Re: [Etherboot-developers] Prism II (wireless) drivers

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Michael Brown <mb...@fe...> writes:

> Greetings,
> 
> I am new to this list.  I have written Etherboot drivers for the
> Prism2/2.5 wireless (IEEE802.11b) chipsets.  These work with the three
> cards I have available:
> 
>   Netgear MA301/MA401 (PCMCIA wireless card with PLX-based PCI adaptor)
>   ActionTec HWP01170 (PCI wireless card, Prism2.5)
>   DLink DWL-520 (PCI wireless card, Prism2.5)
>
> To whom should I send the code?  

This list, or at least a pointer to it.  It is also possible
to get setup on sourceforge.

> I've been using 5.0.6 - haven't tried
> with 5.1 yet (5.1 crashed the first time I tried it, 5.0.6 worked so I
> started developing with the one that worked).

For now the 5.1 branch is dead. 5.0.6 is the correct version
to be working against.

> I'm also working on a small patch to genrules.pl to make it easier to
> build BootROMs that support multiple drivers.  As a related item, I've
> added a few lines to rtl8139_probe that detect when the network cable is
> unplugged, print a warning message and then abort (thereby allowing
> Etherboot to continue on to trying other cards).

Nice.
 
> As you might be able to guess, my aim is to have a BootROM in an RTL8139
> card that is capable of booting the machine via either a cable plugged in
> to the RTL8139 or, if that fails, via a wireless link using a Prism2 card.

Cool.

> It works! :-)

Congratulations!

There is some work in progress to place an MD5 signature on bootable
images.  With the spoofabilty of network links somehow that sounds
like a desire feature.

Thoughts?

Eric