Re: ISP Modem Dialup

These boxes are way too limited for most stuff.  1MB Flash / 4MB Ram is
just too darn tight.  I spent way too much time on these
bad boys before I went to Soekris.    It is quite a bit more money, but
you get 64MB of RAM and a CF slot + you can shove a
200MW radio in it.  The components are all industrial rated instead of
commercial.  As far as adding a PPP type backup you can
pretty much forget it.  As for a "File Manager", what would you be
managing?  The files are sitting on a RO filesystem in flash
that is at 98% of capacity.

As for getting PPPD on there . . .
[keith@tempe] /var/log<342>cat /usr/sbin/pppd | gzip > /tmp/pppd.gz
[keith@tempe] /var/log<343>l /tmp/pppd.gz
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        92630 Nov 24 21:07 /tmp/pppd.gz

Your going to have to trim ~100K (compressed!) off the image. Plus . . .

[keith@tempe] /var/log<345>size /usr/sbin/pppd
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 179523   12032   44496  236051   39a13 /usr/sbin/pppd

This bad boy is going to gobble up some serious RAM if you try and fire
it up.

You can take zipslack, and hack it up for a 128MB flash, or even strip
it down or split it up and make a
really nice setup with lots of tools way too easy, and put the whole
thing together for under $250 on
soekris.

I'm running a custom soekris setup, and I can't find enough I care about
to eat even a 64MB flash.

--Keith

David Richards wrote:

>
> Greetings list people.
> The list has been very quiet recently but I have just started looking
> at my USR wlan and I am wondering if it could do the job of being a
> access point with a dial on demand interface to a isp using an
> external modem. Does anyone know if this is at all possible.? Waht I
> have in mind is something like an Apple airport with built in modem.
> Is there anybody there taht can help me? I have already got it
> converted to Linuxap V 20030831.16:21:01 with terminal and web
> interfaces.
> n.b. would it be a simple matter to include a file manager , does
> anybody know how to do this?
> Regards,Dave.
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