[GLLUG] Diskless Workstations Using LTSP

Matt Graham danceswithcrows@usa.net
Thu, 22 May 2003 11:49:04 -0400


On Thursday 22 May 2003 11:21, after a long battle with technology, Jeff 
Lawton wrote:
> Meeting/Potluck/BBQ is outside at my place and I was thinking some
> wireless stuff would be appropriate. It would be very cool to combine
> the two. network booting laptops across a wireless network. I can
> provide the hardware.

> BYOWN (Bring Your Own Wireless NIC)

[snippage]

On that note, what do people recommend for 802.11b PCMCIA cards that 
work with Linux?  There's currently a thread on comp.os.linux.hardware 
about this; the consensus there was "anything with an Orinoco chipset, 
avoid D-link since they keep changing the chipsets without changing the 
model#."  I guess it's time for me to join the wireless revolution....

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