On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 04:55:05 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > We buy about 5 - 10 of these (started on the net4801, now the > > net5501) per year at work: > > http://www.yawarra.com.au/hw-net5501.php > > And make them do various things ranging in intensity from data > > servers to gateway/firewall/routers and so on. We've used IDE and > > flash in them, usually IDE for the convenience. We compile for x86. > > The 4 network ports are nice, and there's some GPIO to boot. > > I'm intrigued. How do you connect displays to them? I assume you'd need > one for at least the first steps of installing an OS, no?
no :) There is a serial port which is good enough for a console, which you can use until your network is working. After you've set up the first one, then we copy the image to the next. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> Nothing is as simple as it seems at first Or as hopeless as it seems in the middle Or as finished as it seems in the end.