[K12OSN] Mobile Wireless Lab?

[Jon Spriggs]

It might be worth looking at doing a local install of Thinstation,
which supports some wi-fi cards. From there, you can configure the
thinstation.conf.user to connect via either X or (I understand) X via
SSH (although I'm not 100% sure how that would work...)

Your first shot would be to ensure the wifi cards are supported in the
2.4.28 kernel or 2.6.7 kernel (Thinstation 2.1 and 2.2).

Hope that helps

Jon

On 4/15/05, Casey Woods <casey.woods at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done a search on Wireless LTSP and the information seems a bit
> sketchy and there are a lot of gaps.  I hear rumors of a wireless LTSP
> package but I'm having a tough time finding details or a HOWTO.
> 
> I have a mobile lab that includes 20 laptops.  All are Pentium 2 233s.
> Not sure what brand, but I'm going to guess Dell.  All classrooms are
> wired, so they just plugin an access point, boot up the laptops with
> Win98 and off they go.   Slowly....
> 
> We'd like to convert these laptops to thin clients.  Is it possible to
> net boot with a PCMCIA wireless card?  I believe the cards are 802.11G
> so the network connection should be fast enough if I can get them to
> connect.  Could I install LTSP client software on the local hard drive?
> What are the chances it will work with my network card?  I'll do
> whatever it takes!
> 
> If I can get this to work then they may hold a parade in my honor.
> You're all invited.
> 
> I'd be interested to hear from you if you've got this working.
> 
> Thanks,
> Casey Woods
> Calgary Alberta
> 
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