I managed to fit a D-link DWL-520 (Intersil Prism) Wlan card and an Amigo (Conexant AccessRunner), since replaced with a Sangoma S518 ADSL card in a Travla C137 silver case and still have room for a hard drive. This arrangement is intended to provide the best Internet performance from a meshbox style ITX, as they are both in the same case. The cards plug into a VIA EPIA 5000 Mini-ITX board with the dual PCI riser. DSL Meshbox in situ.

Under the PSU board there is the Travla CompactFlash card reader. This connects to the EPIA 5000 with a 40 way IDE cable, as an 80 way one does not fit due to the missing pinhole on an 80 way cable! I still use the other 80 way lead to connect the hard drive.

I have a compactflash reader as I originally intended this machine to be fanless.

I later found out I could pack a hard disk in as well, so I did. It woudn't wear out from constant writes due to logging and caching, as a CF card supposedly does. The machine isn't running near where I sleep anyway.

This machine uses 19 volts from an external PSU. Laptop power converters are available to step-up from 12 volts, so it could be possible to run this arrangement from a car battery and a photo-voltaic solar panel array. I would suggest that a voltage monitor inform the ITX of the battery and panel state, when used in this way.

The PSU, being Double Insulated, provides no ground for the case, presumably so HiFi users wishing to avoid ground loops and the associated hum can ground the unit themselves.

I am not currently using the unit in this way, so the unit provides a lovely 50Hz buzzing sensation when stroking the cabinet, when it is not grounded by other means, So I decided to ground it myself, with a short length of wire connected to the earth pin of the plug at one end, and to a chassis thumbscrew at the other, and the buzzing has gone. Since adding a parallel port laser printer however, that provides a ground so this is no longer needed.

To save on an extra PSU, the ethernet switch on top runs off 12 volts taken from a spare floppy connector inside the cabinet.