[rescue] Instant Internet boxes

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Eric Webb wrote:

> Hmm, Cx486DX2 66Mhz (what does the Cx mean?), 4MB on this one.

Cyrix.

> Hooked up an IDE drive, detected in the AMI BIOS and got it to boot.
> Apparently drive A:  is the ROM-DOS they're booting from which makes
> me wonder if the floppy header can be made to work....

You might have to replace the BIOS or something funky like that.

Peace...  Sridhar

> This thing has an assload of jumpers.... anyone happen to know anything about
> 'em?  I'm surprised that the netsearches have turned up so empty...
>
> -E.
>
>
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote:
> > I just rescued (I think, hopefully it's useful or it'll be dumped again) an
> > Instant Internet box from Bay Networks.  I've seen these around a couple
> > places and heard that they were nice for their time.  Looks like a 486 with
> > 4x72pin SIMM slots, dual ISA riser and apparently floppy/IDE ports (though
> > these didn't use them).  Software in ROM or Flash.
> >
> > Questions:
> > 1.  Anyone have experience with these?
> > 2.  What level 486 is this?  Is it upgradeable?
> > 3.  Is this thing capable/worth running Linux on?
> > 4.  What form factor is this motherboard?  Is this NLX or something
> > similar, such that I can reuse the case with a newer x86 mobo?
> > 5.  Any known hardware hacking howto / reference pages?
> >
> > I know where I may be able to get one or two more of these... are there
> > different models to look for that may have beefier hardware?
> >
> > Eric
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