embedded board with 3 X wireless

[John-Mark Gurney]

Rick van der Zwet wrote this message on Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 12:33 +0100:
> On 05/03/14 11:59, John Hay wrote:> We have been using AVILA, xscale arm
> based boards with 4 X MiniPCI slots
> > for a long time now. They are getting EOL and I was wondering what to
> > replace it with. Any ideas? Here is my short list of requirements:
> >
> > - Run FreeBSD
> > - Boot from itself, even if you need to add some flash. We used CF on
> AVILA.
> > - Possible to have 3 X wireless. It can be a mix of builtin and some form
> > 	of expansion. Wireless needs an antenna connector so that an
> > 	external antenna can be connected.
> > - 1 X Ethernet. More won't hurt, but is not needed.
> > - 128MB RAM or more.
> 
> Look at the ALIX boards, like http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d2.htm if you
> are OK with using USB->WiFi Dongles.

Last I looked, most USB-Wifi dongles could not handled AP point duties
very well, or if they could, they could only handle ONE SSID, which
means setting up multiple networks would be an issue...  Just make
sure you do your research before you dive...

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