[K12OSN] Thin client question

[jam at mcquil.com]

On Fri, 14 May 2004, Brian P. Skahan wrote:

> Is there a major reason to use the $34 linksys NIC from
> disklessworkstations over the $20 aopen?

Nope.

the Aopen card is rtl8139 based, the Linksys is tulip based.
Both chipsets are popular, both work well for thin clients.

We can offer the Aopen at such a low price, because we get them directly 
from Aopen, with no middle-men.  So, we can pass the savings on to the 
customer.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



> 
> -Brian
> 
> On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 20:03 -0400, Brian Chase wrote:
> > They should make great LTSP clients, just replace the NIC's with one's 
> > that have the etherboot roms already on them so they'll boot straight 
> > into LTSP and you want have to make special floppies for each machine (a 
> > maintenance nightmare,IMHO).  Here's the link to the one's I'd recommend:
> > 
> > http://www.disklessworkstations.com/cgi-bin/web/100003.html?id=wjVnQp65
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Richard K. Ingalls wrote:
> > 
> > > Justin Paulsen wrote:
> > >
> > >> I have a lab full of Gateway 2000 p5-133 machines with 32 MB ram, Sound
> > >> Blaster 16 sound cards, 10/100 nics and old ati video cards.
> > >>
> > >> The memory can't be upgraded, how would these work for LTSP?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >>
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