Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 00:20 schrieb Paul Hoffman: > Greetings again. I'm looking to buy a couple of cheap old laptops to > be used as temporary routers. They just need to be able to handle > PCMCIA Ethernet cards, not much more (having an Ethernet connector on > the motherboard is fine, of course.) I don't want to run XWindows, > and I'm sure 64 MB and a 1gig hard drive would suffice. > > Are there any brands/models I should lean towards? Ones I should avoid?
Bad idea IMHO. I'd suggest having a look at http://www.soekris.com/ (net4501 for easiest requirements, better 4801, all in one extendable box) or if you need just basic 586cpu-power without extendability and only (well designed) ethernet ports see: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm You can use any type of PC as terminal to operate these boxes vi the serial interface. Perhaps you already have any old vt100 terminal handy. But I don''t have an answer to your original question, sorry. Although I'd like to mention that old laptops often can't handle modern PC-CARDSs (CARDBUS), PCMCIA was 5v and 16 bit wide, very slow and really not sutable for routing purposes! -Harry > > --Paul Hoffman > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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