Hi,
I have a SunPCi 400Mhz card that I would like to try and use as a standalone one board PC. Has anyone tried to do this? How hard is it with regards to accessing keyboard, mouse, hard drive, network without the use of a Sun Workstation?
I'm sure I could use a USB keyboard and mouse in a hub but would this machine detect it? Any feedback would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Kelly.
Actually, this question was answered in a few other threads, but quite some time ago.
No. It will never work.It is not a complete computer-on-a-board.
The SunPCi hardware must be installed to a PCI slot in a SPARC-based system.
OpenBoot needs to interface with it so that various data signals get directed properly between the card's chipset(s) and the host systems device paths as controlled by the host computer's chipsets.
Solaris needs to interface with it with appropriate hardware 'drivers'.The SunPCi software must be installed to Solaris and various software "hooks" need to create a pseudo filesystem for the Microsoft OS that gets installed (you don't just set aside a FAT32 chunk somewhere in the middle of the UFS on the system disks).
At the very least, I'd suggest that if you have that amount of time available to figure out how to do it, then...<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_smile.gif" border=0 alt="Smile">
