TS-7200 and FreeBSD

[John-Mark Gurney]

Patrick Collins wrote this message on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:22 +1000:
> I am designing a marine navigation and monitoring system and am
> considering using the Technologic TS-7200 with FreeBSD. I would like
> to use FreeBSD because I am very familiar with it but support for the
> TS-7200 seems to be limited. Would I be better off using NetBSD or
> Linux. I would appreciate your honest opinion on this.
> 
> Does anyone have a kernel configuration file for the TS-7200.

As long as you don't need ethernet (reliably) and possibly willing to
write any additional device drivers you might need, it works, though
a bit slowly.  The ethernet works enough to mount root over nfs, but
in some cases, a ping packet will not be able to be transmitted.

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