* De: David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-10-12 ]
[ Subjecte: Re: cheap power-pc platform on eBay... ]
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >
> > There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would
> > probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work:
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083
>
> Be careful buying one. I got one a year ago, and even though the ad said
> "Ethernet" it was "Token ring Ethernet". :-(
>
> So I would be very careful to check the model number at the IBM site
> before buying.
They're nice little toys. Mine is Ethernet. You can run NetBSD on them,
but the port is still not outside IBM, as far as I know... Though they
distribute binaries of it. Be sure to get the "2.0" version of their
software -- 1.0 is NCD/OS.
I've got one I'm going to send to Benno as soon as I can afford it. I've
been waiting for that to happen for a few months :/
There are *many* different varieties. Some of them FreeBSD would *NEVER*
want to target. Others would be great. The one PHK points to looks to
be one of the ickier ones.
Check the NetBSD port-powerpc archives, or look around for info of the
ibmnws port.
juli.
--
Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power To Serve
Will break world for fulltime employment. | finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmallett/ | Support my FreeBSD hacking!
To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
