(US) 90 dollar Wyse 5070 Thin client/mini-server?

[Samir]

No a physical power on jumped, giving me the ability to turn it on with a KVM with ATX control leads.

I am guessing I can unplug the actual power switch and wire something up?

You can simply set the 'After Power Failure' bios setting to 'always on' and it should always boot up after a power cut. I have several thin clients on switched pdus and that's how I reboot them.

 

[Temstar]

I found another nice NIC for Wyse 5070, this one is intel i225V 2.5Gbps and comes with the bracket to fit Wyse 5070, pretty expensive though:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007538553975.html

Here it is installed, BYO case screws


Bios recognised it like this, so should work in all OS


Result in my terminal, I'm using my Wyse 5070 as my Home Assistant box running HAOS plus assorted integrations:

 

[Bjorn Smith]

I found another nice NIC for Wyse 5070, this one is intel i225V 2.5Gbps and comes with the bracket to fit Wyse 5070, pretty expensive though:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007538553975.html

Here it is installed, BYO case screws
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Bios recognised it like this, so should work in all OS
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Result in my terminal, I'm using my Wyse 5070 as my Home Assistant box running HAOS plus assorted integrations:
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That is a very strange MAC address though - I would not trust this

 

[Temstar]

That is a very strange MAC address though - I would not trust this

When you actually boot into your OS it's not weird like that:


I've tested traffic on both NIC at the same time it's working fine, it doesn't have the all FF MAC address inside the OS. Must be some weird Dell bios nonsense.

Someone else earlier in the thread saw the exact same behaviour with a different NIC:

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/us-90-dollar-wyse-5070-thin-client-mini-server.29242/post-279688

 

[Samir]

That is a very strange MAC address though - I would not trust this

That's my thinking too--especially where it comes from. Usually MAC addresses are hardcoded with a prefix that points to the manufacturer. Having all FFs is probably out of spec with something for sure.