much to my surprise i was able to get OPENSTEP up and running on this small embedded ALIX mainboard from pcengines (costs about 150 USD including the case) ->
http://pcengines.ch/alix1d.htmthe speed is perfectly usable, although there's NO networking, NO sound and NO Bus Master DMA on the EIDE bus. see it in action here ->
http://youtu.be/xxJaXObnFTwregards,
michael
This looks very nice. What graphics adapter are you using?
the on-board graphics (built-in AMD Geode LX800) works with the VESA VBE driver. it runs at 1024x768, higher resolutions are possible.
Quote from: "mikeboss"much to my surprise i was able to get OPENSTEP up and running on this small embedded ALIX mainboard from pcengines (costs about 150 USD including the case)
Oh, cool! I bought one of these with the intent of doing just this. Glad to know it works!
Do you have any console/log information on the hardware that isn't supported by NS?
For the network, it seems to use VIA VT6105M chip (rhine III).
For audio, it seems to be the AMD CS5535 chip.
nice: I bought me a DEC DE500-BA off of e*ay (the only NIC i could find that's supposed to run with 3.3V PCI and also has OPENSTEP drivers). IT WORKS! in fact, I am writing this post from my ALIX/OPENSTEP box using OmniWeb 3.0 :-D
regards,
michael
Quote from: "mikeboss"much to my surprise i was able to get OPENSTEP up and running on this small embedded ALIX mainboard from pcengines (costs about 150 USD including the case)
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regards,
michael
Dear,
I know, thread is a bit outdated... but I would like to install OpenStep on a very similar ThinClient (Wyse SX0, AMD Geode, IDE). Maybe for use as a little webserver.
How do you install the system on it?
I was able to install Openstep 4.2 on a older ThinkPad 390 with floppies and CD, but this TP has no network to "export". So I've no idea howto make a boot-CD and or a "image" from a running system like one of a forum member does.
sorry for my english. Th
antonio
I used a floppy drive connected to one of the USB ports to boot the installer.
Does it really work over USB? But I suppose only the installdisk; driverdisk should not work without usb-support, or do I miss some info about install procedure? :shock:
Hm, what about starting over a usb-stick. Should this work, too?
maybe I try to "make" a 2,88 floppy image over vmware, first.
greats
antonio
I guess the system BIOS is emulating a legacy FDD and thus, the installer will work like it would on an old PC with a real floppy controller. that's why the floppy containing drivers will work, too.
I doubt that you'll be able to boot from a USB stick.
to my best knowledge, there where no ED (2.88 MB) disks.
Hi,
I've to take a look on BIOS of my Wyse SX0; I suppose there is FDD emulation, too.
I meant a 2,88 image to build a start CD, not a real disk. My problem ist that my openstep running laptop do not has any network or other possibilities to "extract" a image. I tried VirtualBox, but my Thinkpad has no PS2-mouse and a usb-mouse won't work with openstep... (or there is somewhere a misconfiguration)
Hi,
so installing over USB-FDD worked for me, too. OPENSTEP 4.2 is running on a FUTRO S400.
Next prob: I've a DEC21140 10/100 ethernet-PCI-card. Normally it should work with OPENSTEP drivers, but I can't see it on network. IP-address, router, gateway were installed over SimpleNetworkStarter (as root). Same procedure with HostManager (local)...
Ethernetcard was working fine with BeOS, so it has no defect... Driver used is DEC21140 100MB/s (4.02).
What I'm doing wrong? :?:
You might need to alter the PCI ID in Configure.app.
This is an interesting read (
http://www.reely.com/darren/xStep/internal_cards.html), and this post (
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1646)addresses it for a video card, but it's the same for any PCI card.
Hej,
I suppose there ia another problem with this DEC cards, I read something about similar issues in another older thread in a bsd-forum.
I bought a 3COM card, it works now.
But I've difilculties in set up network; there are not the TCP/IP entries, but the other parts. I tried to setup this client in a "mixed network", like NEXTSTEP Network and System Administration Manual, I installed nsca-httpd, but I can't reach the pages from outside (another PC)... :?
Ping works...