You would probably need a driver built into uboot to recognize a usb network device or maybe a way in uboot to setup wifi. I know my avaya wireless phones look for new images on my tftp server when they boot. Maybe if there was a way to replace a live kernel that might work for you?
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Jan Keymeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun 31 August 2008 om 14:30:11 GMT Al Johnson told us: >> On Saturday 30 August 2008, Andreas Zuber wrote: >> > Am Samstag 30 August 2008 10:06:01 schrieb Torfinn Ingolfsen: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I just got a strange idea into my head. So I'll ask a possibly silly >> > > question: >> > > >> > > Is it possble to netboot a Neo FreeRunner? Can you netboot at all over >> > > usb? Does uboot have netbot support? >> > >> > I know uboot from an other embedded system, where it was installed, and it >> > is able to download a kernel from a tftp server to the memory. This is done >> > by the "tftpboot" command. >> > There is also a "dhcp" command so uboot can get an ip for the network. >> > >> > But i dont know if uboot can handle the usb as a network device. Someone >> > has already tried this? >> >> I think it can be done, but you will now need a custom kernel. When moving >> the >> USB ethernet gadget driver from built-in to module Andy Green (IIRC) >> mentioned that someone needed it builtin for netbooting with rootfs on NFS. > > Booting with rootfs on nfs != netbooting. > > Netbooting gets a kernel from a tftpserver, while rootfs on nfs requires > a kernel already loaded. The problem here is that it's uncertain whether > uboot can handle the usb network interface (or wireless or bluetooth). > > -- > "There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you > do something we'd all love one another." > -- Frank Zappa > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community