On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:47:46 -0600 Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> > such as the beagleboard, which > > are good enough to be a desktop > > Ethernet? My kingdom for Ethernet on one of those! > > Is USB Ethernet really viable? It would be nice to hear from anyone > actually doing it (with performance numbers). > > --lyndon > > USB eth works well for me. I use it between my desktop & PDA, both Linux machines, and have successfully (if a little slowly) dumped the PDA's 6GB micro-hard-drive over the connection. I think I measured the speed at 4Gb/s once, but that could have been limited by the PDA's drive. My biggest problem with it was the start-up delays caused by having a bloated Linux system on the PDA, :) but now I've removed Gtk+ and all traces of the GPE "PDA environment" performance is more than acceptable. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
