Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 10:38:57 -0500 From: Outback Dingo <outbackdingo@gmail.com> To: Steven Lawrance <stl@koffein.net> Cc: freebsd-embedded <freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: embedded board with 3 X wireless Message-ID: <CAKYr3zzBhSATeepKeAA3oWvjyrA7mJ-atfH62WOL%2BiR6OUrfWQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1394115523-sup-9508@luwak.koffein.net> References: <20140305105917.GA55874@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <1394115523-sup-9508@luwak.koffein.net>
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On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Steven Lawrance <stl@koffein.net> wrote: > Excerpts from John Hay's message of 2014-03-05 11:59:17 +0100: > > We have been using AVILA, xscale arm based boards with 4 X MiniPCI slots > > for a long time now. They are getting EOL and I was wondering what to > > replace it with. Any ideas? Here is my short list of requirements: > > > > - Run FreeBSD > > - Boot from itself, even if you need to add some flash. We used CF on > AVILA. > > - Possible to have 3 X wireless. It can be a mix of builtin and some form > > of expansion. Wireless needs an antenna connector so that an > > external antenna can be connected. > > - 1 X Ethernet. More won't hurt, but is not needed. > > - 128MB RAM or more. > > I'm not sure just how _good_ the support is, but since nobody else has > mentioned it, it might be worth taking a look at some of the MIPS > boards, such as the RouterStation Pro (http://www.ubnt.com/rspro) or > Im fairly sure the RS/RSPRO line from Ubiquiti has already long been end of life. you can buy them anymore, unless used on ebay i would guess Aside from that, look at ALIX, they have a new ALIX APU board coming w/ 3x minipci and run FreeBSD fine > MikroTik RB433AH (http://routerboard.com/RB433AH). They both have > three MiniPCI slots and the former already has a kernel config in > sys/mips/conf... > > cheers, > Steven > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-embedded > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-embedded-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >
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