For our Tokyo apartment border device, I hacked together a Soekris 5501 with a large SATA hard drive, a Metrix CM9 802.11abg miniPCI card, and FreeBSD 8-CURRENT. All worked well except the wireless was significantly damaged due to very very frequent errors causing TCP back-off. It was pretty useless. I spent a number of hours chasing it down, some with the help of the FreeBSD Net mailing list and Sam Leffer in particular.
I attempted to better shield it. A full description with pretty pictures is at <http://rip.psg.com/~randy/5501-abg.html>. Bottom line so far: hokey household supply shielding has not fixed the problem. I suspect the hard drive mounting over the miniPCI may be the problem, but really do not know. Help/clue still needed. randy _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
