Hardware

I am about to buy a Soekris 5501-60, guess the 5501-70 is way to much for m0n0wall.

but what image should i use? the wrap and 4801 are having spec. 486 kernels right ?
and the genric PC image das not support serial redirect, because no keyboard, no vga on the 5501.

Any idea ?

this has already been discussed if you search for 'Soekris 5501' here and in the list archives. Use generic PC.

But generic PC have to have a VGAcard, keyboardcontroller right?

the 5501 does not have this and needs a consolredirect to the serialport as it does on the wrap and the older soekris.

Anyway i'm going to take a Jetwayboard with 3 Realtec's and the Onboard Via nic.
They support devicepolling.
Set CPU speed to 600mhz and will be still faster than the soekris and lower power as well !
And we cheaper

The only tuff part is, to find 128MB DDR2 533 Ram.

But generic PC have to have a VGAcard, keyboardcontroller right?

No.

The serial console on the Soekris boards isn't like the one on the WRAP board, it doesn't require any changes to run display on serial. A (very) few people run the generic PC image on 4801's. Assuming the 5501 is no different from that perspective, it'll work fine.

OK didn't that works

but i will use Jetway miniITX anyhow, cheaper and faster.