I mentioned in an earlier email that I was thinking of trying to use a laptop as a wireless LTSP client by connecting the ethernet port on the laptop to a cheap wireless AP.
I couldn't connect this AP wirelessly to my normal 802.11g AP because that is a router not a bridge so it didn't forward DHCP requests to my LTSP server. Since I had two other APs, I just connected an 802.11g bridge (in client mode) to the laptop and the other bridge to my main switch which is connected to another switch where the LTSP server sits (so the second bridge and the server are on the same subnet). These two APs were set up with a different SSID to my main wireless network. I turned the laptop's AP, waited for a few seconds to allow it to associate with the other AP, then I turned the laptop on. Everything just worked straight away. It was exactly the same as when the laptop was plugged directly into my main switch (except a bit slower). I had half expected getting this to work to take ages, but it was surprisingly easy. The main drawback is that I am now using three wireless APs which is rather over the top for such a small setup, but I already had them so it is a reasonable solution for me. If your main AP were a bridge onto the same subnet as your LTSP server and you had one of the really small wireless ethernet bridges (like this one: http://usa.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-330g/overview.HTM I don't know if it's any good but it looks nifty), this would be a reasonable solution to the problem of wireless LTSP clients. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
