On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 16:55 -0500, Jim McQuillan wrote: > Kurt, > > I know that WEP worked when I first created the wireless package for > ltsp. I haven't looked at it in such a long time, i'm not sure why it > wouldn't be working now.
Yep, it did work. Just needed to specify the key in the wireless.cfg file in the format of xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxx... and then it worked just fine. > > To make it work from a cdrom, you'd have to modify the initrd file. > it's setup to read from a harddisk or floppy, but it doesn't load the > module for the ide-cd. I'm not even sure if the kernel module is in the > image, so you might have to grab it from the ltsp kernel package. Yep, I was able to hack together things and use isolinux to get it to boot from a cdrom just fine so we are off to the races. Now I just have to see how performance is going to be. > Jim McQuillan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Kurt Bechstein wrote: > > I'm working on getting some wireless laptops booting using the > > wireless_ltsp package. So far I've got them booting up just fine and > > thing actually don't work too badly over 802.11b. I mean it is slower > > but I expected as much. Anyways, along the way I've discovered a couple > > of issues. > > > > The first is that I can't seem to get the the wireless to work using any > > form of WEP. I've tried 64 bit and 128 bit. If I disable wep all works > > just fine. I'm using a orinoco gold card and a dlink wireless ap. For > > my config I'm just entering the hex key into the wireless.cfg file on > > the boot floppy. Anyone had any experience with this or any other > > ideas? > > > > Secondly, it would be nice if I could boot these laptops up via cd > > rather than floppy since they are equipped as such. I tried taking the > > files from the floppy and using isolinux but it fails when trying to > > start cardmgr saying it can't open /tmp/wireless.opts some I'm guessing > > it has something to do with the ramdisk. Any help on this would be > > greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > -- Kurt Bechstein | Unique Systems, Inc. Systems Administrator | 1687 Woodlands Dr. Phone: (419) 861-3331 | Maumee, OH 43537 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.uniqsys.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _____________________________________________________________________ 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
