[K12OSN] local devices - PCMCIA

Peter Scheie peter at scheie.homedns.org
Thu May 17 01:57:26 UTC 2007


Go to #ltsp on irc.freenode.net and ask.  Most of the LTSP devs hang out 
there.  They can tell you how hard (or not) it would be.

Rob Owens wrote:
> I've read that wiki page.  I think I'm way out of my league trying to
> create new udev rules and scripts, but I'm willing to give it a try.
> This particular PCMCIA card reader hooks into the PCI bus.  It is
> designed to read a PCMCIA memory card.  Could
> someone smarter than me tell me which rule/script would be the most
> appropriate to base my custom script upon?  Or is this a lost cause?
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:36:09PM -0500, Peter Scheie wrote:
>> Read http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/LTSP-42-LocalDev
>> and follow the link to the doc on ltspfs.
>>
>> Why do your users want to use the local drives for storage?  The whole 
>> point of thin clients is that everything is stored on the server so the 
>> admin (you) only have to worry about one machine, and the users can 
>> login on any client and have their files be present.  The Windows/Mac 
>> "everyone has a full computer system" paradigm is a terrible 
>> architecture in this respect, wasteful, and expensive.  What is it the 
>> users think using the local disk will do for them?
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> Rob Owens wrote:
>>> Could someone point me to documentation on how the local devices work in
>>> LTSP 4.2?  I really need to try getting this local PCMCIA reader work.  
>>>
>>> And has anybody used local hard drives for storage?  I think it's kinda
>>> pointless, but some of my users are asking me if it can be done.
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:28:59PM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>>>> I have a potential thin client machine (a P3 desktop) that has a PCMCIA
>>>> card reader in it.  Is it possible for me to get this working as a local
>>>> device?  It's a Texas Inst. PCI-1225 Cardbus Controller. 
>>>>
>>>> I've seen writeups where people got this working ok under Linux, but I
>>>> didn't find anything related to LTSP or thin clients.  Do I need to
>>>> specify a module to load?  Do I need to add something special to the
>>>> local devices system?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using K12LTSP 5.0.0EL (LTSP 4.2)
>>>>
>>>> -Rob
>>>>
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