[K12OSN] wireless_ltsp. it works.

[Jim McQuillan]

Wow, that's great to hear somebody still getting use from that old
package.  I really do want to update the package, it's just a matter of
time.

For the USB mouse, you should be able to get that to work. You are
probably just missing the set of kernel modules that match that kernel.
I don't remember which LTSP kernel package included those, but it should
still be on the download page.  Grab that kernel package, and drop the
modules into /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules, and you should be good to go.

Jim McQuillan
jam at Ltsp.org



On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 ssanders at coin.org wrote:

> i had been interested in this for some time. i have an old laptop with
> no HD, (Gateway solo, 300mhz/128meg) that is a little light on ram for
> Knoppix (for KDE anyway, fluxbox is better). Damn Small Linux works
> quite well on it, and i have been able to run VNC to my home/test LTSP
> server and login as a regular LTSP user via wireless. the problem was
> that the VNC window had lower res, wasn't quite big enough, and had to
> scroll.
>
> the readme for the wireless_ltsp says that it was developed around an
> Orinoco/Lucent Silver card... hmm, i happen to have one of those. the
> instructions were quite straightforward, once you are in the extracted
> dir, dd if=floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=10240 produces a boot floppy.
>
> as per the readme, i edited wireless.cfg and put my AP's ESSID, channel
> and WEP key (my AP will do WPA, but this old card will not). the AP is
> Lynksys WRT54g (a nice candidate for reflashing with the OpenWRT project
> and running upgraded linux on, itself), but the old Orinoco/Lucent will
> only do B (which is limited to 11mbit/sec).
>
> it came right up, although it took longer than i am used to in the wired
> clients. it took awhile at the line  Using config file:
> "/tmp/XF86Config.1" while booting. i could see the card's activity light
> was humming away, it came up to the normal X login screen. the USB mouse
> that usually is detected in most Knoppix variants does not work, but
> touchpad is OK. it works well, and the 1024 x 768 is nice for the laptop
> LCD, and no scrolling. screen redraws are quite a bit slower and a lot
> of wifi LTSP clients might be problematic, but it seems to be very
> usable on one.
>
> if you're getting NFS swap errors, you might
> check /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf and see if default is USE_NFS_SWAP=Y.
> if it is on (and you need it) you might make an entry for the laptop
> based on the MAC and turn it off for the laptop.
>
> since the README only mentions Orinoco/Lucent Silver (same as Gold, but
> with lower encryption) and is a couple of  years old, that means that
> the chipset of the cards is Hermes I. you can buy Orinoco Gold Classic
> cards all day long on Ebay now, but the newer ones are made by Proxim
> and are Hermes II chipset. i seriously doubt that it would work (Hermes
> I and II are widely not clones in other applications). for a quick test,
> i stuck in an SMC 2532W-B card i have here, a nice Prism chipset card
> that is widely supported in Linux. it identifies the card correctly, but
> dhclient fails with Kernel Panic (not talking over the wifi, it won't
> get an IP). since most things Linux care more about chipset than
> manufacturer, i would guess that any Hermes I wifi card might work.
>
> in checking, it appears the latest is
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltsp/wireless_ltsp-3.0.5-i386.tgz?
> download still several years old, but it worked for me.
>
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