Diskless thin clients on Wireless LAN possible?

resetreset · 04-01-2010, 01:26 AM

That is, the thin clients will have to get their OS image via TFTP, and their IP address via DHCP on a *wireless card* - is this possible?

What spec should I ask for/search for when buying the WiFi card?

Thanks.

jefro · 04-01-2010, 03:50 PM

There are basically two ways to boot diskless. One is a nic with a built in rom. Not many these days or they are special. Never have seen a wireless with a rom. Second is PXE. PXE is built in to the nic. I have never seen a pxe feature on a wifi but you could look.

What you may end up having to do is go to either GPXE or a boot floppy,cd,usb that teaches the sytem enough to boot over wireless. I'd start at GPXE. http://www.etherboot.org/wiki/wirelessboot

See this post also. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=285842