On Tue, September 19, 2006 1:29 pm, John Lucas wrote:
> This sounds like it will eventually work; it just won't be a diskless
> terminal anymore. If you want to use your own hardware and enjoy DIY
> projects, this should be fun for you. If not, there are a some standalone
> terminals out there with embedded kernels on Compact Flash RAM drives. I
> think Neoware and DevonIT may have models that work with WiFi cards. If I
> remember correctly, the NeoWare terminals would support a particular model
> of cisco PCI WiFi board. I haven't looked in several years, but we did
> have a flock of Neoware terminals for RDP access at the university I
> retired from.

Yep, I wonder if any of them support PXE over Wireless yet though.  As I
understand it, there's nothing technically limiting PXE over Wireless
other than manufacturers building a BIOS/Firmware that would initialize
the card and allow configuration of Default SSID (and WEP/WPA settings to
I'd hope) before grabbing an IP address from the DHCP server and starting
the TFTP download.

I realized what you said about it no longer being a diskless terminal and
you're right.  But I've at least kept it to no moving parts by using USB
flash drives.  I guess right now it's a choice between complicating the
network setup between the client and server (using the wireless bridge
method) or complicating the local client config (by using the local boot
instead of PXE).  I just found the USB slightly cheaper with what I had
here.

Jay
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Jay Lee
Network / Systems Administrator
Information Technology Dept.
Philadelphia Biblical University
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