Ahh ... ok ... the diskonchip units that I have seen just look like a  
black plastic lump that plugs right into
an ide channel.

You may also want to hit ebay and look for a nokia ip120 before you  
invest in a soekris box.

I won an ip120 for $56US

they are functionally equivalent to a soekris 4801

Pentium class 266 cpu
128mb memory
3 ethernet ports

and they come with a 10 gig hard drive

In mine I replaced the hard drive with one of these

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? 
ViewItem&item=2791353055&category=51076

The one I am using is only 64 megabytes though and I got it for $5US

David Rodgers




On Mar 8, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Phill R Kenoyer wrote:

> But this diskonchip is soldered onto a mini-computer.  This thing  
> doesn't even have a serial port on it.  I guess I'll just have to  
> replace it with a Soekris dual radio setup and scrap this Net Nimble  
> system.  I don't see being able to do anything without having some  
> other equipment to plug into it.
>
> On Mar 8, 2004, at 6:31 AM, David Rodgers wrote:
>
>> Yes ... it is functionally no different than setting it up with a cf
>> card and an ide adapter. Just plug the diskonchip into a additional  
>> ide
>> interface then boot the machine and use dd to copy the image to the
>> /dev/hde(or whatever ide channel you chose)
>>
>> The diskonchip devices are pretty cool and really cheap on ebay these
>> days. The first time I saw them was at a trade show. MicroTiK
>> was selling their router software flashed onto them.
>> http://www.microtik.com/
>>
>> David Rodgers
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 00:23, Phill R Kenoyer wrote:
>>> Has anyone installed m0n0wall on a system that uses Disk-on-chip?
>>>
>>> I have two Net Nimble WRIP systems that I would love to replace the
>>> software with m0n0wall.  Net Nimble's software is very limited and  
>>> uses
>>> old drivers and such.  It's very proprietary.  The biggest problem I
>>> have, it comes with no documentation at all.  I just have to guess at
>>> what I'm doing.  If I could rewind, I would not have bought them.
>>>
>>> If anyone has any information on how to get m0n0wall onto a
>>> Disk-on-chip type system, please email me.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> System info:
>>> 	Cyrix 486DX4
>>> 	16MB RAM
>>> 	16MB? HDD (15872 blocks)