Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

[alvin]

pedro noticioso wrote:

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Peter,

The wireless thing at Linux World didn't happen.

We were there, and the Etherboot guys were there,
but
we were all so swamped the entire time, that we just
never
got a chance to give it a try.
I'd like to work on PCI wireless cards, but
currently,
there are just way too many things that I should be
working
on instead.

If someone is interested in doing this, I think it
should be a matter
of modifying the initrd to include the NIC module,
and finding
the correct Etherboot image to put on a floppy.

That should be enough to get it booting.

Then, the next trick would be to figure out how to
configure
features, such as WEP and ESSID.

This raises a good question, is the current lts 3
secure enough to add wireless laptops, or should I
just wait for something to lower the risk?

Jim McQuillan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Peter Resciniti wrote:

I am looking to set up an machine with a wireless

PCI card

so that it can be an LTSP workstation. The card is

a Linksys WMP 11 card for

a workstaiton (it is a PCI card not a PCMCIA card

for a laptop).

I have a Linksys Wireless Access Point (the WAP

11). I can hook the client

up to my network when it is running
windows. This was very easy to setup.

Now I want to make this client a LTSP workstation.

There

is a linux driver for this wireless PCI card and I

have

downloaded it (but I have not yet installed it).In

addition, I believe this

card supports the Prism standard (I think that is

the name) which is preatty

common among wireless network cards these days.

I have downloaded the LTSP wireless file (3.0.5)

and I

created a boot diskette with it. I did not think

this

method would work since it seems most of the

effort has

been put into support PCMCIA cards. However, I

thought I

would just give it a shot. It did not work. The

error I got was a DHCP error

saying either my DHCP server was not
working or there was something wrong with my

driver for

the network card.

I noticed a few entries on the LTSP User Mailing

list talking about a trade

show that was to occur this summer and talking

about setting up a wireless

workstation (with a PCI card) and showing this off

at the tradeshow.

It seemed several people were interested in

setting up this demo. However, I

have not seen anything since regarding this

solution.

Thus, I am wondering what happened at the trade

show and whether anyone has

put together an LTSP package that will support

Wireless PCI cards.

I really hope I can download a boot image that

will work with my setup.

Any help in this regard would be greatly

appreciated.

Peter

I just finished setting up an installation to do this.

I used IDE flash disks and placed the kernel/initrd on the disk and boot from there. The whole process is still quite rough and need some work yet but what I did was take the code for the pcmcia wireless stuff and started hacking at it with a very blunt axe.

We are using link encription and MAC address filtering on the wireless connections. The wireless link is also isolated from the network as a whole so that if the link is cracked then they still have to get past the servers firewalling. This should stop all but the most serious hackers like the NSA,CIA,KGB.... and if those boys are after us we are just so screwed ;)

As a side note booting X over a wireless link takes a couple of minutes. It is not nearly as fast as a hard wired link even with the wireless link running at 11Mbits.

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Interlink Connectivity || fax: (416)785-3668
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