Wireless PXE netboot w/ wavelan

Wireless PXE netboot w/ wavelan

Post by PenguinsAnonym.. » Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:47:49



I have a setup that uses PXEboot to netboot several systems using
DHCP for configuration.
I need a new node that uses a wavelan card to do similar.
From what I see I need to make PXE work with that adapter. Once
the interface is configured making the custom kernel do the
rest is not hard.
If I cannot somehow recompile the PXE loader to work with
wavelan I may be able to recompile grub to do a similar process?
Anyone have any experience with this?
Key is that either of these processes would need wavelan drivers.
I think PXE uses DOS or NDIS?
These are older wavlan B 11mb cards.
TIA

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Wireless PXE netboot w/ wavelan

Post by William Par » Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:35:40



> I have a setup that uses PXEboot to netboot several systems using
> DHCP for configuration.
> I need a new node that uses a wavelan card to do similar.
> From what I see I need to make PXE work with that adapter. Once
> the interface is configured making the custom kernel do the
> rest is not hard.
> If I cannot somehow recompile the PXE loader to work with
> wavelan I may be able to recompile grub to do a similar process?
> Anyone have any experience with this?
> Key is that either of these processes would need wavelan drivers.
> I think PXE uses DOS or NDIS?
> These are older wavlan B 11mb cards.

I don't think there is wireless adapter which can work without driver
(more accurately, without firmware in the driver).  If you have floppy,
then load the kernel from floppy.

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