David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 09:55:00AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > There are quite a number of these gadgets on eBay right now, they would > > probably make a cheap entry-level platform for powerpc work: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2059912083 > > Be careful buying one. I got one a year ago, and even though the ad said > "Ethernet" it was "Token ring Ethernet". :-( > > So I would be very careful to check the model number at the IBM site > before buying.
The A53 has real ethernet. It doesn't come with an L2 cache (512K, optional add-on), and can't support a hard disk, so you will be booting diskless for the forseeable future. I'm also not sure if the BIOS flashed on board is OpenBoot compliant (in fact, I was pretty sure it was not, the last time I looked at it). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
