Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:64840 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285AbYCYVQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:16:00 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so2521595ugc.16 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:15:58 -0700 (PDT) To: Balaji Rao Subject: Re: Question on Wireless NICs Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:15:08 +0100 Cc: "John W. Linville" , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <200803260011.29045.balajirrao@gmail.com> <20080325193219.GC30587@tuxdriver.com> In-Reply-To: <20080325193219.GC30587@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200803252215.09057.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (sfid-20080325_211607_333142_A66CD66A) From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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