[K12OSN] How to make wireless_ltsp

[Petre Scheie]

I, too, followed the wiki, but unfortunately my card, a Cisco Aironet 350, while 
seemingly recognized by the wireless floppy, gave a bunch of unexpected responses and 
wouldn't finish booting.  (The Knoppix method works, which is still impressive).  The 
README in the wireless package mentions that it works only with a small number of 
wireless cards.  Is this limitation because of the use of a 2.4.x kernel which didn't 
have as much support for wireless cards as does 2.6.x?  In other words, would there be 
broader support for various wireless cards if we could use a 2.6 kernel on the floppy? 
As I understand it, the 2.6 kernel is too big to fit on a floppy.  Would building a 
custom kernel, with support for the particular card compiled in, and using that on the 
floppy, work?

Petre

Jim McQuillan wrote:
> Shawn,
> 
> I've created a wiki page for the old LTSP wireless package, and i've
> included the kernel modules tarball on that page.
> 
> here's the link:
> 
>   http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WirelessLtsp
> 
> Jim McQuillan
> jam at Ltsp.org
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Shawn Powers wrote:
> 
> 
>>I can't seem to find the kernel for what is on the wireless_ltsp floppy (to
>>put the modules on the server)
>>
>>What is the process to make a new version of that floppy?  Right now, I'm
>>using knoppix, and running X -query to make my old half-dead laptop a
>>not-so-thin client, but I'd like to boot directly (ideally so sound would work
>>as well)
>>
>>Jim, or anyone else -- can you point me in the direction of documentation that
>>might steer me correctly?
>>
>>(My PCMCIA wired card is on the short list of working cards, and the laptop
>>does boot with the old version)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>-Shawn
>>
>>
>>
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