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Broadcom support would fix this problem, as you can find Broadcom chip minipci nics all over eBay for a few bucks. Let's all collectively groan at Broadcom's insistence upon shunning the open source community. Boo! Anyways, I've also found that Intel 2200/2300 NIC's are plentiful in the 20-30 after shipping range. It's possible that a source of them could be found for larger and cheaper quantity purchases. It looks that way as a lot of the vendors have multiple auctions for the same item at the same time, i.e. 25 dell truemobile somethings, which are actually intel 2200's... etc. Lee Sharp wrote: > Alex M wrote: > >> 1) As user do you want cheaper hardware and mono as Access Point >> supplement >> 2) As Developer do you wanna do it (I think we can make financial >> rewards) >> 3) As Reseller or Distributor do you think we need it and are you >> willing to >> buy quantity to make the hardware price cheaper? > > Actually had to count... Right now I have 58 m0n0wall firewalls out > that I am supporting. Because of the high cost for very small systems, > they are almost all generic PC hardware. (No WiFi) If I could get > dependable small hardware at around $100, (WiFi could add to this cost) > I would jump on it. As the WiFi support is improving, it makes more > sence to have it in the same box. The 1.2 series WiFi was not worth the > trouble. > > Lee > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > |