Andy Fletcher wrote:
Wednesday, April 23, 2008, 10:33:53 AM, Mark Rogers wrote:
I would have assumed that if there was BIOS-level support for the
wireless hardware there'd be no reason it wouldn't work, and that the
chances of the BIOS supporting it would be minimal making the first
point redundant. However, a PC cabled to a wireless access point should
work? I have no idea to be honest.
You wont get a wifi card to netboot (think about the requirement for
drivers to support WPA/WEP/Whatever, not to mention setting a key).
That's what I was thinking (there's no reason for a BIOS not to have
drivers built in to allow this, and to allow key setup via the BIOS as
well, but to my knowledge none do and I can't think of a compelling
reason why they would, although maybe a LinuxBIOS system could?)
However, I still would assume that the PXE boot would work over wireless
using a wireless access point (ie AP configured and working separately,
PC connected to the AP via ethernet, PC should be able to perform PXE
boot through the AP). Ie if there were a requirement for a wireless PXE
boot it could be achieved by putting at AP on the desk next to the PC.
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