Hi Will, I just commissioned three cellular routers using Alix 6F2 boards (similar in some ways to Soekris, but slower and older), using Novatel EU850D 3G/UMTS cellular cards, with the free firewall OS pfSense 2.0RC3 running on CompactFlash cards. It all seems to work very nicely.
The good thing about the EU850D card is that the SIM card slot is built-in, so you don't need a mainboard with a SIM card slot in it. So the NET6501 + EU850D ought to make a nice cellular router for you, but I haven't tested that combination myself. (pfSense ought to work too, as it's based on FreeBSD.) Of course, if you live outside Europe, you might need a variation of the EU850D to suit your country's cellular standards. Hope this helps - Martin On 10 Sep 2011, at 00:56, William Sloan wrote: > Soekris list -- > > > I am interested in the 6501 for use as a cellular router. I know there > isn't a sim card interface in the existing 6501 design. Is it possible to > use the FPGA to implement the sim card interface? Are the sim card pins on > the mini PCI-E routed to the FPGA or some other place where it is possible to > interface with them? > > Thanks, > Will > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
