[K12OSN] one slow terminal - one fast one.

Sat Aug 6 03:05:34 UTC 2005

Yes, I have seen this.  Many times.

Dell Optiplex GX1's, of which my district has a ton, are known to have 
issues with the BIOS with respect to the built-in NICs.  Depending on 
the BIOS revision, some will stay locked at 10Mbps/HalfDuplex, and 
others won't even PXE boot.  Your slow-responding terminal sounds like 
it likely has the 10Mb/HDX locking issue.  Flashing the Optiplex's BIOS 
has fixed the problem for me every time.

Jim, if you're reading this by any chance, then just in case, it'd be a 
good idea to flash the BIOS's on all the Optiplexes you sell, if you're 
not already doing it.  And I agree with you; they make very fine LTSP 
terminals.  It's a shame my district is throwing them out (hint hint).

--TP

Joshua Sanders wrote:

>I am setting up my 5th K12 terminal system and here in sunny st. croix,
>and i ran into a problem i can't figure out. I was wondering if anyone had
>an idea.
>
>The walls are 4 foot concrete so i concerved on running cable by running
>one or two runs from building to building and then putting a switch in...
>(of couse following the swtich/hub/router guidelines.) I am in the great
>room of this plantation home with two teminals and my wireless laptop
>here. I can log in from my laptop through VNC with no problem. One of the
>terminals works great (speed wise) and the other one loads the graphical
>greeter line by line.  The wireless router, and both terminals are plugged
>into the same switch, and i tried switching the cables from the one that
>is fast to the that is slow to make sure it was not a cable issue.
>
>The Terminals are all are the same model refurbished dells from
>disklessworkstation.com same mouse and key board. I cannot seem to find
>anything different in the .conf, and i am fresh out of ideas. Any one seen
>this before?
>
>Joshua Sanders
>
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