I've just been playing with a "Pegasus II" type USB -> ethernet dongle on the E3. It's quite neat having an internet connection on it! I've been browsing the web using the "links" browser :)
Is this the way others are networking their E3s? Or are people just accessing them via the serial line. It's would certainly be handy to NFS mount the root directory...!
Well, I'm using a USB Bluetooth dongle and it works quite nice...
2006/5/24, David J. Singer doc@deadvirgins.org.uk:
I've just been playing with a "Pegasus II" type USB -> ethernet dongle on the E3. It's quite neat having an internet connection on it! I've been browsing the web using the "links" browser :)
Is this the way others are networking their E3s? Or are people just accessing them via the serial line. It's would certainly be handy to NFS mount the root directory...!
-- David J. Singer doc@deadvirgins.org.uk "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana"
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David J. Singer wrote:
I've just been playing with a "Pegasus II" type USB -> ethernet dongle on the E3. It's quite neat having an internet connection on it! I've been browsing the web using the "links" browser :)
Yeah, I had w3m going under Debian with an RTL8150-based ethernet widget. It worked surprisingly well. I also have a couple of wireless ethernet widgets, but they require fiddly firmware to make work and I haven't tried.
...I'm actually thinking that one of the best uses for my E3 is as a terminal for my house server, which is an ARM-based NSLU2 running Debian. Both devices have non-level-shifted serial ports, although I might need an inverter. Given that I have two low-end ARM devices, I'm also wondering whether networking them together with OpenMosix might actually achieve anything, other than hack value...
David J. Singer wrote:
Is this the way others are networking their E3s? Or are people just accessing them via the serial line. It's would certainly be handy to NFS mount the root directory...!
I use a Linksys USB100TX with the pegasus driver. I have also used a Linksys WUSB11 v2.8 WiFi adapter with the berlios at76c503 driver and that works fine. I mount my root filesystem over nfs, which works as long as you remember to mount using tcp rather than udp (for some reason, udp seems to hang on larger transfers)
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