From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 9 03:35:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA17573 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:35:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www.biella.alpcom.it (www.biella.alpcom.it [194.243.65.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA17388 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 03:32:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it) Received: from biella.alpcom.it (www1.biella.alpcom.it [194.243.65.2]) by www.biella.alpcom.it (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA29507 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 12:31:34 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3646D0B0.55D997F5@biella.alpcom.it> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 12:23:29 +0100 From: Cristian Angelini Reply-To: chr.ang@biella.alpcom.it X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: PC/104 and picobsd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi everybody ! It's some months I read this mailing list just because I use freebsd happily and with much satisfaction, mine and of my customer, and because I'm a lot curious in small systems and small PC. Now, we've been committed to develop a small device that may allow to communicate the position of medical personnel and relavite cars to a central server via GSM phone calls and in the future probably some GPS devices. I won't discuss the details of this work, what is important is that I read in the last months about some little PC embedded in single, small cards called pc/104. I soon realized that this could be a great opportunity to start using picobsd and that cards for something completely different that router setup and so on (what I do mainly now). In few words, something extremely interesting. What I need now it's some more information about the use of picobsd in a pc/104 environment. I read the info on the Mesa site, but I still lack some basic startup hints: what items should I buy to completely develop a prototype and so on. Are all the devices implemented on that cards (Flash IDE, ethernet,..) completely supported by picobsd ? May I install something like PPP on that cards ? Someone with more experience than me could tell me what kind of problems I could find with such a setup ? Some hints would be a great help :) Christian Angelini To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message