Hardware

So we had a HP t5500 thin client http://www.thinclientcentral.com/HP_t5500.htm at work that we werent using, it has a 32mb flash drive, 733mhz curose cpu, 256MB PC2100 ram, soo i booted form a usb drive with linux and did a dd to install the latest image to the flash and bam, instant m0n0wall. The one main issue is it only has 1 eth port onboard which is a VIA rhine, so I bought a USB to Ethernet adapter, but the USB is 1.1 so my 8MB internet now downloads at 4MB. So after doing some digging i found you can buy a PCI expansion kit from HP. I found one on ebay for 6.99. The HP part # is DE961A. So far everything is working great, hopefully i will get the exansion card this week and can put another nic in. I will report back if anyone has any interest of how it went.

I've been running monowall on an HP t5700 (1GHz, 512MB Ram, 256MB Disk on Module) for a while now and its been rock solid.  For anyone on the wall about these, I would highly recommend them not only for their size, but for their nice specs in relation to a router.

Currently trying to get monowall to work with the Sun quad port card so I can leave it in my TC, but that is another story.

I just got T5735 and so far have no luck getting m0n0wall installed.  would you please give me an advice on best way to approach it?

I can't seem to create usb version of linux so that i can boot the thin client and download img file to flash it.  any advice is greatly appreciated.

thanks


Alex

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hei, its problem same
error to install monowal on hp t5710 series, 800mhz, 256 dom, 256 ram
its said interrupt_driven_hooks : still waiting after ........

@daver
@stroths

can you give how to setup monowall on hp thinclient ?

ihave installed via usb cdrom, result : fail, still interrupt_driven_hooks : still waiting after...
ihave boot via usb drive, use embeded image with physdiskwrite, result : fail

any one ...
can give some direction please ...

bump ...  

for 2nd times ...

its have one week to explore and having much time to get monowall work on that machine
the result ...
still hang some where ....  

really its pain ...
problem occur when i place pci nic on the machine
i loose my keyboard control
even i use usb keyboard, still loose for keyboard control
i plug pci nic cause monowall atleast use 2 nic to properly work

hmmm ...
still working and wont give up so soon ...  

there another 2 methode that i wana to try
i think that final methode, i hope it will work ... if not i will throw my machien to garbage box  

well ...
theres nothing wrong with monowall
theres nothing wrong with t5000 series
more on me ... lack of knowledge ...  
learn ... learn ... try in and out

Why not get a Dual NIC card then? No idea how deep the expansion cage is, but with some luck you might find a not too deep PCI card too.

Btw: would those T5500 be fast enough for 120Mb/s download?
Got a 120/10Mbit/s connection here

yup ... thats good idea

since my device not have pci riser kit, and in here very difficult to get one
so i hack the onboard nic, i get off the onboard nic and re wire with hd cable
aha ... i get pci without having pci riser ... do at your own risk for that hack !!!

like i said before ...
when i plug the nic on pci card, i loose control of my keyboard
thats i have so pain ...

120/10 mbps ... cool
in my dream i have that conn , lucky for u
should you try that ...
btw, u have t5000 series ? any success ?

finally ....

 

Think I will have to drop this.
Getting a thin client isn't the problem, the PCI cage maybe a bit more searching, but getting a dual 1Gbit PCI-32 card is next to impossible it seems.
All PCI-X or PCI-64.

Obviously a a dual Gbit PCI-32 wouldn't make much sense anyway, but still.
Unless there is a thin client with onboard Gbit NIC, I'll have to stick with my home build VIA solution.

take a shoot of  gt7725 series ...

nice spek ...





*wrong typo ....

Looks nice, but still only 10/100 onboard.
Looking at the quickspecs PDF it's using standard PCI-32 as well.

Was checking the current models. VIA CPU's and onboard 10/100/1000, but no more PCI cages...
And a tad expensive to buy new just for a m0n0wall box imo.

This might work for the second NIC (no idea on the chipset used though): http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=281799

But that just makes it even more expensive...