Well, they built out most of the functions of the OMAP processor, and the processor doesn't include an ethernet MAC. I imagine they also wanted to avoid adding cost (or increasing board size) where it might not be used, since the USB is high speed (480mbps) and already supports ethernet, wifi, and bluetooth modules out of the box. Still, I know one of the reasons so many linux boards have ethernet onboard is that it's the fastest way to upload linux and a disk image - right now the board doesn't support USB bootloading, so you're stuck with serial (ugh!), JTAG (still not very fast), or using a memory card (They brought back the venerable sneakernet!). Once past bootstrapping your device, though, using a USB ethernet or wireless adaptor doesn't seem so bad, and gives you a little bit of flexibility. -Adam On 8/7/08, Peter Loron wrote: > Yeah, saw that too. Looks very slick, although I'm mystified as to why > they put so much effort into providing good multimedia capabilities > and failed to put an ethernet interface on there. > > It could make a great SOHO Asterisk box if you stored voicemail on a > network mounted volume. > > -Pete > > On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:40 PM, Alex Harford wrote: > > > Just saw this on the Digikey front page: > > http://beagleboard.org/ > > > > 600MHz ARM > > > > Able to do 720p decoding with the DSP + mplayer patches > > > > It seems like it's a very community oriented website, on their > > hardware accessories page, they list Digikey and Sparkfun as possible > > vendors. But they also allow people to tag pages through the > > del.icio.us website: http://delicious.com/tag/beagleboard+peripheral > > -- > > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > > View/change your membership options at > > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- EARTH DAY 2008 Tuesday April 22 Save Money * Save Oil * Save Lives * Save the Planet http://www.driveslowly.org -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist