[Dxspider-support] MSI Wind NetTop runs DX Spider

[Bob Nielsen]

I've been thinking about trying one of these for my node ($99, only  
19 watts):

http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/c-2-globalscale-technologies- 
products.aspx

Bob N7XY

On May 8, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Bob - KL5E wrote:

> I just built a barebones MSI NetTop with Suse 11.1 running DX  
> Spider.  It’s still burning in on the LAN but looks like a winner.   
> Next week I plan to replace the current PC with this new box.  It  
> uses only 35 watts whereas the old junker PC consumes some 200  
> watts.  I don’t expect any problems – unless you know of potential  
> issues.
>
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> The MSI has an Intel ATOM processor at 1.6 GHz.  I added 2GB RAM  
> (there’s only one slot) and a 1TB HDD.  I could have purchased a  
> smaller HDD but this one was cheap.  I also plan to run Apache web  
> server in the near future.  It is powered by a small laptop like  
> supply.   (Now I see someone else builds a similar motherboard  
> powered from 12 vdc.  That would allow the system to run on a  
> battery bank.)
>
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> The only hard part so far was building a boot disk on my thumb  
> drive for the initial Suse install.  The machine has a socket for a  
> flash card if you want to run the system diskless – but I didn’t  
> need this for my intended use.
>
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>
> Bob KL5E
>
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