On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:10:03PM -0700, Oisin Feeley wrote: Hi Oisin and Joe, > > I bought an open brick the day after Bao C. Ha gave > > his presentation at > > SOCALWUG a couple years back, and as of this date I > > have not ever had it > > running correctly (he confirmed its defectiveness at > > the last LALUG > > meeting). So, I would hardly consider the open > > brick as the functional > > equivalent of the WRT54G. > > An interesting datapoint that I shall bear in mind. > Exactly what has been defective?
Joe has had problems booting the Brick up from a compact flash. At the last Lula meeting, I tried to boot his Brick up from a compact flash designed for a Soekris, and it did not come up. There could be many reasons why it did not do it at that time. And I was expecting Joe to stop by my office the following week to see if we could resolve the booting issue. It could be that the unit Joe has is defective. But, we have had a Brick running non-stop at Ben Wade's house since last May providing accesses to his community at Harvard Heights. There are also other companies successfully using the OpenBricks as an access point/ firewall/router. Anyway, the original OpenBrick is being discontinued. So it is a moot point at this time. > A resonable perspective. I'm worried about the fact > that the WRT54G has a fixed amount of RAM (soldered to > the board, not socketed) and that the 2.6 kernels plus > racoon user-space tools are going to take up an > increasing amount of space. I like the idea of being > able to put an IBM microdrive in to accomodate future > bloat and it seems that the Soekris _or_ OpenBrick > stuff might offer that option more easily. I am put > off by the price though. (As it stands it's over > double the price). I would not recommend the Brick or the Soekris if you cannot justify the price differences. They are the same reasons why you would want to use a Cisco Aironet 1200/1400 instead of the Aironet 350. Bao -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38
