Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp

2006-01-18 Thread Kurt Bechstein
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:55 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Kurt, > > I know that WEP worked when I first created the wireless package for > ltsp. I haven't looked at it in such a long time, i'm not sure why it > wouldn't be working now. Yep, it did work. Just needed to specify the key in the wi

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp

2006-01-16 Thread Jim McQuillan
Kurt, I know that WEP worked when I first created the wireless package for ltsp. I haven't looked at it in such a long time, i'm not sure why it wouldn't be working now. To make it work from a cdrom, you'd have to modify the initrd file. it's setup to read from a harddisk or floppy, but it

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp

2006-01-16 Thread Kurt Bechstein
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 13:21 -0500, Joe Auerbach wrote: > This will not be at all helpful to you, but I'm curious about what that > does to your wireless internet connection? it seems to me that with a > bunch of OS info going across the network your actual internet > connections would suffer ba

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp

2006-01-16 Thread Joe Auerbach
This will not be at all helpful to you, but I'm curious about what that does to your wireless internet connection? it seems to me that with a bunch of OS info going across the network your actual internet connections would suffer baddly. Do you find that's the case? I could be wrong. Kurt

[Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp

2006-01-16 Thread Kurt Bechstein
I'm working on getting some wireless laptops booting using the wireless_ltsp package. So far I've got them booting up just fine and thing actually don't work too badly over 802.11b. I mean it is slower but I expected as much. Anyways, along the way I've discovered a couple of issues. The firs

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-17 Thread Simon Langley
Christian Schmidt wrote: Simon Langley wrote: I mentioned in an earlier email that I was thinking of trying to use a laptop as a wireless LTSP client by connecting the ethernet port on the laptop to a cheap wireless AP. I used to run LTSP over a wireless 11g network using a Linksys box tha

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-15 Thread Christian Schmidt
Simon Langley wrote: I mentioned in an earlier email that I was thinking of trying to use a laptop as a wireless LTSP client by connecting the ethernet port on the laptop to a cheap wireless AP. I used to run LTSP over a wireless 11g network using a Linksys box that acts as a hub between ether

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-07 Thread Simon Langley
Jason Clinton wrote: Sorry if this doesn't get threaded correctly, I just joined the list and had to copy-paste the subject to reply. I'd like to add that its possible to use boot disks or CD-ROM's that are configured with support for the particular wireless card in a laptop in order to boot

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-07 Thread Simon Langley
Jim McQuillan wrote: Simon, That's fantastic news !!! That reminds me of a new D-Link access point that I picked up. If you haven't seen the DWL-G730AP, you should check it out. It's a tiny thing that is made for travelling. The idea is you'd keep it in your suitcase, and then use it at hote

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-07 Thread Jason Clinton
Sorry if this doesn't get threaded correctly, I just joined the list and had to copy-paste the subject to reply. I'd like to add that its possible to use boot disks or CD-ROM's that are configured with support for the particular wireless card in a laptop in order to boot to an LTSP server. This

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-06 Thread Jim McQuillan
Simon, That's fantastic news !!! That reminds me of a new D-Link access point that I picked up. If you haven't seen the DWL-G730AP, you should check it out. It's a tiny thing that is made for travelling. The idea is you'd keep it in your suitcase, and then use it at hotels that offer highspeed

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP client with two APs - works fine

2005-09-06 Thread Simon Langley
I mentioned in an earlier email that I was thinking of trying to use a laptop as a wireless LTSP client by connecting the ethernet port on the laptop to a cheap wireless AP. I couldn't connect this AP wirelessly to my normal 802.11g AP because that is a router not a bridge so it didn't forward DH

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2005-06-17 Thread Tom Allison
I ask about this off and on, more off lately because my notebook has been rather sick. IIRC in order to use Wireless LTSP I have to do a hard disk installation of LTSP so I can add in all the necessary drivers for the Wireless NIC. Is there some docs on doing this with the current version of LTS

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP without floppy disk

2004-07-27 Thread Kalev Lember
Timothy Legge :: I recently tested Etherboot with the Dlink DWL-520 prism2 based pci card. It worked fine. It is relatively easy to use Etherboot for the card even though there is no rom socket on the card but it will cost you an extra realtec 8139 card for each wireless card. You can load the E

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP without floppy disk

2004-07-27 Thread Timothy Legge
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 22:15, Brent Roberts wrote: > Hello all. I am wondering about using LTSP with a 802.11b wireless NIC, but > without a floppy drive. As I understand it, one cannot use etherboot when > using a wireless card (what about PXE?), so a kernel must be on a local > storage device

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP without floppy disk

2004-07-26 Thread Brent Roberts
Hello all. I am wondering about using LTSP with a 802.11b wireless NIC, but without a floppy drive. As I understand it, one cannot use etherboot when using a wireless card (what about PXE?), so a kernel must be on a local storage device. I would like to use a Compact Flash as a local memory

[Ltsp-discuss] wireless ltsp and LEAP

2004-04-28 Thread David Howdle
All, Is it possible to use LEAP with wireless ltsp? If so, how is it implemented? Thanks David Howdle OPSM Group Systems Support Sydney Australia (02) 9334 2666 0419 626 794 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP & WEP

2004-04-08 Thread jam
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, David Howdle wrote: > All, > > Once WEP is enabled on the access point is it then simply a matter of > putting the HEX key in wireless.cfg like so: > > KEY = "xx" I'm not sure of the exact format of the wireless key. You might need to separate the pa

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP & WEP

2004-04-07 Thread David Howdle
All, Once WEP is enabled on the access point is it then simply a matter of putting the HEX key in wireless.cfg like so: KEY = "xx" Thanks David Howdle OPSM Group Systems Support Sydney Australia (02) 9334 2666 0419 626 794 --

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-28 Thread pedro noticioso
Send it all to me, Id like to make a very detailed howto on the matter because there arent many specific docs arround. thanks! --- alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pedro noticioso wrote: > > > */alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > > > Cool, now that you mention it, when I started my > ltsp

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-28 Thread alvin
pedro noticioso wrote: */alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: Cool, now that you mention it, when I started my ltsp project, intended to still use a few recycled hard drives from the old machines and actually got frustrated because of my poor ability to actually install a small linux kernel/ini

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-26 Thread Brian Fahrlander
On 26 Nov 2002 09:31:36 -0600, "Baeseman, Clifford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snipped] > The last line in the inittab is set as follows... > x:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query your.terminal.server > > We have found this to be the easiest possible way to install client > machines. It eliminat

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-26 Thread Baeseman, Clifford
I can tell you how we do our's which is extremely simple We run redhat on the client disk which allows us to do a redhat kick start install for doing a large amount of similar clients at the same time. Kickstart loads a minimum installation to the hard drive and a post install script changes t

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-26 Thread pedro noticioso
alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool, now that you mention it, when I started my ltsp project, intended to still use a few recycled hard drives from the old machines and actually got frustrated because of my poor ability to actually install a small linux kernel/initrd with lilo and eb to a small p

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-24 Thread 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,

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-23 Thread jam
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002, pedro noticioso wrote: > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Peter, > > 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? We

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-23 Thread pedro noticioso
--- [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 > cu

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-21 Thread Baeseman, Clifford
We have in fact done wireless clients but I am not sure about that WMP11 card. I have heard of people having a ton of troubles getting those to work with linux. We use a cisco 350 PCI and or a linksys WET 11 on the linux clients. The WET11 is my personal favorite since it provides a straight ethern

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-20 Thread jam
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

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-20 Thread Peter Resciniti
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 whe

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless LTSP

2002-11-20 Thread Peter Resciniti
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 whe

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp

2001-10-11 Thread David Anders
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:16 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp > > My goal is to get a system running wireless. > Has anyone made any progress on this? > When I asked about this before, Jim O'Quinn said he was interested, > Jim McQ said he was wor

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp

2001-10-11 Thread Jim McQuillan
Alan, A wireless workstation isn't really an LTSP issue, it's a Booting issue. etherboot doesn't support pcmcia. As far as I know, PXE doesn't support it either. So, how do you get a kernel into the workstation when you can't network boot it ? Basically, either with a floppy, or a flash disk

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp

2001-10-11 Thread Chris
try nor would I waste my money on a wireless network it is no good IMHO heh - Original Message - From: "Alan C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 3:16 AM Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp > > My goal is to get a sy

[Ltsp-discuss] Wireless ltsp

2001-10-11 Thread Alan C
My goal is to get a system running wireless. Has anyone made any progress on this? When I asked about this before, Jim O'Quinn said he was interested, Jim McQ said he was working on it, and recently David Anders said he had got it working, albeit with some problems, over a wavelan point-to-poi