Question:
I have access to dozens of WYSE Winterm 2310SE at a next to nothing price tag. The
2310SE is a thin-client developed in April, 1998 which was designed to be used with a
Citrix MetaFrame system using the Citrix ICA 3.0 protocol. It does not support
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). The specs of this machine are below.
My question is can I put these to use as a Linux TSP workstation? Can the bootrom
image be loaded onto a PC card and override the BIOS chip? Can another BIOS chip be
created with the bootrom image already on it? Does the integrated Crystal LAN CS8900
have a bootrom? If not, can it be altered to allow for one?
Or, if the hardware can't be altered, can a Linux machine be designed to serve the ICA
3 protocol, serving to the workstations, these Winterms? Can such a program be
written 1) moderately quickly and 2) without licensing problems?
In short, can this device be used for anything but what it was intended to be used
for? I don't like the idea of getting Windows NT TSE 4.0 or Windows 2000 Advanced
along with Citrix MetaFrame or WinFrame, both because of the *extreme* price tag and
the lack of open source. I also don't like the idea of using a VT220 termial.
Hardware
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CPU: AMD SC400 486/66
RAM: EDO DRAM 8MB
Video Board: Integrated Cirrus Logic CL-GD5440 (VL-Bus)
VRAM: 1MB DRAM
Chipset: VIA-II VT82C42V
BIOS: Wyse 2.64J2
Max Res: 1024 x 768 via VESA standard port
Bit Depth: 8-bit (at max res)
NIC: Integrated Crystal LAN CS8900 (10BaseT)
Boot Protocol: DHCP
Power Supply: 20 W
1 Parallel port, bidirectional
2 Serial ports, high-speed
1 Mouse port
PCMCIA Type II slot
Photographs of the ports, CPU, motherboard and chassis can be found at:
http://members.uarc.com/eward/2310se.pdf
The BIOS chip can store the IP address of the server and can configure different
connection setups. It supposedly has VT220, VT100 and VT52 emulations built into the
BIOS, but I don't see how to access them. The BIOS chip looks removeable, but I can't
remove it. I'd assume that the ICA Client (around 200K) is on the BIOS chip, but I
don't know enough about these things to be sure.
Thanks in advance,
Eric Ward
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