[MLB-WIRELESS] Mast mounted wish list

[grenville armitage]

Lyndon David wrote:
	[..]
> mini ITX motherboards.
> Very cheap, small, no fans if using VIA Eden processor. Add an IDE to CF
> converter for no moving parts. Power supply is a bit of a pain as it runs
> from an ATX supply. Not ideal for headless operation unless the BIOS can be
> told to redirect to the serial port. (have not read the manual)

FWIW, I run a couple of mini ITX boards here under FreeBSD and they work okay
headless. In my specific scenario I have five ESP5000 fanless units - one acting
as a serial console server (http://caia.swin.edu.au/reports/030219A/) to the
other four, all headless.

cheers,
gja
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Grenville Armitage
http://caia.swin.edu.au
I come from a LAN downunder.

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