Hi all, Apologies if this topic has been talked to death; please direct me to eulogy if that is the case :->
I was wondering what the state of the art is on booting ltsp thin clients via a wireless nic? We've had an ever increasing number of request for laptops inside the classroom, as a supplement to the labs that we have. Essentially every classroom is now a potential lab space. We have a enterprise type wireless infrastructure at two of our schools that are A/B/G/N capable. I see that one of the older edubuntu faq's doesn't hold out much hope: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#Can_I_set_up_LTSP_over_a_wireless_connection.3F However time has passed so maybe it's worth talking about again. When I think about doing this it seems that the laptops would: - have to have a small os on disk/cd/floppy with drivers for the wifi card. It seems like the etherboot project has been working on wireless support http://etherboot.org/wiki/wirelessboot. I've never used it, though I used to use the rom-o-matic images on older machines. -The network card would have to be 5Ghz N and the AP's would have to support 5 Ghz N (doesn't look like etherboot project has 5 ghz support) . - That there should be as little traffic as possible after the TC was booted so many apps would go local (OO, Firefox etc) - 30 laptops/400 mbit sec = 13 mbits/sec per client best case, perhaps I am crazy to consider this? - problems with wireless contention, collision etc hopefully handled by decent wireless controller/N spec Google tells me that many folks have asked about this in years past and that it was considered a hair-brained idea. If this is already a solved problem I'd be happy to hear it. Thanks! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
