Yeah, that's probably the better solution. Now that I look at this I think that it may not serve my needs. It requires an ATX power supply. I was hoping for a DC input. Also, I'm not so sure I can get a right angle PCI adapter and have a small enough form factor. I'm looking for a linux box I can put in a pretty small package that contains wireless and a hard drive. (>80g so 2.5" may not be possible). I want the ability to carry it in my bag back and forth to work/home.
Consider it a wireless version of a firewire drive. I'm hoping to find a mini-mini motherboard not much bigger than a hard drive. Sonething with IDE and either wireless or PCMCIA to support a wireless card. If I could place it all in a case only an inch and a half larger than a hard drive I'd be happy as a clam. Unfortunametly I searched embedded linux devices and couldn't find anything. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Terry Ewing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:28 PM Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Pebble Linux Distro release > Get a mini-itx and use a pci card instead of pcmcia. > > --Terry > > --On Monday, December 16, 2002 1:52 PM -0500 Terry Ewing > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Very cool, Thanks! > > > > I'm interested in playing with a soekris board but I'd want something with > > A) small footprint > > B) PCMCIA slot for wireless card > > C) Ide interface > > D) Ability to use Linux > > > > It'd be nice if I could find something like this cheap. The Soerkis > > boards don't have IDE so I'd have to get the dual PCMCIA board to use > > wireless + IDE unless there's a compact flash -> IDE connector I don't > > know about. Any of the newer PC-104 boards should work. It'd also be > > nice if the board came with a serial port, ethernet, and POE but that's > > just gravy. > > > > Anyone know of such a beast? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Terry Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jon Baer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 9:31 PM > > Subject: Re: [nycwireless] Pebble Linux Distro release > > > > > >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:28:21PM -0500, Jon Baer wrote: > >> > The other question I had was what PCI card for 802 u were using (on the > >> > 501?) > >> > >> I'm using the Dlink 802.11 pci card on the soekris net4501. Make sure > >> not to get the 22mbps one, as you need a prism2 card, not a TI chipset. > >> The linksys card works as well as the sparklan. > >> > >> --Terry > >> -- > >> NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > >> Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > >> Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > >> > > > > -- > > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > > > > > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
