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Musenki's Linux-Based AP Ships To Beta Customers
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Austin, TX based Musenki ('musenki' means 'small wireless gadget' in Japanese) is poised to ship beta units of its first product -- the M-1 wireless access point that uses Linux. Pretty cool device that has open architecture and can be modified to accomodate growing 802.11 standards. Says they could have not have done it without open source community."
Spelt Musenski in title, rather than Musenki (I thought fo a arf a mo an old bud named Musenski (or was it Musinski, Bull Moose anyway) was in the biz.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Does anyone know if they've included any extra security packages?
Seeing how WEP is basically an open door, I see no reason not to have ipchains installed and operational by default.
The software is there. Anyone know if they are using it? If not, it seems a bit a complete open door to these guys...
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
I dont know about you, but I think I am going to try to get my hands on one of there, (ie, but one).
I am going to watch this closely becuase I think here we have a real test to see what happens when linux has a product that people can buy and cant simply download.
If they do well, I think we should use them as a example of how things really are going to go for linux.
Thanks for reading
Sigs are dangerous coy things
The features seem good, but...
"Quantity one pricing for the M-1 (including 802.11b NIC, antenna, power supply, etc) will be $300, and the M-3 (similarly configured) will be $500, with quantity discounts available.
Beta units of the M-1 will go out on Monday, April 15th. Beta shipments of the M-3 are planned by the beginning of May. General availability of both should be by the end of June."
$300 or $500. And people complain Apple Airport Base Stations are overpriced at $300 MSRP, $270 or less (for quantity one pricing). The Musenski seems to be very cool, but with Linksys 802.11b access points at, what, $170 being touted as reasons to not but Airports, I can only hope they aren't priced higher than the market will bear.
mu = not
sen = wire
ki = device
I don't see 'small' in there..
It's not taco, look at the uid.
I choose not to view linux stories because as a software developer, i see open source as a threat to my well being. They are giving away for free what I am supposed to be getting paid to write, its a scary business model from my perspective.
The article says they contributed a driver for the 8245 chipset.
Except that this isn't the right translation. I breakdown like this:
musen: without lines or wireless/radio
ki: generic for any type of tool (generally mechanical or electronic)
you get musenki or wireless device. I don't know why they said small
since it isn't even implied.
--wyn
Musenski must have better PR people, but don't forget about Soekris. They make network computers that include two slots for radios and one slot for hardware encryption, running *BSD or Linux.
Cool. This device uses Busybox and uClibc. These are very very cool projects for developing embedded systems. Of course I'm biased (busybox and uClibc maintainer hat on), but I had no idea these folks were building an AP with them. Looks pretty nice. I hope they send me a free one. ;-)
-Erik -- --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
MiniPCI is what's used to put the 'built in' ethernet and modems in most recent laptops... I think mostly so the manuf. only has to make one laptop-mainboard and then can slot in a modem or enet or wireless or whatever. In any case, MiniPCI wireless cards are generally as cheap or cheaper than PCMCIA/Cardbus cards...
--Z