Thank you for the post. We have 2 Dachshunds that we keep corralled in the kitchen while at work. The smaller one has taken on the roll of Houdini. She is almost always out when I get home. I want to be able to see how see does it. Would it be possible to stream the video to my work station and record it?<br>
Thank you again.<br>Bob<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 30, 2008 5:05 AM, K O <<a href="mailto:wpos2@roadrunner.com">wpos2@roadrunner.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
LMAO!!! Has someone been getting into the people food, and are you<br>suspecting the cat rather than the dog?<br><br>I ran up to Red Hat 7.3 on my Pentium 2 300 with 384 MB RAM before the<br>processor fan stopped working. Yes: I realize that Red Hat can be<br>
considered bloated. But it wasn't bad in my experience, plus my IBM PC<br>Camera did work. I'm not sure that DSL supports USB, at least out of<br>the box, so to speak. Then again, I don't know how well (if at all)<br>
wifi works under Red Hat before it split off into Enterprise and Beta,<br>er, Fedora.<br><br>The 1 package that you will need is ndiswrapper, which allows you to use<br>Windows drivers for wireless cards (primarily). (I'm assuming that you<br>
don't have one of the few wireless cards that run natively under Linux.)<br> The camera app that I recommend is camstream. With it you can choose<br>filetype, put in a timestamp, and opt reuse the same filename or append<br>
a timestamp or sequential number. The setup seems pretty easy.<br><br>I'm actually setting this up on my Ubuntu box. I wonder how my dog<br>deals with my absence all day. I've been wanting to do this for a long<br>
time, and your post is an impetus to actually get this going.<br><br>Robert Stockdale IV pisze:<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> I have on old notebook that I want to use with a web cam to monitor pets<br>> during the day while at work. The notebook has an AMD K3 300 cpu with 64<br>
> meg ram and I believe it is either a 3gig or 4gig hard drive. I do<br>> however, have an 80 gig external usb hard drive I can use with it. I can<br>> use a pc-card wireless to connect to my home network. What would be the<br>
> best Linux Distro and what packages would I require?<br>> Thank you.<br>> Bob<br>><br>><br></div></div>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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