Jim Great wireless news.....
However, I use a Linksys USB wireless adapter.... Any hope of you clever chaps looking at implementing this? There is a lot of USB wireless and other stuff out there (eg most palm devices these days come with USB cradles ...) Best John ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 8:40 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] New LTSP Kernel pkg and wireless-ltsp available > Late Sunday night, I put a new LTSP kernel package > on the LTSP download page. This was labeled ltsp_kernel_3.0.2. > It had one small problem tho, the initrd was missing the hostname > command. This caused the workstation to be unable to get > the correct entries from the lts.conf file. > > So, late last night, I released ltsp_kernel_3.0.3, which does > have the hostname command. Sorry for any inconvenience this > may have caused people who got the bad package. According to > the Sourceforge stats, it was only 6 people. > > Now, for the good news: > > 1) The new kernel package contains some fixes to the /linuxrc > script that will allow any IO or IRQ options to always be > passed to the NIC module. Previously, only a few select > NIC modules would get the information. > > 2) I changed the /linuxrc script to use modprobe instead of insmod. > This causes it to automatically figure out if the 8390.o module > is required. Previously, it was only loaded for a few select > NIC modules. > > 3) WIRELESS !!! Yes, that's right, we now support wireless LTSP > cards. Actually, not with this kernel pkg, but with the > wireless-ltsp package that is also available for download. > I had to build a new kernel for PCMCIA support, so I decided > it was a good time to release the new standard kernel as > well. > > 4) A new ltsp_initrd_kit is also available, which contains the > compiled kernels and the initrd images so you can piece them > together as you wish, for PXE booting or other booting methods. > And, I've included the NFS-swap patch and the LPP patch. > > > As a side benefit to adding support for wireless cards, we also > now have support for any PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet cards (wired) > as well. When I say 'any', I mean if it is supported by the > pcmcia-cs-3.1.33 package in Linux. > > But, keep in mind, we are not loading the kernel via the network. > Etherboot doesn't (yet) support pcmcia cards. So, you need to > load the kernel locally. That is, from floppy disk, hard disk or > flash disk. Included in the wireless-ltsp package is a floppy > image that can be dd'ed directly to a floppy. > > If you want to know how to put the kernel and initrd on a flash > disk, please contact me, either via email or on the #ltsp IRC > channel. > > Also, the kernel version is still 2.4.9. The reason for that > is that is the only version for which there is a NFS-Swap patch > and the LPP patch. As soon as patches for the 2.4.18 kernels > become available, I'll work on updating to that version. > > > So, the new packages are: > > ltsp_kernel-3.0.2-0.i386.rpm > ltsp_kernel-3.0.2.i386.tgz > ltsp_initrd_kit-3.0.3.i386.tgz > wireless_ltsp-3.0.2-i386.tgz > > > So, have fun with the new stuff. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
