Simon, That's fantastic news !!!
That reminds me of a new D-Link access point that I picked up. If you haven't seen the DWL-G730AP, you should check it out. It's a tiny thing that is made for travelling. The idea is you'd keep it in your suitcase, and then use it at hotels that offer highspeed broadband, but not wireless. You plug this thing into the ethernet, and instantly, your hotel room has wireless internet. It's got a switch on it, to select Router, AP or Client. It also has a usb power cable, so you can power the device from the USB port, rather than take up a precious power outlet in a hotel room. I'm mentioning this, because it could actually work very well for making wireless thin clients. Just take a standard thin client, and plug this d-link device in, to make it a wireless thin client. I think it even included a piece of double-stick tape, to tape that sucker to the side or back of the thin client. And, it's 802.11b/g, so it should be fast enough too. I have one and i've used it in a hotel room, but i've not had the time to give it a try on a thin client yet. If anyone's interested, here's the link: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=346 Simon, if you could add your notes to the LTSP wiki, that'd be great. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Simon Langley wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- 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
