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Poll: Would YOU like to see NetBSD on a Meshcube? Or on an AVM Fritzbox? (Update #2)
Garrett D'Amore has started working on getting NetBSD
to support the
4G Access Cube (formerly known as Meshcube),
and he's currently running a
poll on the port-mips@ list
to see if there would be enough interest to prod
the manufacturer into sending him hardware to
make sure the port works fine.
As I'm looking for something to hold my DSL line (i.e. to run
PPPoE) with two ethernets, a USB v2.0 (fast!) port
and maybe a harddisk, I'd take one (assuming the
Cube can do that... unfortunately their specs are
not very clear :-/)
If the hardware sounds sexy to you, be sure to send mail to Garrett!
Updates:
First, Martin Husemann has posted a
dmesg output
of his Meshcube, and some of the caveats of the
machine were mentioned: price ($700), USB1.1 only,
no connector for second ethernet(!), funky serial connector.
On the brigt side, Garrett also
offered
to look into getting NetBSD to run on an
AVM Fritzbox,
and with a price of less than 200EUR for
something that has 4* ethernet, USB and WLAN that
sounds pretty good. (Not to mention the support for
DSL, POTS and ISDN on the SoC, but I doubt NetBSD has any
support in that area... yet?). The offer of Garret requires
availability of docs (which I am
hopeful for
the CPU/SoC
as well as for some
Linux sources to peek at),
plus for someone to send him hardware. Any takers for
supporthing this thing? I'd throw in 50EUR, drop me (hubertf@NetBSD.org)
mail if you want to see NetBSD run on this fine hardware, too!
Update #2:
Asking 4G systems about the price of the Meshcube/Accesscube
resulted in them telling me that they don't offer
the hardware any more. Well, I'd prefer a port to the
AVM box anyways. ;))
[Tags: dmesg, fritzbox, meshcube, polls]
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