Looking for a hardware recommendation.

[Dave Burgess <info%voipnebraska.com@localhost>]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a super-small, super-inexpensive board that I can turn 
into various projects.  The specs are pretty simple:

1)  I need it to support ethernet - a reasonable number of voltage 
inputs (like no more than a couple).
2)  I need it to have a bi-directional parallel port; not necessarily a 
printer (but that would work) but something that would be able to be 
interfaced to opto-isolators.  A minimum of 4 input/output bit devices 
would be cool.
3)  I need it to have a USB port.
4)  I need it to be able to DHCP/netboot from the wired network.
5)  It needs to be fan-less.
6)  The price-point for the board itself needs to be in the $30 or less 
range (qty, say, 100).

The primary application is going to be a XMPP/Jabber interface and I 
need it to be able to run some version of NetBSD.  A secondary 
application will be a SIP "phone-like" device.

Don't need serial/wireless/video/SATA/IDE/SCSI/RAID/etc.  The less stuff 
the better.

The unit needs to be able to fit in a 'standard' desktop-router-sized case.

Any suggestions?

Dave


On 4/24/2012 6:23 AM, Andrius V wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently upgraded to Asrock X79 Extreme4-M platform. NetBSD (6
> BETA) booted surprisingly well, however, the biggest problem was
> unsupported NIC. Asrock uses Broadcom BCM57781 network chip in their
> motherboards recently. NetBSD configures bge0 device but there is the
> line that ASIC is unknown (bge0: ASIC unknown BCM57765 (0x57785100))
> and network just doesn't work (DHCP doesn't assign any IP address,
> manual configuration doesn't help too). I checked that FreeBSD already
> supports device as BCM57765 B0. Would it be difficult to add support
> for it? Should I file bug report for this? Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Andrius V


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