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New Message It's Nice to See It Still Exists (modified 0 times) WarpKat

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Hi everyone.
I found this board quite by accident and was rather surprised that it even existed, although I'm sure SOMEONE would have sparked some interest in the WebPal device.
I used to work in the engineering department for NewCom, Inc. as their Linux compatability tester and such.
During that time, I believe RedHat was about to go public, and I'm pretty sure because I laughed at my boss for not taking my advice and jumping on the Linux bandwagon as I told him he should have.
Nevertheless, and needless to say, I don't have my WebPal device anymore. Now I know I should have kept it around a lot longer since it did have the IDE port and such on it to expand it.
In any case, I'm going to see if anyone I know from the old NewCom has any information that may be of help to you guys since Linux is being ported to it. Although WebPal isn't being manufactured anymore (from what I can tell), I'd still like to see Linux run on it.
Regards,
WarpKat
Ex-NewCom Employee

05-19-2003 12:42:43

New Message RE:It's Nice to See It Still Exists (modified 0 times) bigbrd

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Hi,
The one thing that would be cool to have would be if any of the old NewCom employees know of where all the 2Mb FLASH
SIMMs ended up, they would help people since then you could fit both the kernel and a compressed root partition big
enough to perhaps do some simple tasks. Right now, after the Linux kernel there is only about 300K left for
applications/root partition etc on the on board 1Mb FLASH SIMM that most of us use. We put either compact flash
or notebook disks on the IDE interface to get space for the / and other partitions.
So, if you can locate those 2Mb SIMMs if they still exist somewhere, you'd be a hero.
I've had a lot of fun hacking these boxes. So far, I've got one that acts as a web server
and DNS server and a second one that monitors wireless temperature sensors (by reprogramming
the 8052 chip to decode the output of a 433 Mhz radio I put inside the unit along with
a RTC, pressure sensor, etc. It dials up my ISP every nite and mails me the output.
So, lots of cool things that can be done with them....although probably using Linux
in the product would have taken too much memory (most people have had to increase
both FLASH and RAM space) for the Webpal limited memory space in the original
units.
Bill

05-20-2003 00:33:12

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