Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:3832 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751960AbYCYUGn (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:06:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:32:19 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Balaji Rao Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on Wireless NICs Message-ID: <20080325193219.GC30587@tuxdriver.com> (sfid-20080325_200649_133573_97EDF554) References: <200803260011.29045.balajirrao@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200803260011.29045.balajirrao@gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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@tuxdriver.com