[K12OSN] Wireless card for ltsp

Julius Szelagiewicz julius at turtle.com
Fri Oct 20 15:49:48 UTC 2006


On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Petre Scheie wrote:

> Wireless clients don't really work:
>
> -Wireless doesn't have the bandwidth to support more than a few clients and even then
> the performance is erratic.
>
> -People usually want wireless laptops, but to talk to the wireless card in the PCMCIA
> slots, there needs to be a kernel present; but you don't have a kernel yet, so how do
> the system talk to the PCMCIA slots?  It's a catch-22 stemming from the PC architecture.
>
> -Desktop wireless can sort of be done, by using regular ethernet cards in the client
> wired to a WAP that connects to another WAP and then to the server.  But you still have
> the bandwidth problems mentioned above, so this doesn't scale up very well.
>
> Search the archives of this mailing list and the LTSP list.  A kernel was made to work a
> few years ago that could be booted from a floppy for one or two cards, but it hasn't
> been maintained because of the problems booting over wireless, so you don't get any of
> the modern features like Local Device Access.  In short, your time would be better spent
> looking for a different approach.
>
> Petre
>
>
> Nataraj S Narayan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Please suggest a Wireless NIC which will work with LTSP client. Is
> > Realtek OK?
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Nataraj
> >
There is a way to make wireless work for LTSP clients. The solution is
trivial, but not cheap: Netgear travel router. It comes with 2 ethernet
ports and wireless connectivity. You can connect a terminal to ethernet
port and the router transfers data over wireless. Bandwidth is an issue,
since G is not all that fast, but it is perfectly acceptable for a few
terminals.
julius




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