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

[Christoph Lechner <cl0023@xxxxxxx>]

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Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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.
true, but I'm a hobbyist. So I dislike the bare-metal approach.
Instead I want it simple, no multi-layer PCBs etc.

I'm not going to sell these, so maybe a series of 5+ for personal use
but not more.

- - cl
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