Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:58:42 -0400
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on Wireless NICs
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:32:48PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:32 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> 
> > 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!)...
> 
> Just to set the record straight, I'm unaware of any CardBus devices
> compatible with the orinoco driver, i.e. Prism 2-3, Symbol Trilogy or
> Hermes I based 802.11b device.
> 
> At the first glance, gPXE appears to support Prism chipset only, either
> native PCI or PCMCIA behind PLX9052 bridge.

I'm not sure where you are looking.  I have a git tree from here:

	git://git.etherboot.org/scm/gpxe.git

The gpxe source file src/drivers/net/prism2_pci.c claims to support
PCI ID 1260:3873 which is listed as a prism 2.5 device supported by
drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c in the linux tree.  Similarly the
gpxe src/drivers/net/prism2_plx.c claims to support all of the PCI IDs
listed in drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.c from the linux tree as
well as one that is not listed there (126c:8030 -- perhaps we should
add it?).

As I said, I do not have _any_ pci-based prism2-3 hardware (donations
welcome!), so I can not verify whether or not the gpxe code (or for
that matter the linux code) actually works -- YMMV.  I'm just going
by what information I have.

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com