[Cu-wireless] solid state design

[David Young]

I really dig that set-top box. I think it will serve us very well.
Did you notice that it is socketed for Disk-On-Chip?

One PCI slot is versatile enough for our needs. You can put a DWL-520
into it, OR you can put a 2-slot CardBus reader into it and then plug
in two Aironet 350's or two antenna-less, OEM Lucent cards.

(For $99, you can buy an amtron.com 2-slot CardBus reader for PCI bus.
 And for $76.80, Peter tells me you can buy the PCI-bus PCMCIA reader
 called DataChute from 2buystore.com. It is not advertised or sold as
 a CardBus reader, but Peter says that it has a CardBus chip on it,
 and OpenBSD detects it as a CardBus interface.)

I am intrigued by the idea of booting from the network.

Dave

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:54:02PM -0600, Zachary C. Miller wrote:
> Just looking into cheap ways to deploy no-moving-parts router boxes
> close to the antenna. Obviously so far our best bet is that flashable
> workstation but here's an interesting thought: 
> 
> In mid-2001 these cost about $300 apparently. 
> http://www.gctglobal.com/Products/Set_Top_Box/set_top_box_0.html
> 
> But here's an interesting gimmic. Instead of being limitted to the
> onboard disk-on-module which might be expensive...why not remote boot
> through PCX from another regular desktop computer on the local
> ethernet. We can also provide power via power-over-ethernet. Then we
> just tuck this box up in the attic as close to the antenna as possible
> and go from there.
> 
> These boxes only downfall is that they don't have a PCCard slot, but
> they do have a PCI slot.
> 

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