I am installing a couple of Asus EEE Box "desktop" computers in my wife's office. These are about the size of hardback novels, and will be mounted on the back of her LCD monitor, and connected with a KVM switch.
One will have WinXP on it, and will be used for Dragon Naturally Speaking for medical dictations. It will be completely disconnected from the net, to insure patient records privacy. The other EEE will have an RHEL5 Linux clone on it, and will be used for email, websurfing, and similar activities. The EEE has a built-in Ralink RT2700E wireless card. These use the open source rt2860 driver, which isn't in very many distros yet, but the source can be downloaded from Ralink. People report good success getting this running. Someday I expect to compile and enable the driver in AP mode on the Linux box, and use that for WPA encrypted wifi in her mostly Windoze office. While I would love to run a PTP node also, I don't want to let the general public loose on the local LAN segment, and I don't have access to the firewall for the office or the building (which appears to be multiple-NATTed). Still, I figure there might be folks here interested in the new Ralink drivers and the EEE - this is a nifty little (as in tiny) low power (20W) desktop replacement. These will make nice PTP nodes in some circumstances (but overkill compared to an ALIX for a standalone headless system). I disabled the software for the radio on the WinXP EE box, and put a metal cap over the RP-SMA connector (paranoia). If somebody really, really wants to play with the MiniPCI card that is deeply buried inside the WinXP EEE, I can break open the case and extract it. Otherwise, if somebody wants to build with versions of those drivers, I can try them out, either as modules for RHEL5, or added to a modified LiveCD. Or not. I will work on the drivers myself eventually, but I've got plenty of other things to get done. I expect somebody else is likely to do it before I do; these boxes (and their mini-laptop cousins) are too sweet for the Linux community to ignore for long. Question: What is the best management software for an AP in a desktop linux box? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
