[TriLUG] Dell TrueMobile 1184 wireless router arrived

Magnus chrish at trilug.org
Tue Jun 17 09:21:29 EDT 2003


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On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Greg Brown wrote:

> So this is somewhat related... who is the manufacturer of that chip 
> with the "fighting crab" logo sitting in about the middle of the 
> device?

I know the one you're talking about.  That was a Realtek ( 
http://www.realtek.com.tw/ ) chip.  I had taken a closeup of this chip 
with the intentions of looking up its function later, but the picture 
didn't turn out.  I'm ass-uming that this is ether the ethernet 
controller or the 802.11b controller (likely the former).

> I think I can see the RAM in the device, but where is the "disk on 
> chip" chip?  I suppose there are plenty of ways to make an embedded 
> Linux device, but I've usually seen some kind of disk on chip device.

Dunno yet.  My closeups were all garbage.  I went through and took 
extreme closeups of all of the chips in there thinking I'd look at them 
on a nice big monitor instead of real size.  The macro function on my 
digital camera stinks though.  None of them turned out.  I'll open it 
back up and either get better pictures with another camera, or just 
make notes of what is in there.

> Neato project, though.

I hope so.  :-)  My biggest fear is flashing a dud image on there and 
not having a way to flash a known good one back on again, so I need to 
figure out whether it is possible or not to flash with an attached SRAM 
card or something strictly through hardware.

- --

C. Magnus Hedemark
"From the Fury of the Norsemen please Deliver us, Oh Lord" 
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