[K12OSN] Africa Humanitarian & Solar - Need help with IBM 8363 USB version

Steve Hargadon steve.hargadon at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 08:13:47 UTC 2005


Here is a note from my contact installing LTSP in third-world countries:

> That thin client we're having problems with is the IBM 8363 (Netvista
> N2200). It only has USB for keyboard and mouse.  We got the ones that
> had PS2 keyboards and mice going well, but we have 350 of these USB
> ones that were donated to CFSK in Kenya. We want to use them in a
> solar lab that we are designing (since about 1/2 of the High Schools
> in Kenya don't have electricity).  I believe the bios has to be
> flashed so that it doesn't have an IP address "hard wired" into it and
> will look for a DHCP server (K12LTSP).

Does anyone know what to do with these to get them ltsp ready?

Steve

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