[K12OSN] local devices - PCMCIA

[Rob Owens]

I've read that wiki page.  I think I'm way out of my league trying to
create new udev rules and scripts, but I'm willing to give it a try.
This particular PCMCIA card reader hooks into the PCI bus.  It is
designed to read a PCMCIA memory card.  Could
someone smarter than me tell me which rule/script would be the most
appropriate to base my custom script upon?  Or is this a lost cause?

-Rob

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:36:09PM -0500, Peter Scheie wrote:
> Read http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev
> and follow the link to the doc on ltspfs.
> 
> Why do your users want to use the local drives for storage?  The whole 
> point of thin clients is that everything is stored on the server so the 
> admin (you) only have to worry about one machine, and the users can 
> login on any client and have their files be present.  The Windows/Mac 
> "everyone has a full computer system" paradigm is a terrible 
> architecture in this respect, wasteful, and expensive.  What is it the 
> users think using the local disk will do for them?
> 
> Peter
> 
> Rob Owens wrote:
> >Could someone point me to documentation on how the local devices work in
> >LTSP 4.2?  I really need to try getting this local PCMCIA reader work.  
> >
> >And has anybody used local hard drives for storage?  I think it's kinda
> >pointless, but some of my users are asking me if it can be done.
> >
> >-Rob
> >
> >On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> >>I have a potential thin client machine (a P3 desktop) that has a PCMCIA
> >>card reader in it.  Is it possible for me to get this working as a local
> >>device?  It's a Texas Inst. PCI-1225 Cardbus Controller. 
> >>
> >>I've seen writeups where people got this working ok under Linux, but I
> >>didn't find anything related to LTSP or thin clients.  Do I need to
> >>specify a module to load?  Do I need to add something special to the
> >>local devices system?
> >>
> >>I'm using K12LTSP 5.0.0EL (LTSP 4.2)
> >>
> >>-Rob
> >>
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