Re: metrix and Soekris questions

On 1/9/06, Gary <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The recent questions about m0n0wall prompted me to post this since I
> couldn't get m0n0 to bridge my WLAN and LAN interfaces (Soekris 4501
> board with a Senao prism 2.5 based mini-PCI card). In fact, the only
> small OS I've had any luck with was OpenBSD 3.7 (last summer prior to
> 3.8's release). FYI, I used a kernel from flashboot
> (http://www.mindrot.org/flashboot.html) and an install script from
> flashdist (http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/). I might try nanoBSD
> next since it appears to be a variant of picoBSD rolled in to the
> official FreeBSD release.
>
> Anyhow, I've just successfully installed the aging pebble linux on a
> 128mb CF card. I've been reading through the metrix pebble release notes
> and although it says its optimized for newer PCMCIA based Soekris
> boards, it's alleged to work ok on the 4501. Before I spend a lot of
> time with this, does anyone have it running on a 4501 and, if so, are
> there any caveats?


I have run it on a 4501 without any problems. This was using a prism2 based
pci wireless card. I think 4501 was one of the boxes it was intially tested
on when pebble was created. Are you using the pebble from metrix or from the
nycwireless.net site?

-Ken


Much thanks,
> Gary
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