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 -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
