Re: State of play of the projects.

From: "Steve- Vacuum Networks" <[email protected]>
> Alex Threlfall wrote:
> > How's the NodeInABox thing coming along?
>
> Doug had a quick successful trial with the guts of a compaq craptop,
> MeshAP booting off a 32M compact flash card (via yer loaned adapter),
> off a 12V battery (Maplin), with a Lucent-based chipset-card in the
> deck. I've got a bunch of logs / processes / stats-when-running off it
> on my laptop, for anyone interested. Now need to build the first
> proper one into el-ammobox, do a proper solder-to-mobo-job for the
> CF-hotseat, work out the hotplug-to-recharge method, and possibly
> build a dedicated linux distro.

Cool!  Have you discovered whether MeshAP works as advertised?

> Over xmas period, the main project was building a mediaserver, in the
> Something-Else geek category. Mainly so we could geek from the lounge
> and record flims off telly, and suchlike. ;-)

http://freevo.sourceforge.net may interest you.

> Andy, you picked up a bulkload of the compaq craptop mobos, no? Might
> be worth hooking up down here and running them thru a dead-or-alive?
> session to see what you've got. Give us a shout on that.

ITYF that they are all working.  They were all working systems when they
were donated, and the ones I've tried (most) are OK.

> Incidentally, did any of the rest of you make it to the Easton
> Wireless bash at the Cube Microplex, as mentioned in NTK before xmas?
> Me n Doug made it down there, but didn't spot anyone else from our
> clan.

I couldn't make it that day.  The CLAN are meeting again on Friday evening
at the Chelsea pub in Easton.  I shall do my best to be there, and there's a
good few people likely to turn up.  A big point of discussion will be
getting wireless coverage *in* the pub!

Andy


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