There's also 3rd party wireless SunRay laptops. I believe there's 3
companies out there now making them. Our testing with General Dynamics'
Tadpoles was an outright disaster. I have 'heard' better things about
one of the others. Someone will have to refresh my memory on the other
vendors. Or their experience with them would be even better.
With the Tadpoles, they do WEP only, and could not get them to connect
to the SunRay server via wireless. They would go into a reboot loop as
soon as it contacted the SunRay server. When I used the ethernet port
they worked fine, but that sort of takes the point out of a wireless
laptop. I was trying different firmwares and patch levels of the SunRay
software with the same result.
So I would stay far away from Tadpoles, amazing that a SunRay laptop
worth almost 5k, doesn't even work. I know that I wasn't the only one
with problems, the University here couldn't get them working either.
Hence how I got my 1st one, but I got 2 more from General Dynamics to
make sure it wasn't a hardware problem.
- Trev
George Vasiliadis wrote:
>
Hey All ...
We have 6 x SunRay 150 running off a Sun E450 Server and 4 x Sun W1100Z
Workstations.
At present they are all connected to a Dell 3324 Switch.
We are about to move to our new premises and we would like to run a full
wireless network.
"Just trying to avoid running 30,000 meters of cable".
Our SunRays are scattered around our facility and we have 10 contractual
staff with laptops
(Mac's & Win) that come and go, but all share the 6 cubes we have set-up.
We also have a HP8550 network printer with a Jet Direct interface that
we would like to go
wireless.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
Cheers
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