Re: [Etherboot-users] Re: etherboot pci wifi

[Michael B. <mb...@fe...>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Hermann Gausterer wrote:
> i tried with an old tekram tc-400 .... wow what an old card ;-)
> 
> i did a to stage loading:
> 
> 3comMBA -> prism2.pxe -> etherboot-prism boot
> 
> the accesspoint has all wep & accesslists and such turned off
> 
> all macs are "anomyzed" ;-)
> 
> output of etherboot:
> ------------------------------------------------
> Etherboot 5.4.0 (GPL) http://etherboot.org
> Drivers: Prism2_PCI   Images: NBI ELF PXE   Exports: PXE
> Protocols: DHCP TFTP
> Relocating _text from: [0007ec10,00090b80) to [07eee090,07f00000)
> Probing pci nic...
> [prism2_pci]Prism2.5 has registers at 0xd9112f70
> MAC address 00:02:DD:XX:XX:XX
> Attempting to autojoin to any available access point (attempt 1)...done
> Link not connected (status 0x0006)
> Attempting to autojoin to any available access point (attempt 2)...done
> Link connected (BSSID 00:80:C8:XX:XX:XX - MAC address 8F:00:00:XX:XX:XX)
> Searching for server (DHCP)...Tx exception occurred with fid 0x01ed
> hfa384x: Tx error occurred (status 0x0001):
>  ...retry error
>
> <snip>
>
> maybe my card is not working correctly, never get it to work
> with linux directly .. and the original M$ drivers are a P.I.T.A!! :-o

The driver is definitely communicating with the card, otherwise you'd 
never get a successful join to the access point.  Do you have a known 
working card that you could test with?

Michael