Well this would work if only most laptops came with internal NIC's but i hace PCMCIA
in the PCMCIA case you need to make a bootable floppt distro to get you going ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emile Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp hardware > I am using my laptop with ltsp because it is basically silent without the > drive spinning. I just used lilo to do the inital boot instead of floppy > or boot rom on the nic, then spin the drive down once the system is up. > > My laptop nic is an intel etherexpresspro100 (eepro100 driver) chip on the > motherboard, not a PCMCIA card. I assume though, that if you build your > own kernel including both PCMCIA support and the specific nic in your > card, that the lilo boot will still work right? > > I've attached the beginnings of my draft mini-howto on it in case it's > useful. > > -emile > > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Chris wrote: > > > Soulds like a good idea, my next challenge is to test out a laptop on LTSP > > > > problem is there are no boot roms for my PCMCIA card so what you need to do > > is build a kernel with PCMCIA and the modules for your NIC and place them in > > the modules dir , you then need a small floppy distro of linux to boot the > > clients from so they can mount the NFS and boot LTSP > > > > Im not 100 % sure of the details but I am going to give mine a shot and > > maybe add a contrib of how to do this > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Alan C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 3:50 PM > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] ltsp hardware > > > > > > > > > > Is anyone compiling a list of good hardware for ltsp? > > > Specifically PCI and PCMCIA network cards, and flash disks for > > non-bootable cards. > > > Some posts to Ltsp-discuss suggest that some kit is a bit iffy, and there > > has been some negative press about linux and tulip cards. > > > I plan to use a notebooks as terminals, and Debian on the server. > > > I'm just starting off so I'd like to cut my teeth on something that's > > known to work. > > > Thanks > > > Alan > > > > > > > > > > > > Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. > > > http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > > 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.openprojects.net > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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.openprojects.net > > > _____________________________________________________________________ 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.openprojects.net
