[syslinux] Announce: Universal network boot floppy/cd/hd 5.4.0 released

[Quinn]

This is difficult.  The closest you could get is if it was a Cardbus 
based wireless card that automatically connects to the first unsecure 
wireless net and that is recognized by 3Com's mba bootware on floppy or 
Microsoft's RIS floppy - even then, I am not even sure they support 
wireless at all, unless the wireless card emulates another card which 
these boot floppies recognize.  You best bet is to use Cardbus based 
cards since they hook directly into the PCI bus without the need for 
socket services or card services.

I have had success with 3Com's mba bootware to boot a laptop with 3Com's 
3C575 based Cardbus cards.


Casey Woods wrote:

> Hi Paolo,
> Does your network boot package work for wireless PCMCIA?
>
> We're converting about 200 PCs at an elementary school  to LTSP right 
> now and most of them work fine because they have a net boot option in 
> the bios.
>
> Unfortunately, I have about 20 laptops that all have D-Link DWL-650+ 
> 802.11b wireless cards.  Even worse, they need the ACX100 driver 
> (http://acx100.sourceforge.net).  My options right now are pretty 
> limited.  The only distro I've found that will actually recognize and 
> configure the card is Ubuntu.  Mainstream Linux supports appears to be 
> sparse at this point.
>
> I really need a way to boot these laptops so that we can run them as 
> thin clients.  Installing Linux is an option but becomes a bit 
> difficult to manager in the long term.  I'm open to any suggestions 
> because the alternative is to buy 30 new cards and that will be 
> expensive.  Do you have any ideas?
>
> I'm particularly interested in wireless support because we have run 
> out of lab space in the school.  Any new computers that  we add will 
> have to be laptops in a mobile lab.
>
> Thanks,
> Casey Woods
>
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