| Magnus on Mon, 9 Jun 2003 14:20:23 -0400 |
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Well, my (lack of) hope for those wanking about GPL issues has more to do with their (lack of) social skills than the plausible results of this particular case. But whatever.
I thought it might interest you. :^>
I think that you may want to hold off and see how the Linksys thing rides out, though. If memory serves, the Linksys routers are vaguely the same thing as the correlative Belkin router, only but the Linksys ones are a bit more techie-friendly (with an eye towards adding antennae and such). Could be. Other more important considerations include memory and flash capacity. It's a lot easier to hack an external antenna onto a box that never had one than it is to increase flash or ram capacity on an embedded device like this, after all. In a perfect world, I'd have 2MB or more of flash to work with, 16MB or more of RAM, and a replaceable external antenna. Bonus if it will boot of a SAN disk instead of flash. I also need a way of re-flashing the firmware with my own distro through hardware (in other words, I don't want to depend on the firmware to reflash the firmware... I want to hook up an SRAM card or some such device, close a jumper, turn the thing on, and flash it that way so if I put in a botched firmware image I can recover). Of course, you and I would both much prefer that it turn out that D-Link was using this same vLinux installation in their 900AP[+] line, but I don't think that's going to happen. I forget what chipset is being used in the 900AP+ but the OpenAP guys turned their nose up at it due to binary only drivers for the wireless card. IIRC the 100BaseTX port was simply NE2000 clone. Another place to look for your holy grail may be Cisco. But you'll pay for the privilege, obviously. Right. The idea is to keep costs down for the smaller nodes. An $80 WAP with an additional $200 of antenna, enclosure, etc. is a lot easier to handle than a $400 WAP with the same extra costs. And also, once you start looking at the Cisco line, the Soekris boards start becoming more attractive. The cost of entry for the Dell is so low I think I'll get one regardless of what happens with Linksys. I mean, I can certainly use it either way even if I don't end up going far with it. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.3.2 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAj7kz50ACgkQYPuF4Zq9lvYUNACdEGIQkLGA1UDVMr/BlnYiXeG5 iRMAoJ1TYx1vCjmlgN7C1nRkQ8U5sA0e =X4wY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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