RE: [Etherboot-developers] Missing NIC Drivers
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From: Timothy L. <tl...@ro...> - 2003-04-30 10:10:36
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> Current code uses no encryption, although this would be fairly trivial to > add. Encryption could always be switched on after you've downloaded and > booted the kernel, anyway. I assume that any NICS that Linux support have the code to enable the encryption available? > There are slightly more stages to getting a wireless NIC initialised; you > have to join to an access point before you can transmit or receive. With > the Prism2 cards (the only ones currently supported by Etherboot), you > also have to deal with the Info frames (out-of-band information) that > arrive, otherwise your card's receive buffer gradually fills up. That doesn't sound too bad. > Also, the current code supports a PLX adaptor, i.e. a wireless PCMCIA card > slotted into a PCMCIA-to-PCI adaptor card. This means that you have to > implement some aspects of PCMCIA: initialising the PLX chip, looking for > the PCMCIA card and doing the ISA-style initialisation of the PCMCIA card > before you can even start talking to the actual wireless hardware. Hm, I had wondered how difficult one of those would be to implement. Is there enough of the PCMCIA process there to use for other PCMCIA cards or is a more general solution required? |