Re: Question on Wireless NICs

On Tuesday 25 March 2008, John W. Linville wrote:

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:11:28AM +0530, Balaji Rao wrote:

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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.

For rt2x00 the following:
rt2400pci, rt2500pci and rt2500usb

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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