On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Roland Orre wrote: > The netwinder really looks like an attractive machine, maybe not the > ideal wearable but it seems you get a lot for the money. One can see > it like this: you can start using it as a wearable and when you've > found a better or more suitable machine as a wearable you can always > use it as a router, fileserver, bridge, nameserver, car computer, > kitchen oven control or you name it. It is rather complete and just > to plug in. That's how I am looking at it. I plan to use the NetWinder as a wearable until I have a working PLEB board, then switch to that and use the 'Winder as a more general purpose desktop machine and server. > I considered buying one and maybe test this as a wearable, but I have > some considerations for that. > 1) Is it possible to attach some PCMCIA boards in some way? > If I can not attach a wavelan and cellular phone it makes not much > use for me as a wearable. Not as yet, no. The main problem seems to be the case, which is too small. Several people have expressed an interest in replacing the internal daughter card with one with a PCMCIA interface on it as a third party expansion though, so I would wait and see. > 2) If there is no PCMCIA possibility, are there any small TP ethernet > to Wavelan bridges available? I don't know. Is wavelan some kind of radio modem? > 3) It would be nice to use the video input for framegrabbing, but is > this input/output only NTSC? > Most cameras here in Europe produce PAL. The video chips support PAL as well (don't know about SECAM), so it's just a matter of waiting till the driver supports it (which shouldn't be long; I expect development to take off soon, now the new firmware has been released and the ELF kernel is about to be released). --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. -------------- : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham : -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ -------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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