Re: Maldita kernel...

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 17:00 -0300, Bruno L. F. Cabral wrote:
> Benjamin Henrion wrote:
> > BTW, is there a more recent kernel running on the sc400?
> 
> No that I'm aware off, but a few weeks ago I found a place
> selling new eumitcomm boards. here is the link
> 
> http://starnetwifi.com/product_info.php?cPath=36&products_id=108
> 
> Cheers
> !3runo

I was curious. . . I think these are not "new" per-se.  Perhaps a
production run sell-off.  In particular the sc400 is no longer
available.  I'm sure deep pockets could get a production run, but I
doubt you could obtain the CPU for $22, much less the board all that
discrete logic is sitting on.  My guess is actual production cost on
that board would be around $70 @ 1000.  I had a run lined up a while
back from Tiawan for Qty 1K @$100ea, but they insisted on the exact same
board, and we wanted the 66Mhz CPU, 8MB RAM and a 2M flash.  The board
was capable, the manufacturer was not willing.  The RAM is/was the
biggie.  2M/8MB would actually make this board useful.  The thing really
struggled with some of the encryption stuff though, and the BUS was
pathetic.

I have one of these left here as a spare.  All the rest the mainboards
died, continuously rebooting. <sigh>.  Power is also a problemm, the 9v
1.1a transformer that came with these things was real junk.  All but one
of those I owned died.  The wifi cards in them however are about
indestructable.  I have a pile of them, all 100% functional, most at
1.7.1 now.

You can put together a WRAP .2C:
Board    120
Case      15
Flash     15
CM6       25 (Atheros E-bay)
Pigtail   10
WallWart  10

Total  <200

For a 266Mhz, SC1100  w/64MB RAM and 128MB flash compare to a 33Mhz
SC400 w/4MB RAM and 1M flash
8x faster, 16x RAM, 128x Storage (and you can take this right on up into
the GB's if you
fancy).  This is a "no-brainer".

We have been steadily replacing the WL11000's as they croak.  I have 2
left in production here.

For a few more bucks you can get a soekris, in a steel cabinet you can
beat with a sledgehammer, Now if we could just figure out how to get rid
of the U.FL connectors on those mini-pci cards we'll be
good-to-go. . .:)

For $80 you can get an ATHEROS A/B/G mini-pci board 400mW from
mwave.com, if you need to just blast it out.  Madwifi not quite up to
hostap, but it's improving.  Supports hostapd now too.

Frankly, new drivers and capabilities for these chipsets require too
much space for the silly emuticom.  I'll breathe a sigh of relief when I
retire the last one.  Going to get rid of the other two in the next 60
days.

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