Most of them have ethernet or wifi built in. There are a number of USB based wifi and ethernet adaptors that work quite well with Linux.
Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. On Jul 5, 2011 12:30 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I forgot about the plug devices. That is a better idea. What about network interface. USB is fast enough but do we have usb to eth? > > > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 12:03:08AM -0600, Gustin Johnson wrote: >> There are already plug devices running Linux. Right now Arm seems to be >> architecture of choice, coupled with Debian the underlying platform is >> already here. What is needed is the client facing software. >> >> Sent from my Android device. Please excuse my brevity. >> On Jul 4, 2011 10:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Yes it would work like that. They likely don't need much power but they >> will need to be able to output a "POTS" service if they are to be used in >> analogue homes. I've not looked into the digital requirments but that would >> make a great deal of sense to support. Companies like Dilogic can supply the >> telephony interface cards. >> > >> > The OS could be Linux or likely a flavour of *BSD. I would prefer OpenBSD >> but that is only because I happen to use it on my servers and firewalls. >> > >> > Basically it needs an RJ45. Thus a little netbook would do the job if we >> can find USB telephone interface units and we can pick up the netbooks for >> like $169. >> > >> > With a wifi interface it could even support a smart phone! In fact a smart >> phone could do the job but IMHO they are pretty overpriced. >> > >> > If people want cheaper then any old PC from the PII days on will work. >> These machines have PCI bus interfaces which Dialogic makes cards for. THing >> is old computers like that actually are more expensive because they draw a >> lot more power than a netbook. With a netbook I would expect we would be >> throtling to the slowest cpu speed and I do not think we would need other >> than a solid state drive on it. >> > >> > Now if we get something like an ALIX which has multiple NICs then I >> suspect the box could provide firewall + telephone services. >> > >> > Software would probably be Asterisk. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 09:47:20PM -0600, Joe S wrote: >> >> These articles look interesting. I'm not that knowledgeable on >> >> how the Internet works. Would the boxes contain servers that hook >> >> up to each other like a private a private network? >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >> On Monday 04 July 2011 19:50:11 Mel Walters wrote: >> >> > Sounds good. The more people (and ideas) involved the better. >> >> > I have some lectures and talks related to all this that I hope >> >> > will encourage us to even spearhead something good. >> >> > >> >> > Mel >> >> > >> >> > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 01:05 -0600, [email protected] wrote: >> >> > > I would like to work with you on this. >> >> > > >> >> > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 12:02:49AM -0600, Mel Walters wrote: >> >> > > > Proposed solution to freedom on the net: >> >> > > > >> >> > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html?_r >> >> > > > =2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1297865022-0JDUtCoG16GYaoGy9MDMyg >> >> > > > >> >> > > > http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/16/freedom-box-needs-a >> >> > > > -good-user-interface/ >> >> > > > >> >> > > > I am attempting to put together some strong proposals that >> >> > > > have been brought to light. Combined with wifi mesh this >> >> > > > could wnd up lending to a more scalable and robust >> >> > > > network too. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Mel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> clug-talk mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > clug-talk mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> > **Please remove these lines when replying > >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
