On Sat, 12 May 2007, David Ally wrote: > Has anyone implemented and able to configure Edubuntu server to serve > thin clients with wireless network interface cards?
I always imagined this would not be possible. HOwevere, I came across a guy a while back who mentioned how he was working on doing exactly this. I can't recall his name or the place I found it. However, if you look at the rom-o-matic etherboot images there is suport in there for the prism2 chipset which as I understand it is only used in wireless. http://rom-o-matic.net/5.4.3/ So, it's possible you could make an etherboot floppy for a machine with a prism2 wifi card. I haven't done this, but it seems possible. I presume you'd have to run an open unecncrypted network and I imagine it would be preferable if there were only one essid visible. It might be worth a go anyway. Bear in mind you must carefully pick your wifi card. If you get anywhere with this I'd be really interested to hear about it. > Will using any of the other booting methods apart from pxe booting be > able to activate the wireless devices and able to load the necessary > images on the thin clients? You should be able to put together a base system (moreorless equivalent to the edubuntu chroot) on a machine which then starts ldm and connects to the server as a thin client does. That's hardly what you'd call network booting though. Beyond that I'd say you're looking at something like the above. A more straightforward possibility is to find a cheap supplier of wireless access points. As they will have an ethernet interface, you can plug an ordinary PXE network card into one. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
