I was wondering if anyone has used the QNX OS for cable modem sharing?
I have recently acquired a crate full of WaveRider boxes that contain
a Wireless Intersil Prism card and an interesting card that has an
entire PC with all of the peripherals built-in. These cards have
Pentum 233 MMX processors and the added feature of 8 MB DiskOnChips.
I am currently communicating thru one of these units as a cable modem
sharing proxy which I have setup with the Win98SE built-in ICS feature
(Internet Connection Sharing). This is using a small hard disk which
is connected to the onboard IDE controller.
The game plan has two phases:
Phase 1.
I would like to utilize the 8 MB DiskOnChip to act as the QNX OS and
cable modem sharing proxy without the use of any hard disks, etc.
My question would be, " Is it possible to fit this on an 8 MB DOC? "
and what are the basic procedures to do this? I am new to QNX…
Phase 2.
After this has been accomplished, I would like to take it one step
further and utilize the Wireless Intersil Prism cards and make the
entire cable modem sharing operation wireless.
If anyone has any constructive suggestions or would like to help
out in this little project, it would be much appreciated. Thanks…
iwerk@home.com
George Craft <iwerk@home.com> wrote:
I was wondering if anyone has used the QNX OS for cable modem sharing?
I have recently acquired a crate full of WaveRider boxes that contain
a Wireless Intersil Prism card and an interesting card that has an
entire PC with all of the peripherals built-in. These cards have
Pentum 233 MMX processors and the added feature of 8 MB DiskOnChips.
I am currently communicating thru one of these units as a cable modem
sharing proxy which I have setup with the Win98SE built-in ICS feature
(Internet Connection Sharing). This is using a small hard disk which
is connected to the onboard IDE controller.
The game plan has two phases:
Phase 1.
I would like to utilize the 8 MB DiskOnChip to act as the QNX OS and
cable modem sharing proxy without the use of any hard disks, etc.
My question would be, " Is it possible to fit this on an 8 MB DOC? "
Very easily.
and what are the basic procedures to do this? I am new to QNX…
Best way to do this is to install QNX 4 on a desktop system then
build your custom system bit by bit by either creating a mock
target system or stripping down the fully installed version. Then
transfer the mock system to your target system. Or you can slowly
build up the target system bit by bit as well starting with a boot image
and a basic file system. I belive TCP/IP 5.0 has IP forwarding but you
can also find a copy of Squid proxy that was ported on the free software
section:
http://quics.qnx.com/cgi-bin/search/usr/free/?srch=Squid&select=1
Phase 2.
After this has been accomplished, I would like to take it one step
further and utilize the Wireless Intersil Prism cards and make the
entire cable modem sharing operation wireless.
Not sure about this, as currently there isn’t a wireless driver for
this card under QNX4, however that doesn’t rule it never comming out
either. Perhaps QNX 6.1 might be a better solution for the nic problem.
E.
If anyone has any constructive suggestions or would like to help
out in this little project, it would be much appreciated. Thanks…
iwerk@home.com
You realize you would have to buy a QNX4 license to do this right ? If
not, then you’d best look at QNX6 where (if you using this at home - not
@home 
you wouldn’t need to purchase a license. With QNX6, you
should be able to get everything you need on an 8MB DOC (you could with
QNX4 also - but I don’t think there is much in the way of NAT for QNX4).
-----Original Message-----
From: George Craft [mailto:iwerk@home.com]
Posted At: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 11:28 PM
Posted To: qnx4
Conversation: DiskOnChip cable modem sharing
Subject: DiskOnChip cable modem sharing
I was wondering if anyone has used the QNX OS for cable modem sharing?
I have recently acquired a crate full of WaveRider boxes that contain
a Wireless Intersil Prism card and an interesting card that has an
entire PC with all of the peripherals built-in. These cards have
Pentum 233 MMX processors and the added feature of 8 MB DiskOnChips.
I am currently communicating thru one of these units as a cable modem
sharing proxy which I have setup with the Win98SE built-in ICS feature
(Internet Connection Sharing). This is using a small hard disk which
is connected to the onboard IDE controller.
The game plan has two phases:
Phase 1.
I would like to utilize the 8 MB DiskOnChip to act as the QNX OS and
cable modem sharing proxy without the use of any hard disks, etc.
My question would be, " Is it possible to fit this on an 8 MB DOC? "
and what are the basic procedures to do this? I am new to QNX…
Phase 2.
After this has been accomplished, I would like to take it one step
further and utilize the Wireless Intersil Prism cards and make the
entire cable modem sharing operation wireless.
If anyone has any constructive suggestions or would like to help
out in this little project, it would be much appreciated. Thanks…
iwerk@home.com