[FADCA] Quick switch solution?

[Jerald A. DeLong]

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From: fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:fadca-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:36 PM
To: Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Quick switch solution?



>Jerry,
>That looks like a real good solution, big thing is that a lot of
>people want to add
>all sort of stuff to the device in question, and as a step up, this
>sort of falls in the
>next slot, these things are dropping in price such that you can pick them
up now
>for less that $200. It is a lot easier to walk into [bigboxstore]
>(fill in the name) and
>purchase one of these things now than it is to find some of the
>routers that we use
>to load the new firmware into. And they have USB which will support
>the low speed
>packet access. I would like to take the time to see if I could get
>FPAC on a router,
>and use the serial port for the low speed packet side of it, the WiFi
>for the IP access
>and the wired ports for other links. But at the same time I know I can
>take one of
>these netbooks and put it all on there and have it running quite rapidly.

>Well better get back to making sure my inspection machines are working...


Chuck,

I am already working on getting Fpac working with embedded software
(OpenWRT) that will
work on a router and have made some progress. If you're interested email me
direct and
I would be glad to share my information and progress with you.

I am testing my OpenWRT packages that I built on a x86 platform so one of
these little notebooks
would be great for building images and testing.


Jerry