[K12OSN] old laptops

[Mikko Jordman]

Gustav J Kramer wrote:

> Sudev Barar wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 14:02, Jeff Zidek wrote:
>>
>>> Do they have cdroms?  One way would be to download the pxes iso and 
>>> make
>>> bootable cdroms.  Then just have the click on the icon to boot from 
>>> a LTSP
>>> server.   Why not download the  iso and try it out.  Jeff Zidek
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
>>> Behalf Of Ascension Tech
>>> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:21 PM
>>> To: Support list for opensource software in schools.
>>> Subject: [K12OSN] old laptops
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm getting a lot of old laptops lately with no ethernet.  Can anyone
>>> recommend a pcmcia ethernet card that boots into k12ltsp with pxe,
>>> etherboot or a pxes cd?  I tried a D-Link DFE-690txd because it's
>>> based on the Realtek, but no joy.
>>
>>
>>
>> Try wireless package for booting off PCMCIA card ethernet. Howto on the
>> LTSP documentation pages. Works with 3Com cards and no reason why it
>> should not with others. AFAIK this is independent of type of card
>> (chipset)
>
> I've also had success with the wireless package using Linksys PCMCIA 
> cards, both those with a dongle and those with the built in ethernet 
> jack.  I believe the model was LNE-100, or LNE-100TX.
>
>
Works fine for me. And, you probably have small(?) HD's on those 
laptops. So you can put the wireless_ltsp on on hard disk and make 
booting very easy and a lot faster without any diskettes. I did that 
because my laptops did not have any FD. I put local linux and 
wireless_ltsp on HD and then booting with LILO. Not necessary, but I 
wanted to make those laptops working also when not connected to network.

mikkoj

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