Understand. Have been using wireless LTSP on laptops with Cisco Aironet cards up until now and just investigating the possibility of moving to Centrino.
>>> Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/02/06 2:19:44 pm >>> Well, it takes more than a driver. you need the firmware, and you need to put the kernel on something, along with an initrd. And, you need some code to detect and initialize the wireless nic, and set the parameters, such as essid, wep keys, etc. Jim. David Howdle wrote: > Thanks. So in theory, I could compile Centrino wireless support into the > wireless LTSP kernel. > > >>>> Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/02/06 1:57:07 pm >>> >>>> > Well, Centrino wireless comes with the same network booting problems > that all the other wireless chipsets do. You can't boot via the > wireless nic. You have to have a kernel stored locally to boot from. > > The other big problem is we aren't allowed to re-distribute the > firmware, so we can't really make a nice neat package that can be burned > to a cdrom or usb memory stick. > > It would be nice if someone whipped up a script that combines the > kernel, initrd and proprietary firmware. That way, we don't need to > distribute the proprietary stuff. We'd just leave it up to the end user > or sysadmin to do it. > > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > David Howdle wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Apologies. Centrino wireless. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >>>>> Jim McQuillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/02/06 1:49:19 pm >>> >>>>> >>>>> >> David, >> >> Centrino what ? >> >> Are you talking about Centrino wireless? or are you talking about other >> features of the centrino chipset, like the Pentium-M ? >> >> Jim McQuillan >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> >> David Howdle wrote: >> >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> ...just wondering if anyone out there has had a look at using Centrino with >>> LTSP?? >>> >>> Many thanks. >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------- >>> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >>> for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >>> searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >>> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=k&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 >>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>> 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.freenode.net >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files >> for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes >> searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> 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.freenode.net >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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.freenode.net > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
