> 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. > <snip> > > so questions repeated for clarity: > - Will I reduce power requirements by using a 386 Mobo in repeater site?
Probably not, or at least not a lot. If you're worried about power consumption, you need to get a current single-chip embedded type PC. The smaller geometry of the current chips, combined with less I/O lines in the "all-in-one-chip" solution (it takes much more power to drive an external signal than an on-chip signal) will reduce your power needs substantially over any "conventional" motherboard. IIRC, you can get the "all-in-one" single-chip type systems with anything from a 386 to a pentium class CPU core. You'll have to see what fits in your power and $$$ budget. I think there are links to some of these sorts of devices on the LEAF hardware page... > - Is it worth the effort if I have to re-work one of the LEAF's to run > on 386? Probably...see below > - What would be required to get to run on 386? Compile a kernel for a 386 system. That's it...everything else will "just run" > - Anyone know of problems using Symbols Spectrum24 2Mbps ISA cards on > low spec machines with LEAF distros? Not I... > - Is there a LEAF distro you can recommend for this? I'd say Dachstein, but I'm biased :) Actually, I'd use whatever makes talking to your Spectrum24 cards easy... > - Anyone tried WRP, would it work ok in a repeater only situation? No experience with this...sorry :< Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
