[geeks] Wireless AP

[Eric Dittman]

> [The rest is info about the magnia router/server appliance.
>  Feel free to skip to the next message]
> Oh, I did finally zap the netmax/redhat install on my magnia SG20
> and am now playing with a clean redhat 9 install on it.  It has
> a pccard slot in it for use as a wireless AP so maybe I'll play
> with that.  I'll probably try *bsd on it eventually as well, but
> I started with redhat because obviously the hardware is supported.
> I opened up the magnia to see what was inside and found an ATX
> motherboard with 2s/1p/floppy/kb/mouse/AGP/modem and a daughterboard
> with IDE/dual ethernet(1 Eepro100, 1 Realtek 8139)/pccard.
> It's probably possible to pop an AGP video card in there, but
> doing so would prevent the use of the daughtercard (and thus
> the hard drive(s) and ethernet) without fabbing some sort of
> connecting cable so I just installed onto an empty drive in another
> system and moved the hard drive and kept the original drive as
> the secondary.  So far, so good.  I'm still migrating some of
> my old config files (sendmail.cf, apache setup, etc) but it's
> most definitely alive again.

People have been using a flexcable AGP adapter to print the AGP socket
out without losing the daughterboard.

Another solution that people are tracking down is a miniPCI video card.
If that works then all you'd have to do is either remove the back plate
or cut out holes for the PS/2 connectors and the VGA adapter from the
miniPCI card.

Even better would be a built-in serial port with BIOS support, but that
isn't going to happen.
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman at dittman.net