Well, I do happen to have an Alix 6b2 here... my question is, what software are you running to allow you to use 3G? pfSense? If so, what miniPCI Express slot card are you using exactly? I assume this means I could throw on a HUGE antenna?! All I have to do is put in a SIM and it goes type of thing? Acts like a regular WAN port...?
More info PLEASE! -----Original Message----- From: RB [mailto:aoz....@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 9:58 AM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] Internet at the lake? Rogers Mobile InternetStick (Rocket) with pfSense? On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 01:18, Tortise <tort...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: > Check out the Linksys wrt54g3g which I use with a 3G XU870, (cheap 2nd hand) > works well for portable Internet connections for a > battery of wireless notebooks. It runs from 12V so car battery power is also > an option. Actually the best 3G router option I've found is an Alix 6b2. It has a miniPCI Express slot you can use for the cellular connection (no miniPCI solutions exist AFAIK) and an LX800 with 256MB of memory. $113 for the board, $10 for the case, and $??? for a card and continued connectivity. I also thought the wrt54g3g would be nice and have actually spend a considerable amount of time working with it and getting better support for it into OpenWRT. For the price, the hardware is anemic compared to the 6b2. Their implementation of a TI cardbus on the mipsel architecture is buggy to say the least, and added to the rather awful "open source" releases they made it's been impossible to get a 2.6-series linux kernel running on it. It is one of the two remaining piles of Broadcom fail that force *WRT to continue to support 2.4-series kernels. Linksys' releases are generically okay, but largely just pay lip service to the open source concept. Once you start digging into model-specific features (like the G3G cardbus or the AG310's SIP interface) you run into a brick wall of binary lumps that "happened" to get shipped with the release instead of the source you were looking for. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
