Linux and aged care monitoring.

[Keith Antoine]

As some are aware I have been working on a part time basis with Care 
Services Inc, a local chartiable organisation, to get them off a NT4
based operating system and Tunstall Vision software. I have over the 
past 6 months been able to replicate both the workstations and the sever
that they use. This was necessary as the motherboard in the server they 
use had a bad bios problem. Number 2 was the very necessary job of
managing to get into the propriety database used and get hold of the 
comma deliniated data that it contained so as we could transfer it to 
another
OS and software system.

Well I have been successful in doing just that and now we are going to 
switch to running Patriot software on a 2003 server and XP workstations.
The reason for windows is that there is no 24hr aged care and medical 
monitoring software available on Linux AFAIK. However where we have
very expensive and ols Voice loggers and Lim boxes as line servers I 
have used Suse plus Asterix as pabx and sdoftware voice logger plus 
serial cards
as the main caller management, for both voip, web and pots answering and 
passing onto the 2003 and patriot.

What I need at the moment is to WIRELESS LAN the linux to the internet 
which we have as ADSL . This is a completely new area for me as
wireless was not an option when I was raelly into linux. So I need 
advice as to cards, drivers do i need to recompile the kernel or can this be
easily done nowadays, ETC,

We are basically at the installing of demo Patriot, and networking it 
all, so as we can get a demo database going and call in.  HELP :))

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Keith Antoine AKA "Skippy"
SKYPE contact: kantoine
Practising Registered Geriatric: Single Cell Brain in Storage: 
Schools: Places to teach you HOW to teach yourself, they have nothing to do with life's skills.