asus netbook as fat client?

[Jesse McDonnell]

I've been running a Term 150 as a client with a Centos 5.3 LTSP server for some years now and it has worked very well. But, I'm getting the itch to upgrade and intend to use an Asus 1000HE with a USB keyboard and mouse as a fat client hooked up to a 19" LCD.

Is PXE booting for the Atheros NIC supported in the LTSP 5? I tried it with my setup (version 4.2) but the nic doesn't appear to be supported - it gives a kernel panic even even after specifying the chipset (AR8121) in dhcp.conf.

Anyone using a netbook? Anything to watch out for?

Jesse

[Barry Cisna]

Jesse,

Yes the Asus Netbooks will work with ltsp 5 / SL6 out of the box.
The (newer) ltsp5 / SL6 has support for many of the newer onboard
nics,on various mobo's.

Take Care,
Barry

[Jesse McDonnell]

On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 07:36:42 -0500

Post by Barry Cisna
Jesse,
Yes the Asus Netbooks will work with ltsp 5 / SL6 out of the box.
The (newer) ltsp5 / SL6 has support for many of the newer onboard
nics,on various mobo's.

Barry,

That's good to hear. I upgraded the netbook to Lubunto 12.10 and it runs pretty good. At the moment, I'm thinking of setting up nxserver and nomachine on the netbook - it will give fat client local apps and thin client access and the fact that it will also work over wireless is a huge plus in terms of convenience.

Best regards,

Jesse McDonnell