Re: [LHA-misc] I've got an Audrey, now what do I do with it? ;-)

[John K. <jk...@pr...>]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Neil Cherry wrote:

> I just received my Audrey (won on ebay), I'm working on getting a Netgear
> EA-101 USB ethernet adapter (I know I've got to hack it to get it to work)
> and I'll also be ordering a CF card. Anyone know anything about the CF
> cards?

How much was the winning bid?  (I may be looking for another 2-4 myself).

Last time I checked, the rumor was that you need to write the CF from an
Audrey (or possibly a QNX6.0 i386 machine) at least once to 'format' it
correctly.

I have successfully converted both a Netgear (EA-101c) and Xircom (PNET10)
for use with my Audreys.

IMHO, by far, the easiest way to hack Audrey is to set up your own Marimba
server and your own DNS server.  OTOH, it is fairly involved so this
option is only for the technically inclined or highly motivated newbies.

If you need help with either, drop me a line, I'd be happy to help.

Also IMO, the CF's don't do much for it.  Last I checked they could only
be used to flash the unit and not as a mountable filesystem.  

In addition, Samba and fs-cifs don't get along too well, but fs-nfs works
fine.

> And of course it will be used as a front end to the HA system.

Of course :)  I don't know about your expectations, but the units are much
bigger than I had expected (wall embedding plans had to be abandoned).

Audrey's browser is servicible, but not completely up to date (no DIV
support).