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Thin Clients : Tools 

Software tools for Wyse WinCE based terminals

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display

When first presented with a new model of a Wyse/Compact thin client a little detective work is necessary to find out what's what. This is a hotchpotch of code that I've written to poke around and print out the contents of various registers, to flip bits on IO ports to find out which one controls the LEDs on the front of the thin client, etc.

By the nature of things it's a bit of a mess but it might be useful as a starting point for somebody so I've left it in the source tree.

Building it

Just type make in the tools/display directory to get display.bin and then:

makebootp -L display.bin

..to create a bootp.bin file that's ready to be downloaded by NetXfer.

Depending on the model you're working on you can send output to the local screen if you're running under the standard NetXfer code, or a serial port if the thin client happens to have one. If you're using netboot it will have to be the serial port.

 


Any comments? email me.    Last update January 2011