Remote Booting Using a Wireless Network Card?

Eboneye asks: "I have been assigned to a project to figure out how to make a diskless portable workstation (laptop) boot through a wireless connection. The idea is to have a stateless client that stores no local data (for security purposes). The only totally network boot stuff I have found uses PXE extensions. I have seen nothing like this in a PCMCIA card, much less a -wireless- PCMCIA card. For the proof of concept, we'll boot from a read only device, but of course during the setup phase use media to create a boot image on a boot server. I am currently looking at a couple different products that will provide a booting service. Ultimately, the goal is a to have a wireless tablet that can use different PCMCIA wireless adapters to connect to different LANs. Because of the specialized concerns of tablet PCs the solution has to be Windows compatible (sorry, Linux). Has anyone seen or worked on remote boot through wireless? Any experiences, gotchas, or suggestions for ways to solve this are welcome."

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Re:let me get this straight...

[kevin lyda]

oh come on. it's like he's asking for a lighting solution with an even output over the visible spectrum for his clear glass fountain that uses water with a high concentration of bleach "for color reasons."

could you honestly call a system secure that contains wireless network nodes running windows? and you have to answer that question without hallucinagenic drugs or resorting to philosophic ponderings on what words/time/reality mean.