Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
On 4/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Devan Lippman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless Another option I've been toying with is creating a small bootloader on a CF that would bring up the wireless and load the network image. Thats a lot of work, but it'd be pretty cool. Especially with the prospects of mfd. Devan I've been trying to figure out Etherboot. I understand that I could probably boot from a floppy and load the wireless adapter's drivers, then boot from DHCP/BOOTP but I can't find a wireless adapter that is supported by Etherboot. Have you found such an adapter? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users No, you'd have to do it in software. -- Thanks, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
I haven't done this with myth, but I have done it with linux, booting from floppy. It was like a year and half ago, so I don't remember all the details, but check out the LTSP project, they have stuff to netboot wireless clients for use as thinclients, but I don't see why you couldn't adapt some of that to your purposes. Todd On 4/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Devan Lippman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless Another option I've been toying with is creating a small bootloader on a CF that would bring up the wireless and load the network image. Thats a lot of work, but it'd be pretty cool. Especially with the prospects of mfd. Devan I've been trying to figure out Etherboot. I understand that I could probably boot from a floppy and load the wireless adapter's drivers, then boot from DHCP/BOOTP but I can't find a wireless adapter that is supported by Etherboot. Have you found such an adapter? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
On 4/25/05, Todd French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't done this with myth, but I have done it with linux, booting from floppy. It was like a year and half ago, so I don't remember all the details, but check out the LTSP project, they have stuff to netboot wireless clients for use as thinclients, but I don't see why you couldn't adapt some of that to your purposes. Todd Actually LTSP looks like I would work great off a compact flash to get the image loaded from a server wirelessly. The problem with wireless is there no PROM on any that I've seen for putting a network bootloader on (thats essentially what PXE is). I may be giving this a shot when I get my EPIA in and just change the target image to be an autoloading mythfrontend with mfd. -- Thanks, Devan Lippman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
[mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
I was just wondering if anyone has successfully set up a wireless and diskless system. I guess I'm finding that almost all wireless adapters don't have PXE abilities and since it would require the authentication credentials to be stored on the card itself, its not likely to be cheap. Has anyone done this cheaply? I'd like to be able to run wireless/diskless Gentoo frontends. Thanks, Moasat ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
On 4/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if anyone has successfully set up a wireless and diskless system. I guess I'm finding that almost all wireless adapters don't have PXE abilities and since it would require the authentication credentials to be stored on the card itself, its not likely to be cheap. Has anyone done this cheaply? I'd like to be able to run wireless/diskless Gentoo frontends. Thanks, Moasat You could get a wireless bridge. Something like the Linksys WET54GS5 should work fine with what you want to do. Tom ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
On 4/24/05, Moasat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if anyone has successfully set up a wireless and diskless system. I guess I'm finding that almost all wireless adapters don't have PXE abilities and since it would require the authentication credentials to be stored on the card itself, its not likely to be cheap. Has anyone done this cheaply? I'd like to be able to run wireless/diskless Gentoo frontends. Another option I've been toying with is creating a small bootloader on a CF that would bring up the wireless and load the network image. Thats a lot of work, but it'd be pretty cool. Especially with the prospects of mfd. Devan ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
RE: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless
-Original Message- From: Devan Lippman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Diskless/Wireless Another option I've been toying with is creating a small bootloader on a CF that would bring up the wireless and load the network image. Thats a lot of work, but it'd be pretty cool. Especially with the prospects of mfd. Devan I've been trying to figure out Etherboot. I understand that I could probably boot from a floppy and load the wireless adapter's drivers, then boot from DHCP/BOOTP but I can't find a wireless adapter that is supported by Etherboot. Have you found such an adapter? ___ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
