[K12OSN] old laptops

Gustav J Kramer gj.kramer at planet.nl
Tue Mar 1 12:39:42 UTC 2005


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.





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