[MLB-WIRELESS] R100 / wl-500gP with openwrt RC5 Running Full perl

[Peter Buncle]

For those who are interested, 

I had an old debian box just to run a perl script that uploads images to
a website.
using about ~100w of power.

The images are coming from an r100 running a logitech quickcam pro
webcam with PWC. 


Well thanks to someone else's efforts in compiling all the packages for
openwrt,
Full perl is available to run on Openwrt !

NOTE:   This does take a lot of flash , my install took about 50Mb so
you HAVE 
to already complete the procedure to make the r100/wl-500gp boot of a
usb key.

Once this is done, you can happily run full perl !

Just don't load the r100 up with other heavy programs at the same time
while 
your running your script, it does only have 16meg of ram and may die.

I used a bash script in a loop to grab the image (high load), 
then run the perl to parse & upload.


I'm doing my bit for the enviornment & have just cut 100w off my
continuos power usage.


References

http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=4122

http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~colberg/openwrt/bin/whiterussian/0.9/



To easily install perl (there's HEAPS of modules)

Add 

src perl http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~colberg/openwrt/bin/whiterussian/0.9
To your /etc/ipkg.conf file

Ipkg update

Ipkg install perl

Ipkg install perl-www




Have fun,

Peter
NodeGUR




-----Original Message-----
From: melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au
[mailto:melbwireless-bounces at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Simon Wong
Sent: Thursday, 26 July 2007 1:32 AM
To: wireless at smithsgully.net; melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] looking for canopy reflector

Thanks Dave, where abouts are you located?
Are you using your 27db grids instead of the canopy? If so would it be
worth me buying one of these to connect to HVC?
As far as I know the canopy has no plugs for external grid antennas so
how would that work? Soldering?


Regards,
Simon Wong.


Ratbaggy wrote:
> No use for it currently especially since I just purchased 2 27dB grids

> for 5.8.  I can bring it to the next meeting but if you need it sooner

> we can make some arrangement.  Phone is 0418 309 038.
>
> Dave.
>
> David Ashburner wrote:
>>
>> Hey Simon,
>> I dumped another of the dishes that Rohan is using with Dave ( 
>> ratbaggy ). I'm sure he can let you have it if he hasn't used it for 
>> something else already.
>>
>> You have a canopy radio now? where did you get it?
>>
>> cheers,
>> dna
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:42 AM, Simon Wong wrote:
>>
>>> does anyone have a spare reflector for a motorola 5.8ghz canopy.
>>> i am trying to connect to HVC about 10km away from elsternwick.
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