > ports ideal for router/firewall settop boxes. Here for you the > kernel probes: [...snip...] > sis0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000ff Ewww... Is this a good enough Ethernet chipset? I've not had good luck with any of SiS's stuff. They seem to make, for lack of a nicer word, crap. > The only problem with this is that it isn't available unless we > all place one big order to get it manufactured. Soeren knows how > to do this he just doesn't have the venture capital to do it. The > board can be ready for all of us if we find a way to finance it > collectively. I would be interested in one if the overall hardware itself is decent enough, though I realize better hardware means more money. If someone runs it through some obstacle courses and the "junk" works without any known problems, I'm for it. I'm not in the position to buy more than one. I have friends that might be interested as well, though. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message