Musenki intellectual property assets are for sale. Please contact jamie@smallworks.com if you are interested.

This mail address is no longer valid, does anyone have valid mail address for these people? If so, please notify me (evert@bopp.be).

Jamie writes: jamie@smallworks.com should still work, although you can also write to jamie@netgate.com.

It's too bad the VC community couldn't get past the fact that we were building an Open Source AP and were going to kick Cisco/Aironet in the process. We had a great competitive analysis, responses to the endless stream of objections, but alas we had a tough time closing any deals.

The most hits on our website came from Cisco. Other AP manufacturers were close behind. Think they were scared? You bet your ass - they were terrified.

We were able to get to a working beta product with personal funds. We had sales backlog. We had everything but ******* money to manufacture the first 1000 systems when the principals called it quits.

So, the designs, etc. are available if anyone wants to purchase them to make a go of it. Both the M-1 and the M-3 basically work, today, out of the box. There is some additional software work that should be done to bring it up to the current state of the art, but it can be accomplished with a few smart people and a few weeks of work.

Cheers to all

Musenki (used to be wild*bliw) is coming out with two new Linux based access points. These are true Linux AccessPoints but they aren't available yet. A BSD version is expected sometime after the release of the Linux one. There are two basic products:

• http://www.musenki.com/

M-3 (This is the larger of the two)

• Motorola MPC8245 PowerPC Processor @ 266 MHz
• 32MB RAM expandable to 128MB
• Serial port
• Two Mini PCI slots to support radio and radio/ethernet/modem combo cards
  • Does it come with a radio? If so what are the specs?
• RP-TNC connectors
• 110VAC power supply or PoE
• SIM smart card slot
• Unsure of the following older info:
  • Expected retail: about $500 (with: one radio, 32meg RAM, 4meg Flash)
  • Expected ship date is December 2001
  • Dimensions about 8" x 11"
  • Can have 4MB, 8MB and 16MB of non-removeable Flash without changing the footprint
  • Supports up to three radios (2 x Mini PCI, 1 x PCI)
  • Unnamed radio vendor based on Prism 2.5 chipset (65mW output, 87dBm rx sensitivity)
  • Supports AP and Bridging mode

M-1 - (This is the smaller end user box)

• Motorola MPC8241 PowerPC Processor @ 200 Mhz
• 32MB RAM expandable to 128MB
• One Mini PCI slot to support radio and radio/ethernet/modem combo cards
  • Does it come with a radio? If so what are the specs?
• RP-TNC connectors
• 110VAC power supply
• SIM smart card slot
• Unsure of the following older info:
  • Expected retail: about $300 (with: 32meg RAM, 4meg Flash)
  • Can have 4MB, 8MB and 16MB of non-removeable Flash without changing the footprint
  • Unnamed radio vendor based on Prism 2.5 chipset (65mW output, 87dBm rx sensitivity)
  • Only supports AP mode (not bridging)

Here are some pictures from a presentation at BAWUG: Buddha Box Overview AP Software Chi AP Overview

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