It seems to me that the guys at Atmark in Sapporo already did this quite a while back (but their Armadillo-J is priced for the Japanese market). They do have a fairly extensive "HOW-TO" section (in Japanese) and several downloads available from their site, though.
Soekris have a $15 dollar drive adapter kit which allows you to mount a laptop drive in the standard case (no soldering involved). I have two of the 4801s, one using a flash card and the other using a 15GB laptop drive.
The USB port also works reliably with plug-in keyholder style flash and OpenBSD runs beautifully on these boxes. My other recommendation for the guy who was looking for a web server... try thttpd. It's pretty much a custom fit for a small web server running out of flash on a machine like this.
Great input. Thanks, Kevin42 (would you believe that up until today I
thought that multipath was a psychopath with a twin brother?!?).
Seriously though, apart from being a cheapskate, one of the things
which has kept me from buying (or building) a "real" antenna is the
problem of interfacing it to the wireless card. Does anyone know where
to pick up reasonably priced pigtails (on the web) for Buffalo, Corega
or GeoWave cards? They don't seem to be very easy to come by here in
Japan and the ones I've found on the web so far were twice the price of
a 7dbi antenna from someone like SuperPass.
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It seems to me that the guys at Atmark in Sapporo already did this quite a while back (but their Armadillo-J is priced for the Japanese market).
They do have a fairly extensive "HOW-TO" section (in Japanese) and several downloads available from their site, though.
Soekris have a $15 dollar drive adapter kit which allows you to mount a laptop drive in the standard case (no soldering involved). I have two of the 4801s, one using a flash card and the other using a 15GB laptop drive.
The USB port also works reliably with plug-in keyholder style flash and OpenBSD runs beautifully on these boxes. My other recommendation for the guy who was looking for a web server... try thttpd.
It's pretty much a custom fit for a small web server running out of flash on a machine like this.
Great input. Thanks, Kevin42 (would you believe that up until today I
thought that multipath was a psychopath with a twin brother?!?).
Seriously though, apart from being a cheapskate, one of the things
which has kept me from buying (or building) a "real" antenna is the
problem of interfacing it to the wireless card. Does anyone know where
to pick up reasonably priced pigtails (on the web) for Buffalo, Corega
or GeoWave cards? They don't seem to be very easy to come by here in
Japan and the ones I've found on the web so far were twice the price of
a 7dbi antenna from someone like SuperPass.
Is an .exe file. What the heck
are we meant to do with that?!?