View Full Version : Ethernet adaptor for WAR
Bossman
11-29-2006, 11:41 PM
In the latest stable realease the PC version is listed as having support for another ethernet card:
- Added support for the Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit cards
I was wondering if there are any mini-pci Ethernet cards supported and if so if someone can recommend any.
I have an old PC based system with 1 wireless and 3 ethernet interfaces that I would like to upgrade to V3 and I'd rather stay with the WAR.
ninedd
11-30-2006, 12:11 AM
Possibly this board would accept a V3 license?
http://www.gateworks.com/avila_gw2345.htm
Bossman
11-30-2006, 02:39 AM
That does look slick, but the datasheet lists the ports as a "5 port switch" whereas I need 3 or more seperate ports that I can route between. Not sure if I'm reading it right, but I don't think it's what I need.
I'm sure a mini-pci ethernet card with the same chipset as the onboard would work. I'd just like some confirmation from someone who knows.. and even a source for the cards. :-)
It would likely be presented to the OS as one ethernet device rather than five. The Linksys WRT54G's Broadcom board is setup like this as well. It uses a VLAN configuration to differentiate the different physical ports so you end up with one actual ethernet chipset but vlan0 and vlan1 are there as 4/LAN and 1/WAN ports. There are tools which run under Linux to control the switch configuration so you could put all of the physical ethernet ports in their own vlans and effectively get yourself five separate ethernet ports.
It would have to be seen how to configure the switch VLAN config on the Gateworks board or if you can even do it at all or if it even uses VLANs at all like I described in the first paragraph.
As for miniPCI ethernet cards, I've got nothing. Good luck. Google shows that there are a couple out there that use Intel and 3com chipsets. I'm not even sure how you physically get the RJ45 jack wired to the miniPCI card.
Elshar
12-01-2006, 03:25 PM
As for miniPCI ethernet cards, I've got nothing. Good luck. Google shows that there are a couple out there that use Intel and 3com chipsets. I'm not even sure how you physically get the RJ45 jack wired to the miniPCI card.
From what I've seen you do it via dongles. Kind of like the early PCMCIA/PCCARD adapters. If you do an image search on google for mini pci ethernet, you'll see a couple of what I'm talking about.