Hi Ramon, if you will need an ARM9 WRAP board to test with, I promise to get you one once they are released.
Best Regards, solomon. --- Ramon Navarro Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys ! > > I've been folowing the project and using it on some > wireless comunities > ( we created adesign merging OSPF trunk wifi > networks with a OLSR/BATMAN > mesh network over it using openvpn ). I've been > looking at the future of > wraps on pcengines and I saw that they are going to > create a cheap > product using ARM9. As it's the same hardware on > nokia N800 I can help > on porting voyage to this architecture ( we have a > ARMEL 512Mbyte > 600Gbyte server to compile with debian-armel and > maemo-armel ). > > Ramon > > > En/na Solomon Asare ha escrit: > > Hi All, > > it looks like there are some good news after all. > > According to: http://www.pcengines.ch/wrapeol.htm > > cheaper alternatives are on the way. Grapevine > > suggests $60. > > > > I hope it will not be too long. > > > > Regards, > > solo. > > > > --- Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > >> 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]> > >> > === message truncated === _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
