Hi Matt,
Yes, I have the same thought. Over the weekend, I have tried out OE and
here is my initial findings:
- Multi-arch build is easy, as it builds from scratch, even the
cross-compile toolchain.
- It has to build *everything* and requires a lot of CPU and diskspace
in my build machine (remember I used uml for all voyage development?).
I am now thinking of buying a new build machine - may be a older version
Mac Mini.
- The wireless part (hostapd, madwifi-modules) seems to be un-maintained
- needs few more hacks to get it build as there are inter-dependency at
build time (same problem in debian as well, but someone had solved it).
- customized kernel-build needs more investigation - seems not straight
forward.
My investigation does not necessary mean Voyage will switch to OE
platform. It will only be a new thing. Voyage will still be offered as
free software as it is today and ties to Debian. It is not going to change.
Regards,
Punky
Matthias Lemke wrote:
then should "open embedded" be the first choice...
regards
Kim-man 'Punky' TSE schrieb:
Hi Solomon,
I seems impossible to get a lower price x86-based embedded board.
Other non-x86 embedded boards in MIP, ARM or XScale architecture does
not have enough flash size for storing the disk-space hungry Debian.
With squashfs+unionfs we've seen in Live CD, we can't have a distro
lower than ~30MB. Even with squashfs with lzma support, it also can't
lower than 25MB.
If Voyage is going to support non-x86 borads, it will not be Debian
anymore, and it can't be called Voyage either, as Voyage Linux implies
Debian-based distro.
Regards,
Punky
Solomon Asare wrote:
Hi,
I use lots of mikrotik products myself and they are
excellent if all you need is a wireless/router without
any special/unique customisation that you may want to
roll out yourself. And the 112 is competitively
priced.
A licence upgrade, if required, after expiration of
the one your 112 board came with, will set you back by
about $40 at a latter date.
Moreover, my competitors are also using Mikrotik or
cheaper alternatives and I was wondering if, with a
cheaper mboard + flash + memory and voyage, I can put
together a radio more competitively. I am almost at
the point where I may have to give the radio out and
make money on monthly bandwidth charges which are not
much.
Regards,
solomon.
--- Andrew Niemantsverdriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Check out the routerboard 112. It has board memory
and flash for $99. My
research and development budget ran out for this
quater otherwise I would
get one and see what can be done with it. Anyway
here is a link:
http://www.routerboard.com/prices.html
Has anybody used these? Do they work? The cheapest I
can build a wrap is
$127 not including a radio or enclosure. And that is
in quantiy 10.
I will be interested to hear of others if there are
any.
Hi All,
to make voyage more attractive as a
Wireless/Router OS
I guess we need a cheaper embedded motherboard.
Please, does anyone have any suggestions apart
from
WRAP?
Is it possible to get say a ($60 - $80) board +
memory
+ flash that can support a client? Pentium 200
should
be more than adequate. Any links?
Best Regards,
solomon.
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