+++ Steve Wiseman [04-09-08 09:45 +0100]:
> >btw, are you planning to add integrated ethernet support to
> balloon3?
>
> Tricky. I'm trying to keep Balloon3 cheaper & easier to
> manufacture than Balloon2 was. Adding chips to the board which
> not everyone wants, and which can be added at least as cheaply
> on a CF card, needs some justification. The only reason I'd fit
> Ethernet on the board would be to get Power-over-Ethernet,
> which you don't get from a CF card.
> I'm prepared to be convinced otherwise, but, for the moment, no
> built-in Ethernet...
Having just been to a talk extolling the virtues of POE I did think 'that
would be nice on balloon' - the only truly international standard power
source. But I wonder how it would fit in with the already numerous power
options. And it would probably be 2 chips - the ethernet one and the POE
one.
I do miss ethernet...but USB provides most of the same functionality.
Wookey
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