On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: > I wanted to be able to do wifi aircaps at scale, So I figured I'd > load up a nuc with a bunch of usb wifi sticks. I got a w(hole bunch of > those - the horrors! the horrors that the drivers revealed... > > then I ran across the compute stick phenomenon, > > Holy cow, 59 dollars for an entire computer - with wifi on board. >
> http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Compute-STCK1A8LFC-Z3735F-Ubuntu/dp/B00W7KAABK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460990238&sr=8-1&keywords=ubuntu+compute+stick So I got one of these older models to play with. It came in a nice box. It was marvelous to plug the male hdmi port directly into my stereo A/V amp and have it automatically install and configure ubuntu 14.04LTS (kernel 3.16). It took a while to install itself, but after about 15 minutes of updating I had got it up and running. It's pretty neat as a desktop, not particularly fast, but once an app is loaded it's "good enough" for day to day work. I added a 19 dollar 32Gbyte SDHC card to use as my "home" directory, as there is only about 5GB usable on the stick itself (71% of the internal emmc used by default), bringing my total cost to under a hundred bucks. I played with it a bit... Sound doesn't work, which eliminates my musical use case (at least for now). I thought maybe this would be a good option for a midi controller, also, might try that. The wifi does ~10Mbits in my admittedly crowded spectrum. The linux log fills with all sorts of RTL871X debug messages, and the thing is about as bloated as the ath9k can be - 344-500ms delay on the up in netperf. The wifi is a realtek chip, ironically, I guess, intel couldn't fit one of their wifi cards into it: rtl8723bs And my original use case of having a compute stick I could use to sample the air with? So far with various tools I haven't been able to get a monitor interface to work. :( Overall it's kind of nice to have an intel architecture box that costs about the same as a tricked out raspberry pi. I'd like it if I could power it via a conventional usb port and network it that way, but haven't tried that yet. I am tempted to pick up one of the windows versions to play with. > -- > Dave Täht > Save BoatyMcBoatFace from extinction by humorless science ministers! > https://twitter.com/hashtag/boatymcboatface -- Dave Täht Let's go make home routers and wifi faster! With better software! http://blog.cerowrt.org _______________________________________________ Cerowrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel
