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cmilte
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Posted: Feb. 10 2005,22:59

Quote (tackettb @ Feb. 08 2005,10:22)

Has anyone used a larger than 256mb cf on this? 256mb is as high as they go in the ibm documentation.
Also has anyone gotten any new apps to run? I attempted to run Teamspeak server, but it just starts then I get kernel panic and dumps to console then requires a restart.

I mine off ebay last week for $9.99 + $15S&H after losing another auction for one with the keyboard and mouse for $61.

Anyhow...I installed a 512MB CF card I picked up from OfficeMax last week and it is detected correctly by the bios.

Has anyone been able to get a USB wifi adapter to work? What about a USB external hard drive? I'd want to listen to shoutcast stations out in my workshop and play mp3/ogg files from the external hard drive, but I'd like to avoid running cat5 across the back yard (very low acceptance level by the old lady).

Thanks,
Chris

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Posted: Feb. 11 2005,08:19

The site with the linux for netvista 2200
http://www.mitglied.lycos.de/aitaits/2200linux/
is down.
The provider closed it because of to much traffic (and/or to big files).
Any idea where i can host the linux for netvista 2200.

apeman
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Posted: Feb. 11 2005,18:22

8363, I can host the files for you. email me at: apemanspaceman@gmail.com and I can put the files up under my site for you.

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Posted: Feb. 11 2005,23:35

If you can't get a WIFI adapter to work with your thin client, an alternative might be to set up a wireless bridge. If you already own the router/AP, you can buy a bridge or "gaming adapter" and then connect it up to the wired LAN port on your thin client. The thin client will think that it is connected to a wired network instead of a wireless network.

Otherwise, you could purchase two LinkSYS WRT54g routers and install sveasoft custom firmware that allows you to use the 2nd router as a wireless bridge in "WDS mode".

cmilte
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Posted: Feb. 12 2005,00:56

I'm trying to keep this project as inexpensive as possible, so purchasing a wireless bridge is out. I have an old laptop I can set up as a wireless bridge (maybe even as an access point) if I can find a 16-bit PCMCIA wireless adapter it will recognize. Yeah...it's an old laptop!

I've got a CF card reader on order but I wanted to try flashing the bios when I noticed the option to boot from a tftp server. I started up tftp32j (a freeware Windows tftp client and syslog/dhcp/tftp server) on my workstation, rebooted the toaster, and flashed the bios across the network.

Running with that thought I unzipped the 2200linux.tgz file into the tftp server's shared directory and rebooted the toaster. It started to boot but stopped abruptly with a kernel panic when it couldn't contact an NFS server. I might try booting my workstation into Knoppix and setting up an NFS share. Has anyone tried this?

BTW...I put the original CF card back in and it still boots even after flashing the bios.

Chris

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