Comments on: Making A Donated Wyse WT3350SE Thin Client Terminal Work (with Pre-9/11 Firmware!)

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:54:16 +0000

In reply to Dan Farrer. Glad it was useful, it certainly took me a while to track down the right instructions and software!

By: Dan Farrer

Dan Farrer — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:19:38 +0000

I just wanted to say thank you for your post. I picked up a few of these units and wasn’t successful until I found your post. In no time I had these units up and working. Thanks again!

By: David Szpunar

David Szpunar — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:21:44 +0000

@ThinkThin: Thank you for your additional comments! I will dig in a bit deeper in the future as I have time (wish I had more! Don't we all? :-) @Bill Green: Hi! I only have experience with the Wyse terminal I posted about, and that's the extent of my thin client experience. What you're saying sounds like a very workable solution, but I would verify with your check-in provider that they support IE6 both now and will continue to in the future, since you will be locked into using that browser. IE6 support is going away in many areas because it's so non-standard since IE7 came out and IE8 is in the works (and where it's still supported, I wish it weren't! But that's for another day :-) Anyway, if everything checks out, it sounds workable, but you might want to ask around in the #citrt channel on the Freenode IRC network, that's where a bunch of Church IT Roundtable folks hang out, some of whom have much more thin client (especially for child checkin!) experience than I do! You can get to the chat channel from your web browser at this link if you are not familiar with IRC or IRC client software. Jump in and ask someone; if you don't get a response people may be busy (or at lunch), try again later! There's usually someone around who can help or point you to someone who can.

By: Bill Green

Bill Green — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:52:37 +0000

Hey David!
Currently, I’m a IT Volunteer for my church (the only one, really), and am working closely with the pastoral staff on the IT Infrastructure for a new children’s wing we’re building.
In the new wing, we will be using freestanding computer kiosks to check in children as they arrive, using a web-based system. The systems will only need to provide web access using a web browser, nothing more. Given that even a low-end PC would be overkill for the task, I was thinking of using a Thin Client (a Wyse S90, specifically) with XP Embedded for the task, and use IE6 as the browser.
Given that you do this for a living, I’d like your opinion: am I insane, or is this really a good way to save money?

By: ThinkThin

ThinkThin — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:55:01 +0000

Hi,

Thanks for using freewysemonkeys, glad you got your terminals working!

There are a few ways to upgrade and different files as you found, but here is the drill:

Full firmware:
These contain the full firmware with all the software components like the RDP client. the firs number is the Microsoft release so “2xx_xx” is CE 2.x, “3xx_xx” is CE3.x and “4xx_xx” is CE4.x. As the firmware gets newer is gets bigger so you may not have the flash space to load a CE4 image.

There are also modular components that can be added, like the RDP client you loaded up from inside the GUI. These are tied to the base firmware version – you can not load the RDP5 client to CE 2.12 for example.

Fell free to post in the freewysemonkeys forums if you have questions,

Cheers,
-TT