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I've got my Digital Picture frame working at last!!! So, I used DSL (Linux), a Dell 233 CP laptop, and feh. I used mostly the scripts and instructions from this guy: http://www.thewares.net/item/33 I did not use the built in sound card, but added a USB sound card. I added an external momentary button to trigger the on/off functionality. I added an external DPST switch to turn the 'built in' speakers on and off. They are the speakers that were in the laptop, and with a few small holes in the back, they come through loud and clear. I took the guts out of some unpowered PC speakers that allowed for an external 1/8" jack if I want. I put that on the side, but if I did it again, I'd make my own PCB board and mount the jack on the back. I mounted the dongle from the network card so that it is accessed from the back. I may revisit WiFi at some point. I put a DC power jack on the back, and cut the power supply cable, wiring it to have the nice jack on the back, and it'...

So, what has been going on with the Digital Picture frame? I gave up on sound, sort of. I got a cheap ($9!!!) USB sound adapter, and guess what, it works with DSL. So, let's look at my expenses so far? New laptop keyboard 64Mb RAM chip PC Card Network Adapter USB Sound Adapter Plus a media card reader I've been able to get a slideshow and music on DSL, so I decided I was ready to rip it apart and stick the guts in an actual frame. I'm not done yet. I have the guts sitting in the case, but the cables hang out the back. I'm in the process of finishing the back by putting power and sound buttons, as well as jacks for connections. This is the detail work. But you can see my progress and the laptop and media card reader sitting in the case running here: http://mark.phillk.net/gallery2/v/mkenyon2/DigFrame/ Enjoy and thanks.

If you read my previous post , you saw that I wanted to get WiFi networking working on Damn Small Linux (DSL), which uses a 2.4 Kernel. My PCMCIA card (had it in my junk collection, and didn't want to spend $$ on a newer one) is a D-Link DWL-G630 (DWL G630) card. Version A1. Not A1 as in awesome, great, easy to install on linux. A1 as in the first version, of which they've gone up to version E. There are write-ups on how to set up network cards on linux in all manner of ways. Several for this card suggested MadWifi. I could never get MadWifi to install in a way that I saw it do anything. The best one I saw was on Leedberg.com . However, there were a few clarifications needed in his instructions. This card uses mrv8k51.inf as the driver. To get this card to work with ndiswrapper, use the Win98 drivers. DSL doesn't have DHClient. I don't know where to find DHClient, or something similar for DSL. Now, what do I mean 'it's working, I think'? Well, I'm at wor...

I recently acquired (thanks dad) an old Dell Latitude CP laptop. This is a little 166MHz, 32 Mb RAM system, nothing fancy. But it does have a 12" 800x600 16mil color screen. So, I set out to do what I've seen others do, convert the little guy into a digital picture frame. Important points are in bold if you want to skip through with just highlights. I found several sites, including this one ( http://www.lepolt.com/blog/...digital-picture-frame/ ) that pointed to Damn Small Linux (from here on out referred to DSL) as the OS of choice. I'd played with it, but to no depth, so I rolled up my sleeves, got out a ReWritable CD, and downloaded the ISO. First things first. DSL-N is not DSL. It is like it, but the steps online are not the same. One of the links to download DSL led me to a site that also had DSL-N. It took me a while to realize that I did that and that was why the online steps did not work. Scratch 2 days. Now, with the correct version in hand I set out to set up m...