Hi Gregor, Thanks for the quick reply. Best of luck with your time in the army. If you have any docs on your progress with supporting the ALIX hardware I'd love to take a look and see what's involved in finishing it.
The Compex WP188 uses the IXP425 (clocked at 533Mhz), has 128MB RAM (possibly 256MB is some configurations) and 16MB flash (or 32MB). It only has two 10/100 Ethernet ports, but does have 4x Mini-PCI ports and an SD slot. They also seem to promote usage of OpenWRT on their devices, which should suggest that supporting these is within the realms of possibility. Full details over http://www.compex.com.sg/home/OEM/product_ap.htm (The NP18A is also interesting). If anyone has any other suggestions for suitably fast hardware I'd love to hear them. Broadly speaking, I'm looking for something that can handle 100Mbps comfortably to the device's CPU itself (not across switch-ports or a bridge). I would have thought that the 500Mhz+ chips might do this, but I have some testing of my own to do on this :) Also, I just noticed a typo in my previous post - I meant to say that I would be happy to donate a unit if it'd help in creating support for it. Thanks, Sam Gregor Radtke wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 11.05.2008, 15:25 +0100 schrieb Sam Crawford: >> Hello again, >> >> I'm a big fan of the FreeWRT distribution and am using it in earnest >> already. However, I'm keen to look at newer and more powerful hardware now. >> >> Is there a procedure for requesting new hardware support? I'm currently >> thinking either the Compex WP188 / NP18A, or the PC Engines ALIX 2Cx >> range. The Compex units use the IXP425 533Mhz chip whereas the ALIX >> boards using the AMD Geode LX800 chip. >> >> I'd be more than happy to done a unit to the development cause if it'd help. > > Hallo Sam, > > porting FreeWRT to the PC Engines ALIX-platform is "work in progress", > but stalled atm. Hopefully one day i have the time to finish it, as i am > about to finish my apprenticeship, and then have to serve my time at the > german "army". I am absolutely not looking forward to it ;). Already got > an ALIX.1B here for porting, but if someone else wants to help that > might be a good thing. ALIX.1x and ALIX.2x don't differ that much, > except for BIOS of course. > > What's this Compex WP188 board about? I'll ask google about it, but if > you already have got some comprehensive information.. ;) > > Best regards, > > Gregor > _______________________________________________ freewrt-users mailing list freewrt-users@freewrt.org https://www.freewrt.org/lists/listinfo/freewrt-users
