On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 20:17, Michael Spiceland wrote:
> Have any of you ever tried this with ltsp?  It is the coolest looking thin 
> client that I've seen.
> 

I just picked one up for this very purpose.  Mine runs NTe, so I can't
comment on the WinCE ones.  The hardware is pretty cool, but I'm not
having much luck getting it running (I have admittedly not spent much
time with it yet).  The NTe version comes with an "Upgrade Image"
utility which Hpaq's customer support tells me can be used to load
arbitrary firmware.  I haven't poked at it enough to see if this is
really true or not.  There are a few versions of this that have PXE
installed.  My guess is that if you can pick one of these versions up it
should be a slam dunk.


> 
> I found one on ebay and thought about getting it.  It seems to run a national 
> semiconductor processor (GX1) just like the IBM NetVista clients.  Is this an 
> x86 compatable processor?  It looks like it runs Windows CE out of the box.  


Yes it is x86 compatible.  I believe the Jammin 125 uses it too.  Lots
of embedded stuff running linux use it too, so base level compatibilty
should be fine.  The NIC is a national DP83815 which should work fine
with etherboot. 

> Before I started bidding, I wanted to make sure I could get Linux (or at 
> least a boot rom) on this thing.

You won't have much luck with a boot rom.  I took mine apart and the
only way you are going to get a boot rom on board is with a soldering
iron...  You might take a look at www.wyse.com too, the clients are
really just rebadged Wyse 8235LE's.

I'll post more if I make any progress.



-- 
Tad Truex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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