I'm putting in a wireless link from friends in city to farm for faster Internet access and need to have a remote repeater site on hill running from battery and solar power. LEAF should be ideal for this. I will make a power supply to run the mother board direct from the battery to reduce losses (about %15) from using Inverter and PC supply. Sun power might be free but solar panels are not cheap, so the lower the losses and power requirements the better.
I was wondering if it was worth using a 386 board rather than a 486 to further reduce power requirements. From what I can find most of the LEAF distributions require 486 hardware, I also saw a post mentioning that slower machines with wireless cards might cause problems. I have just picked up some spectrum24 ISA 2Mbps cards for a bargain price so will be using these in the system, I only need 256Kbps so processing power isn't a biggie from what I can tell. A lot of this stems from the fact that I have a spare 386 board kicking round somewhere. Is it worth trying to use it? I will probably use 486's at each end of the system so would prefer to use the same LEAF distro to keep things simple. The WRP is supposed to run on a 386/16MB BUT on their site they say http://nocat.net/download/WRP/ "Please don't use WRP if you can possibly avoid it. We never got the chance to finish it...." Has anyone tried it? I don't have the wireless cards here yet to see what works. Only reference I could find in a search under google is that the PPP doesn't work in it, I don't need that in a repeater anyway. so questions repeated for clarity: - Will I reduce power requirements by using a 386 Mobo in repeater site? - Is it worth the effort if I have to re-work one of the LEAF's to run on 386? - What would be required to get to run on 386? - Anyone know of problems using Symbols Spectrum24 2Mbps ISA cards on low spec machines with LEAF distros? - Is there a LEAF distro you can recommend for this? - Anyone tried WRP, would it work ok in a repeater only situation? Thanks for any help. Steve Nicholson. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
