[K12OSN] old laptops as thin clients

[Gustav J Kramer]

Rob Owens wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting one or two old laptops from
> ebay to use as thin clients.  I don't know much about
> laptops, so are there any gotchas that I have to watch
> out for as far as getting one that will work?  
> 
> I know I need an ethernet port and either a floppy,
> hd, or cdrom (for loading the bootrom), but is there
> anything else?  A pentium should do it, right?  Any
> weird, incompatible hardware to watch out for?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -Rob
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
> http://mail.yahoo.com 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> K12OSN mailing list
> K12OSN at redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn
> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org>
> 
I have had good success with the ThinkPad 760ED which has a P133 
processor.  The only problem I had was with sound. (It uses a 
proprietary chipset which emulates a soundblaster, once the DOS drivers 
are loaded).  On some laptops I have had problems with the video card 
detection, which, I assume, could be fixed by specifiying a server in 
lts.conf

- gustav