Re: gEDA-user: new ethernet chip...

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 25, 2009, at 5:49 PM, Christoph Lechner wrote:
>> Digikey has the new KSZ8851 series... multiple bus options
>> (spi/8/16/32), built-in PHY, only 85 milliamps, under $10:
>>
>> http://www.micrel.com/page.do?page=product-info/embedded_control.jsp
>>
>> Anyone know anything about these chips?  They look like I should be
>> switching to them :-)
>>
> Although it's OT: When I want something with network connection, I  
> don't
> build a circuit on my own. Instead I use hacked up WLAN routers,
> upgraded using OpenWRT. That's an open source firmware replacement  
> that
> you can run on many EUR 30 WLAN routers.
> Given the amount of time you need for the from-scratch stuff, it's
> really cheaper. And it's Linux, so code development is no problem  
> at all.

   Eh.  One can't easily start selling a bunch of them, or releasing  
the design as open hardware, if they're made from hacked-up consumer  
gear.  And purpose-built hardware certainly doesn't preclude the use  
of Linux.

   If you're building one or two of something, sure, but what's the  
point of that other than recreation and mental masturbation?

            -Dave
>

-- 
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL





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