From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on Wireless NICs
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:32:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080325193219.GC30587@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200803260011.29045.balajirrao@gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:11:28AM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote:
> My question is, are there any wireless NICs that don't require a firmware to be loaded into them to work ?
There are some, although many of them are old: adm8211, airo, ath5k,
rtl8180, rtl8187, and some of the rt2x00 devices.
> I was planning to boot off a wireless NIC through PXE. Is it possible ??
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!)...
Hth!
John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 20:06 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 [this message]
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
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