Wyse S90 ramblings

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What is this?

Some notes on Wyse S90. The Wyse SX0 series thinclients are all very much alike and behave strangely.

Links

BIOS

  • Enter with "DEL"
  • Default pass is "Fireport"

OpenWRT

Installation

I used the debian squeeze installer in HARKboot for this (wheezy doesn't work). Steps:

  • Go trough the installer to the point where it detects (and can't find) disks
  • Unload en load modules

modprobe -r ata_generic
modprobe -r pata_amd
modprobe ata_generic all_generic_ide=1

Running OpenWRT

With downloaded image the kernel boots but I don't get a login screen. Network is disabled too.

NAS4Free

I managed to boot NAS4Free 9.2.0.1 - Shigawire (revision 972).

  • Use the 32 bits embedded download
  • dd it onto a usb stick and put the stick in the Wyse
  • set the Wyse into usb booting from the BIOS
  • Choose safe mode (option 3) when you get the chance (very short window so be quick).

Moar RAM

It came with 256MB DDR SO-DIMM, but 512MB also works (2 tried, 1 success story)