From owner-freebsd-small Tue Apr 17 16:23:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from server.soekris.com (dnai-216-15-61-44.cust.dnai.com [216.15.61.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51BE437B43F for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:23:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Received: from soekris.com ([192.168.1.4]) by server.soekris.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id QAA80509; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:23:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Message-ID: <3ADCD087.F6434A6F@soekris.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:23:51 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen Organization: Soekris Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Dillon Cc: Brooks Davis , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ultimate board! Wireless.... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Chris, I have actually been looking on that board for a while, and are working on getting one for testing. I'm assuming that I would qualify as an OEM, although a small one.... That would also mean that I will locate antennas and make a version of my case to support them. I don't expect the board to be especially expensive. Soren Chris Dillon wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 05:55:43PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote: > > > Cool! Are there many manufacturers who are making peripherals in the > > > MiniPCI form factor yet? One interest might be a MiniPCI 802.11b > > > card. > > > > http://www.wavelan.com/template.html?section=m57&page=2511&envelope=93 > > I see we have support for this in the form of the wi(4) driver. They > mention that this is an OEM-only board, though, so I would probably > have a hard time getting my hands on it. Any chance you could offer > the 128-bit version as an additional option, Soren? :-) > > Where to find a correct antenna for the thing would be the next > problem... Ideally, I'd stick some kind of connector on the case > (BNC?) and attach a small rubber-ducky antenna to that. The connector > would also allow a much larger remote external antenna on it, of > course. Any ideas/URLs? > > -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message