Hey Russell!

Jan 26 22:14 07, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> That done yet ... ?

I have it all wired in and it's been running for almost 48 hours from a
regular ide drive which I wired into the DC/DC power supply for now.  I
want to get two 44-pin ide flash disks for it instead but that will have to
wait.  In the meantime I am building a custom ttylinux for it (almost
done), configure and test it so that when the flash disks are here I can
just install the working system to them.  I am hoping by tomorrow, maybe
today if things go well if Paul stops distracting me, it'll be the main
connected system here.  Right now it is only communicating on the wireless
network.  Works great but the current / is far too beefy then it needs to
be.  I just wanted to see what I could get away with on there and it is
better then I thought it would be.  Unreal what a 486 can do these days. 
:-)

Also I have to wire in the rest as pure DC input (AC adapters at present).

 RT> Well if I could get 4x sattelite dishes, and a wireless repeater, I'd 
 RT> build 
 RT> myself a 1.5km wireless backbone, need the repeater to change path 
 RT> 90% ...

Should be doable.  I highly recommend ralink based wireless cards and the
latest 2.6 kernels.  Exactly what we needed here at Kumalockasun.

 RT> They work very well by all reports ...

Paul is starting some new jerryrigging and was just here to show me his
plan.  When we're finished both ends and have them debugged we'll be happy
to write it all up and share our experience ... once we get experience.  So
far it looks like we can pull this off and get it to behave the way we want
it to.  For sure ftp audio/video streaming works.  I already know that. 
I'd like to see you get involved more from your end but have to get the
custom ttylinux up and running first.  I'll let you know as soon as it is
fully operational and it should be no later then tomorrow.

Life is good,
Maurice

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