[K12OSN] old laptops as thin clients

[Angus Carr]

Gustav J Kramer wrote:

> Rob Owens wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking about getting one or two old laptops from
>> ebay to use as thin clients.  I don't know much about
>> laptops, so are there any gotchas that I have to watch
>> out for as far as getting one that will work? 
>> I know I need an ethernet port and either a floppy,
>> hd, or cdrom (for loading the bootrom), but is there
>> anything else?  A pentium should do it, right?  Any
>> weird, incompatible hardware to watch out for?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Rob
>>
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> I have had good success with the ThinkPad 760ED which has a P133 
> processor.  The only problem I had was with sound. (It uses a 
> proprietary chipset which emulates a soundblaster, once the DOS 
> drivers are loaded).  On some laptops I have had problems with the 
> video card detection, which, I assume, could be fixed by specifiying a 
> server in lts.conf
>
> - gustav
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For what it's worth, I have tested a similar IBM laptop, and had trouble 
with the sound. I was able to get it running in OpenBSD. It worked with 
no configuration on my part. That laptop makes a decent chubby client.

Angus.