Any Bootable Wireless NICs ? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by timothy on Monday September 3, 2001 @05:38AM from the intriguing-query dept.

ReidMaynard asks: "Recently I've been playing with the idea of a wireless netboot system...however, I would like not to use a floppy to boot from. I understand that if a NIC card has a EPROM socket, I can flash an EPROM and stick it in the NIC to do a netboot ... but I cannot seem to locate any wireless cards (or more exactly) any pcmcia-to-PCI adaptors which have a EPROM socket ... does anyone know of such an animal ... or a PCMCIA card which has a built-in programmable area (unlikely) ...?" This is one of those things that sounds really obvious once it's been spoken, but I'd never thought about this before. Sure would have been nice in certain office environments I've been in.

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Re:Mac and Airport? by ivan256 · 2001-09-04 07:08 · Score: 3, Interesting

Setup you BOOTP/DHCP and TFTP servers apropriatly and then try this command at the Open Firmware prompt:

'boot enet:<NIC #>,<bootfile name>'

enet:0 should give you the onboard cabled ethernet, and enet:1 should let you boot off the wireless. Whatever you put as the bootfile name is the file it will download off the TFTP server and execute.