[K12OSN] Laptop as roving standalone and thin client

[ssanders at coin.org]

I am trying to put together a laptop for use as a standalone laptop and
as a thin client. having a local distro is easy enough, and scripts to
rsync the /home back/forth isn't a problem. 

What's the best way to integrate the laptop as a thin client? It's an
old IBM A21 with an integral network jack, but neither it's 'network
boot' choice nor universal boot floppies will pick up the network
properly. Other network boot PCs work on the same K12LTSP 4.4.2 server.

Wireless would be nice, but I understand the problems of getting it's
PCMCIA wifi cards to init first to network boot. This would be the only
wireless client, so it could probably suffer by on wifi's bandwidth.

What works: after it's on the LTSP network with either wired or wifi,
issue an init 1  then X -query server.

I have the old K12LTSP wifi boot floppy (and the Orinoco/Hermes card it
needs), but it's a rather low-power NIC.

Is there a better way to use the laptop for this?

TIA
ss