[K12OSN] K12LTSP wireless?

[Dan Hopson]

OK...I guess what I am wanting to do is have a wireless NIC only on eth0 and 
wireless NICs in the terminal machines...is this feasible with 25 terminals?

Dan.


>From: Petre Scheie <petre at maltzen.net>
>Reply-To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." 
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>To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: [K12OSN] K12LTSP wireless?
>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:53:48 -0600
>
>Perhaps but not necessarily; there are a lot of cards out there.  Since you 
>reference eth0 and eth1, are you thinking of putting wireless cards in the 
>server?  I see two problems with that plan: 1) wireless bandwidth, which is 
>shared, won't handle many client connections before it gets saturated; 2) 
>running a wireless card in the server suggests you want to try wireless 
>clients, which isn't very feasible at this point.  A package was made a 
>year or two ago that would work with some wireless client cards, but the 
>list is quite short.  It's kind of a catch-22: to talk to the wireless 
>card, there has to be support for PCMCIA, but to do that you have to have a 
>kernel loaded, but to load a kernel you have to have networking working 
>which means supporting PCMCIA, and so on.
>
>More information on what you want to do would be helpful.  Tell us what you 
>have in mind.
>
>Petre
>
>Dan Hopson wrote:
>>I am just getting started with Linux networking.  Will K12LTSP work with 
>>all wireless NICs on both eth0 and eth1?
>>
>>Thanks, Dan.
>>
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