From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on Wireless NICs
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:32:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1206646369.6433.8.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080327155842.GA3624@tuxdriver.com>
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 11:58 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:32:48PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:32 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> >
> > > The gPXE (formerly etherboot) project seems to support PCI-based
> > > (e.g. cardbus, but not PCMCIA) orinoco devices. I cannot verify that,
> > > since I have no such device (donations accepted!)...
> >
> > Just to set the record straight, I'm unaware of any CardBus devices
> > compatible with the orinoco driver, i.e. Prism 2-3, Symbol Trilogy or
> > Hermes I based 802.11b device.
> >
> > At the first glance, gPXE appears to support Prism chipset only, either
> > native PCI or PCMCIA behind PLX9052 bridge.
>
> I'm not sure where you are looking. I have a git tree from here:
>
> git://git.etherboot.org/scm/gpxe.git
That's where I was looking.
> The gpxe source file src/drivers/net/prism2_pci.c claims to support
> PCI ID 1260:3873 which is listed as a prism 2.5 device supported by
> drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c in the linux tree. Similarly the
> gpxe src/drivers/net/prism2_plx.c claims to support all of the PCI IDs
> listed in drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c from the linux tree as
> well as one that is not listed there (126c:8030 -- perhaps we should
> add it?).
126c:8030 is in orinoco_nortel.c, and I don't think it can be treated
like plx9052 based bridges.
The code in prism2.c looks similar to linux-wlan-ng, which is
Prism-only. But on the other hand, the gpxe driver offers only very
basic functionality, which doesn't even include WEP, so it's possible
that non-Prism cards would work.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-27 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-25 18:41 Question on Wireless NICs Balaji Rao
2008-03-25 19:32 ` John W. Linville
2008-03-25 21:15 ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-03-26 2:32 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-27 15:58 ` John W. Linville
2008-03-27 19:32 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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