[VoIP] Asterisk on Wyse Diskless 941G "Thin" client terminal

[Donald Froula]

I found the BIOS password, hacked in a power connector
for the hard drive, dropped in a new surplus 6 Gbyte
drive with double-sided tape, and pulled out the flash
module from the second IDE connector. I loaded up
Debian Linux via net install, booting off an external
USB DVD drive. After Linux and Asterisk, I still have
3 Gbyte left over for call detail records and
additional recordings. I'm just waiting for a dual-nic
interface card for the single PCI slot for my
T1-over-Ethernet SF/MF trunks for ProjectMf.

It works great! Plenty of horsepower for my use.

I'm still trying to figure how to load all the zaptel
drivers, start zaptel, and start asterisk at boot.
I've played with adding a shell script in /etc/init.d,
with a softlink from /etc/rc1.d, but can't get this to
work. Any ideas?

I think I may put another one together, it was so much
fun!

Don

--- Donald Froula <dfroula at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> This model, a 941GXL, has a 1GHz processor, 1/2
> Gbyte
> of flash and 256 Mbyte of RAM. That should be enough
> speed.
> 
> Don Froula
> 
> --- Don Wisdom <donw at engineeringinc.com> wrote:
> 
> > The wyse thin clients ive messed with were really
> > lacking in the processor
> > department.   They basically have enough processor
> > to display the video that
> > is sent to it from the Citrix server.   All those
> > systems work in similar
> > fashion to the old unix dumb terminals.  Basically
> > that means that all the
> > processing is done on the Citrix server and the
> > video is put out on the thin
> > client.   
> > --Don
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 9/9/07 6:26, "John Novack"
> > <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > I have a similar HP 5515 with Linux already on
> the
> > flash. It also was a
> > > thin client for Citrix.
> > > Unfortunately, at the moment I am not smart
> enough
> > to go very far with it.
> > > I am still having problems getting an ASUS
> router
> > configured well enough
> > > to run Asterisk.
> > > John Jones and Paul Wills have successfully done
> > that, but we had other
> > > items to cover at the show and didn't get to the
> > router configuration.
> > > 
> > > John Novack
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Donald Froula wrote:
> > >> I recemtly came by a new Wyse diskless 941G
> > client
> > >> terminal, loaded with Windows XPe. This is a
> > diskless
> > >> workstation that is designed to run server
> > >> applications over VNC or Microsoft Citrix. It
> has
> > a
> > >> full complement of
> > >>
> > USB/parallel/serial/keyboard/monitor/audio/network
> > >> ports.
> > >> 
> > >> The box has a single PCI slot. Plugged into one
> > of the
> > >> motherboard IDE slots is what looks like a
> flash
> > >> memory module. There are no drives installed at
> > all,
> > >> although there are spots for a CDROM and floppy
> > drive.
> > >> It is preloaded with a few stand-alone apps,
> such
> > as
> > >> Internet Explorer and Media player. The BIOS
> > appears
> > >> to be standard Award BIOS.
> > >> 
> > >> This would make a very cool platform for Linux
> > and
> > >> Asterisk. Wyse makes Linux-based client
> > terminals, but
> > >> I'm not sure if their software would run on
> this
> > >> Windows XPe box, or if Wyse Linux would have
> the
> > tools
> > >> necessary to compile Asterisk and Zaptel.
> > >> 
> > >> Any thoughts? Anyone tried this already?
> > >> 
> > >> Don
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