On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Michael C. Robinson <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > I have an old PII 300 system in a separate building the purpose of which > is to act as a wireless router and camera platform. Why a PII-300? > Don't care if it gets stolden. I use SCSI hard drives, a Cheetah 18 gig > and two Compaq 4 gig drives connected to an Adaptec 2940U2W. Trouble > is, the hard drives randomly drop. Anyone experience this problem that > knows of a solution? > > Another question, a full blown computer seems like overkill. I want a > non intrusive indoor AP, possibly wireless cameras, and phone > capability. It should be possible to call through the network anyone > in the other two buildings and via a special code perhaps access an > outside line. The output of the cameras should be visible from anywhere > on the network. So, I'm looking at 8 locations for telephone. > Alternatively, being able to ring a bell remotely would be helpful. > > Another problem I'm having, I have a USB connected APC ups that I'm > trying to connect via the latest version of NUT. I get kernel won't > release or something similar, permission denied errors. Obviously, > running a battery backup when the computer has local hard drives > is important. >
For the phone thing, you can use voip devices - like Linksys spa2102. Those are are out there on the cheap. For the camera and wireless, something like http://www.pcengines.ch/ alic boards with a wireless card and usb camera attached would work. Then again if you are really on the cheap, and time is not really an issue, getting replacement drives might be a better way to go. Checking the drives, get the sg3-utils package and use sg_logs -a /dev/<device> to get a list of errors the drive is seeing. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
