Wireless LTSP

There have been lots of questions lately about booting an LTSP workstation with a wireless network card.

In LTSP-3.0, we had a wireless package that worked for a small set of pcmcia cards. This wireless package can still work with LTSP-4+, you will just need to install the kernel modules in the right place.

LTSP Wireless package: wireless_ltsp-3.0.5-i386.tgz

Here's the package containing the modules: ltsp_wireless_modules.tgz

Download the modules package, and untar it while in the /opt/ltsp/i386/lib/modules directory.

If you are interested in booting wirelessly (rather than from a floppy or CD, which is what the LTSP Wireless package will enable you to do) then see Wireless LTSP clients using an ethernet bridge

I used LTSP 5 in Debian Etch, included wireless drivers and modified startup-scripts into the initrd and could boot from a 32MB Flash Memory (should work with USB Stick, a CD or a small local harddisk). The flash contains everything needed to use a USB wireless Stick (kernel, initrd with drivers, keys for WEP and VPN) to boot from the LTSP Server. Documentation (in german) is in the LUG Krefeld Wiki. I will help translate it if someone needs that. -- ThomasBayen - 20 Jul 2007

Another solution is to get an etherboot supported wireless network card. I used the 3com AirConnect 3CRWE777A PCMCIA PCI card. Then you just need another network card to put the etherboot image on and there you go booting wirelessly without any local media.