On Tuesday 25 March 2008, John W. Linville wrote: > 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. For rt2x00 the following: rt2400pci, rt2500pci and rt2500usb > > 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 -- 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
