From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: LanceZ Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:25:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver In-Reply-To: <20081112215654.9A58C832E40A@gemini.denx.de> References: <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CCF23@suzexch01.taihootech.com> <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361@suzexch01.taihootech.com> <20081112215654.9A58C832E40A@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <20472956.post@talk.nabble.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Wolfgang Thanks for the reply, I am not really want to support the TCP/IP , Wnat I do is to add the wireless network card to uboot then I can load OS firmware from another computer(maybe through tftp wlan) wd wrote: > > Dear "Lance Zhang", > > In message > <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361@suzexch01.taihootech.com> you > wrote: >> >> My questions are: How can I support wireless network card on U Boot? > > Correct. And there is no support for TCP/IP einther, nor do we have > X11 or Gnome, and there is neither Eclipse nor Firefox available, > not even OpenOffice or iSCSI support. > > To make the story short: U-Boot is a boot loader, and a pretty > powerful one, but there are certain tasks where it makes sense to use > an OS. > >> I want to implement a wlan mini-pci driver, But when I see U Boot source >> tree, there is no codes related to wireless, do you have any suggestion >> on how to add wireless support on U Boot? Or is there any U Boot >> branches that have already implemented wireless extension on U boot? > > Don't waste your time. Use U-Boot to boot asmall configuration of > Linux with WLAN support included, and use this to do whjat you want to > do. > > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-U-Boot--mini-pci-wireless-driver-tp20317042p20472956.html Sent from the Uboot - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.