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ALIX3D2 Arrives

I’ve been hoping to upgrade my older ALIX2D3 router / firewall / wireless access point for a while now. While taking a few hours off from work over the holiday I surfed over to PCEngines and bought myself a Christmas present: a matching pair of ALIX3D2 boards and a Compex WLM200N5-23 MiniPCI card (802.11an) plus [...]

Posted 09 January 2012 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Using tmpfs to Minimize Disk IO

Now that I’ve got my ALIX system up and running Lenny, it’s time to tweak the configuration. One of the things I liked best about the Voyage distribution is its use of tmpfs for the directories that receive a lot of writes to minimize the IO on the compact flash (CF) card. The reason for [...]

Posted 03 January 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

Installing Lenny on ALIX 2d3 over Serial Console

In my last post I linked to the howto forge article that gives detailed instructions for installing Debian on a PCEngines WRAP system. After playing with Voyage Linux on my new ALIX system (the successor to the WRAP) I decided that I would be better of going with the stock Debian Lenny (5.0). The cool [...]

Posted 02 January 2010 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,

Installing Voyage on new ALIX system

Back around 2005 I was still new to Linux. I had settled into running Debian on my desktop and I needed a new project. At the time I had a crappy DLink router / access point that would get “confused” quite consistently and had to be reset. After a roommate of mine moved out and [...]

Posted 29 December 2009 † Philip § Computer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,