Mike Chambers
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i had been giving this some thought for a few days, and i sat down to actually put it together tonight. i took the Compaq Portable luggable 8088 i got recently and have given it the power of hidden internal wireless.
"BUT MIKE HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???"
thank you for asking, mysterious voice from nowhere. i took a linksys WRT54G v2 router that i had laying around, and installed DD-WRT ( http://www.dd-wrt.com ) - which i then configured to act as a wireless to ethernet bridge.
i removed most of the router's plastic casing and internally mounted it to the portable's chassis, and it's tapped into the computer's 5 VDC line for juice. (it pulls an absolute max of 1 amp @ 5 volts, so it shouldn't be putting much strain on the PSU.) .... i ran a little ethernet cable from one of the router's ports to the NE1000-compatible card i have in it.
^ i removed the antennas, soldered that thin green wire there to where the antenna jacks connect to the circuit board .. which i ran to one of the screws to just use the chassis itself for the antenna.
i'm using mbbrutman's nice DOS telnet client to log into the router to make configuration changes.. pic of it logged into it:
some of the ifconfig output:
using leetIRC on it wirelessly:
where the ethernet cable connects:
and here it is all put together and looking rather unassuming, ready to go.
"BUT MIKE HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE???"
thank you for asking, mysterious voice from nowhere. i took a linksys WRT54G v2 router that i had laying around, and installed DD-WRT ( http://www.dd-wrt.com ) - which i then configured to act as a wireless to ethernet bridge.
i removed most of the router's plastic casing and internally mounted it to the portable's chassis, and it's tapped into the computer's 5 VDC line for juice. (it pulls an absolute max of 1 amp @ 5 volts, so it shouldn't be putting much strain on the PSU.) .... i ran a little ethernet cable from one of the router's ports to the NE1000-compatible card i have in it.
^ i removed the antennas, soldered that thin green wire there to where the antenna jacks connect to the circuit board .. which i ran to one of the screws to just use the chassis itself for the antenna.
i'm using mbbrutman's nice DOS telnet client to log into the router to make configuration changes.. pic of it logged into it:
some of the ifconfig output:
using leetIRC on it wirelessly:
where the ethernet cable connects:
and here it is all put together and looking rather unassuming, ready to go.
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