From owner-freebsd-small Mon Nov 6 15:13:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BB5737B479 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:13:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eA6NCg920717; Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:12:42 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:12:42 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Warner Losh Cc: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for a small machine Message-ID: <20001106151242.A19856@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200011062257.PAA13502@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200011062257.PAA13502@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:57:03PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:57:03PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm looking for good sources of a small machines. I need the machine > to be smaller than a mini-tower in size and able to run FreeBSD. I > need to be able to put two or three nics into this machine, one of > them needs to be ISA (pcmcia bridge). I'm looking for complete > systems. Anybody got a good place to get stuff like this? My last > supplier (of a 7"x3.5"x10" system) is 401 now (they are in bankruptcy > and will likely not emerge). x86, at compat, blah blah blah. Needn't > be fast, but fast enough to handle a 1Mbps pipe through it. > > Since I need 2 nics plus a wireless card, most laptops won't do :-(. > Those that do are about $800 with their docking station. I was > looking for a cheaper solution. Wes Peters would be a good one to ask if he isn't on this list since DoBox is buying these sorts of systems to prototype their product. It looks like FIC sells one that would do (assuming you're ok with one NIC being builtin or buying duel/quad NICs). http://www.fica.com/products/systems/Databook/Sahara1000/Sahara1000.stm I think Wes has a slightly different solution with him, but it was from FIC, IIRC. I've got a Fujistu/Simens Scovery system I bought at auction that would fit the bill except for the ISA issue. I need to find the time to set it up as a PXE booting test box. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message