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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> > We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the |
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> > net5501) per year at work: |
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> > http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php |
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> > And make them do various things ranging in intensity from data |
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> > servers to gateway/firewall/routers and so on. We've used IDE and |
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> > flash in them, usually IDE for the convenience. We compile for x86. |
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> > The 4 network ports are nice, and there's some GPIO to boot. |
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> I'm intrigued. How do you connect displays to them? I assume you'd need |
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> one for at least the first steps of installing an OS, no? |
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no :) There is a serial port which is good enough for a console, which |
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you can use until your network is working. After you've set up the |
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first one, then we copy the image to the next. |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Nothing is as simple as it seems at first |
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Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle |
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Or as finished as it seems in the end. |
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