[Quantian-general] wireless openmosix

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

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On 10 March 2006 at 08:49, Dr Nigel Brown wrote:
| Hi
| I want to run quantian open mosix kernel (2.4) but when I do cannot get
| wireless connection (I have dlink DWL-520 cards with atheros chip). If I

Hm, my laptop has a netgear card, and I also found it somewhat tedious to get
wireless going under older Quantian (or Debian) releases. I find things are a
lot easier now with, say, recent (K)ubuntu versions as well as the most
recent Quantian.

For the specifics of the aetheros chipset I cannot help you -- sorry.

| cable my lan openmosix runs but I want wireless.

That's probably fine for testing, but for real work you may prefer 100mbit or
better over actual wires...

| Wireless works with 2.6 kernel boot.
| Does anyone know if I run quantian openmosix inside a vmware player will
| that give access to the host systems wireless connection? I presume it will

No idea -- what does reading the VMware forums suggest?  My understanding
that once the outer host OS has wirelesss, you would get it inside as the
VMware networking layer really is just a virtual one.

| but wanted to find if anyone had experence with that setup before I go down
| the vm player path (Dirk -  I thought of this when I saw you use vm player
| to run quantian isos).
| Or if anyone has an atheros card running with open mosix kernel let me know.

As I mentioned in my brief blog entries, I have not been entirely successful
with openMosix under VMware, but I haven't tried that hard either. A friend
echoed the sentiment based on earlier trials.

However, the idea is so intriguing (imagine 'rescuing' all the spare cpu
cycles of a typical Windows desktop....) that someone will probably try and
maybe even publish a recipe or howto.

Cheers, Dirk

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