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On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Philip Hands phil@hands.com wrote:
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Stephen Paul Weber singpolyma@singpolyma.net wrote:
I think you need to buy an additional Ethernet-to-USB adapter.
Would be nice if such an adapter were part of a housing, but I realise there's limited resources for the housings already on offer. Thoughts for the future, I suppose :)
yeahyeah. LAN9512 on-board, so you don't lose the number of USB ports. the BOM in volume of the micro-desktop is going to be around $6-7. a variant with a USB-ETH on-board would be around $2 more and the casework would have to be slightly larger... big redesign, different product basically.
That's going to be hard-wired to a USB hub, I presume?
the LAN9512 is an odd IC which is itself a 2-port USB hub plus an ETH-PHY all in one package. so it could be used *as* the USB hub, taking up one of the 2 EOMA68 ports but then providing 2 more, so you'd get 3 external USB ports on a micro-desktop-upgraded PCB.
Would it not be better to provide one or two internal USB sockets, into which one could put an Ethernet USB-stick if that's what one wanted, but would also allow one to alternatively add a wifi stick, or bluetooth, or say a chaos-key: http://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/
ah good point - just like in the laptop housing.
yyeah let me think about that - space-wise it would be quite a bit larger than the micro-desktop. more of a macro-desktop...
l.