Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:19:49 +0000 From: Alan Clegg <abc@bsdi.com> To: "Mitterwald, Holger" <mittehlg@coi.de> Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC computer? Message-ID: <20000822121948.F67500@diskfarm.firehouse.net> In-Reply-To: <39A2274A.4EDADF94@coi.de>; from mittehlg@coi.de on Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 09:10:02AM %2B0200 References: <39A2274A.4EDADF94@coi.de>
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Out of the ether, Mitterwald, Holger spewed forth the following bitstream: > has anybody seen the "NIC" network computer? (http://www.thinknic.com). > The device is sold for $199. It has built in ethernet, softmodem and > USB. Yes, I have two of them. Nice and cheap. It also has sound which I'm not sure is supported at this time. > The OS is a Linux System started from the builtin CDROM and seems > completely run out of it. As it seems there is a FlashDisk in the device. > And I have seen that it is capable of DHCP. It has a 4MB 'flash' IDE drive as the secondary IDE device (CD-ROM is primary). They use the flash as storage for 'settings'. Having brought a "LinuxCare" cd-greeting-card back from LinuxWorld, I was able to boot from that and play a bit with what they were saving. I've not yet been able to write a bootable image to the flash. Also, the NIC is PXE bootable via BIOS setup, and the Ethernet is sis(4) compliant so it works out-of-the-box (booting from disk0 or disk1 from the boxed set). > Anyone tested it with picoBSD? I'm currently punching it around a bit with PXE booting and then running 100% via NFS. It is not running _right_, but hopefully will be soon. AlanC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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