[K12OSN] Wireless TC assistance
Kent Schumacher
kent at structural-wood.com
Mon Jan 16 19:17:30 UTC 2012
For what it's worth, I've played around with hooking a terminal to a
wireless bridge. I was able to achieve a usable wireless LTSP terminal
in that configuration. As I remember it, it wasn't too bad to use from
a speed perspective.
Back then a bridge cost $80 and was about the size of two decks of cards
- I have no idea what a bridge would look like or cost today.
On 01/16/2012 01:12 PM, Support list for open source software in
schools. wrote:
> That would work, putting the boot parts and minimal os on a usb stick
> then connecting to ltsp for users but that stops being ltsp
> alltogether. Ltsp just isnt wireless able for a simple reason no pxe in
> wireless cards, and i doubt there will ever be. Anyway cabling allows
> for usable fast gigabit clients and its not the end of the world to rely
> on cabling
>
> On Jan 14, 2012 6:26 PM, "Sergio Chaves" <sergio.chaves at gmail.com
> <mailto:sergio.chaves at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Barry,
>
> I downloaded this file from the Ubuntu list long ago.
> I never tried it myself but others report that have had success with it.
> Maybe with a little tweak you can make it work :-)
>
> Please let us know if you can make it work in K12
>
> Sergio
>
> On 01/14/2012 08:37 AM, Barry R Cisna wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone on list here know of,and have tried any minimal
> linux distro
> that merely will boot a tc for example search for any available
> open AP,
> connect ,and then continue to boot to serverxyz as specified in the
> config?
>
> I have posted this before but no real "this works out of the box'
> responses. At this point in order to use k12linux/k12ltsp I have
> to have
> wireless a possible even if throughput will be marginal. Without
> this in
> a school setting I feel k12linux/k12ltsp is not a viable/possible
> alternative.
>
> I was hoping someone at this point(much smarter than I) would
> have been
> able to dump some minimal boot code,even into a bios ,on top of
> pxe, to
> make this happen,,as an option in bios settings of the TC for
> example.
>
> After having messed a few minutes with an NComputing TC this is
> basically what they use, albeit to a wired network to come up to a
> splash screen to set the server you would like to connect to. I
> guess
> very much the same as k12linux/k12ltsp, bottom line ,only at
> bios level.
>
> We do have several TC's that I can burn a minimal ' wireless bootup
> distro' onto SD cards to test with.
>
> Thank You,
> Barry
>
>
>
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