I've used Puppy Linux for this type of application. And used a 3com 802.11B PCMCIA card I got off ebay for $5. Puppy Linux has drivers for most wireless card chipsets.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/16/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Joe</b> <joe.hovel@-<a href="http://nospam-bigpind.com">nospam-bigpind.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm looking for someone to help me set up a linux (or DOS) installation on<br>an old (486) NEC laptop.<br>I have converted the old laptop into a "digital picture frame" and it's been<br>running Win95B for the last few years quietly hanging on my wall, connected
<br>with a Lucent WaveLan card to the 'net via my wireless home LAN. I't been<br>displaying a remote camera image in a web page in full-screen mode which<br>gets updated every 60 minutes. So the picture it displays (of my home city
<br>Cologne in Germany) is almost real-time. All this runs off a harddisk which<br>gets parked and powered down after 30 seconds of inactivity (so the whole<br>thing is pretty quiet and uses little power).<br>I want to change this over to run off a compact flash card connected via a
<br>CF to IDE adapter connected instead of the harddisk.<br>So far I have the laptop booting off the CF, running MS DOS and running a<br>slideshow of JPG files. So far so good.<br>I believe I could figure out how to set it up to connect to my wireless LAN
<br>using the DOS drivers for the WaveLan card and the MS Client for DOS off the<br>NT4 server CD (which I have) and get the TCP/IP stack up and running. But I<br>believe this stack isn't compatible with DOS web browsers like Arachne.... I
<br>might still try....<br><br>However, I believe this is a great opportunity for me to learn a bit about<br>Linux. But for this I need help.<br>I imagine that there are Linux dirvers for the Lucent wireless cards, that I
<br>could get Linux installed on the 1GB CF card I got to boot from (maybe even<br>fit the whole thing onto a 128MB or less CF card?) and run a command line<br>browser like Linx to display the webpage which showns the JPG file' URL.
<br>Maybe this requires a graphic UI in Linux? I have no idea.<br>The NEC laptop is a 486SL50 with 20 MB or RAM.<br><br>How should I proceed and what do I need?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Joe Hovel<br>(near Bendigo)<br><br><br>_______________________________________________
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