[Server-devel] Wireless Cards in the School Server

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Xavier Ziemba
<Xavier.Ziemba at students.olin.edu> wrote:
> I've been working on configuring an XS server for the Cambridge Friends School in Massachusetts and have a couple of questions regarding wireless networking and the XS server. Does the XS software support automatic configuration of PCI wireless cards within the server itself? The documentation on the OLPC wiki seems to suggest that using separate wireless access points through a wired interface is supported; would this be a better solution for this deployment? Also, how would I go about configuring the appropriate links between network interfaces if I used wireless cards within the server?
>
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> Xavier Ziemba
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You should be able to run PCI wireless cards with XS as long as Fedora
supports the drivers. The only thing that may get in the way is the
way wireless cards get their labels allocated (wlan0 instead of eth0,
etc) in which case the interface bonding will break (IIRC, the labels
on the XS are eth0, eth1, etc).

I haven't tried it, but its worth a shot. Can you report back and tell
us if it worked?

Sameer
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