Charles thanks for you reply much appreciated. I've had a reply from nocat.net regarding WRP
"We discontinued development on WRP ages ago... When last I visited it, wireless and ethernet worked fine, as long as the drivers for your hardware are included. It does provide dhcp, routing, and nat. It won't run QoS or throttling because it's an unpatched 2.2 kernel." I will reply asking them to update their LEAF page with this, at the moment it looks as if it is being worked on and a bit misleading. thanks Steve. > <snip> > > > > so questions repeated for clarity: > > - Will I reduce power requirements by using a 386 Mobo in > repeater site? > > Probably not, or at least not a lot. If you're worried about power > consumption, you need to get a current single-chip embedded > type PC. The > smaller geometry of the current chips, combined with less I/O > lines in the > "all-in-one-chip" solution (it takes much more power to drive > an external > signal than an on-chip signal) will reduce your power needs > substantially > over any "conventional" motherboard. > > IIRC, you can get the "all-in-one" single-chip type systems > with anything > from a 386 to a pentium class CPU core. You'll have to see > what fits in > your power and $$$ budget. I think there are links to some > of these sorts > of devices on the LEAF hardware page... > > > - Is it worth the effort if I have to re-work one of the > LEAF's to run > > on 386? > > Probably...see below > > > - What would be required to get to run on 386? > > Compile a kernel for a 386 system. That's it...everything > else will "just > run" > > > - Anyone know of problems using Symbols Spectrum24 2Mbps > ISA cards on > > low spec machines with LEAF distros? > > Not I... > > > - Is there a LEAF distro you can recommend for this? > > I'd say Dachstein, but I'm biased :) Actually, I'd use whatever makes > talking to your Spectrum24 cards easy... > > > - Anyone tried WRP, would it work ok in a repeater only situation? > > No experience with this...sorry :< > > Charles Steinkuehler > http://lrp.steinkuehler.net > http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) > >
