Can you get a PCMCIA->USB adaptor?
	If so, maybe something from thinknic.com using USB for the second
	ethernet and wavelan.

		David/absolute		abs@purplei.com

On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Martin Husemann wrote:

> I'm looking for a device with the following properties:
>
>   - absolutely silent
>   - as small as possible
>   - two 10baseT (optional 100baseT) connectors
>   - one PCMCIA (or cardbus) slot (needs to take a wavelan card)
>   - some small amount of persistent storage (8 or 16 MB will do)
>   - runs NetBSD
>
> Since Sharks are not buyable any more and miss the second ethernet connector,
> the best I could come up with is an old 486 machine, disk ripped out, booting
> from floppy, mounting root on CD, maybe with special power supply (to make it
> silent enough), two ethernet cards and two ISA<->PCMCIA adaptors one for the
> wavelan card, the other for some flash/solid state disk. (I have most of this
> lying around, so this would be a quite cheap solution, but probably not
> silent enough - and it's big)
>
> This box needs to be placed in my living room (don't ask), connect to a DSL
> modem with one of the ethernet cards and be a router, NAT, ipf box; maybe
> running dhcpd for the internal ethernet and additionally some small, custom
> daemons. If it can take an ISDN card it will become an answering machine too.
>
> Ideal think would be something like an Apple AirStation with second ethernet
> and running NetBSD ;-)
>
>
> Any hints?
>
>
> Martin
>