Re: CD player replacement
- From: bobharvey <robertharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:02:37 -0700 (PDT)
On 23 Apr, 07:10, Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqv...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
To use PXE network boot your network card must have BIOS making it capable
to boot. Some network cards have a socket for placing a PROM with such a
BIOS. Many motherboards with builtin NICs also have such a BIOS which can
be enabled in the CMOS setup.
However, wireless network is a little bit more complex than wired lan. I
don't know if there are any wireless cards which it is possible to boot
from.
I have done both of these with the Epia motherboard. The board is now
at a friends house, and he boots DSL from a SD card in an IDE adaptor
instead. I've used a CF adaptor similarly.
I overcame the problem of setting up a wireless network card by using
a different wireless solution:
http://uk.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=12&l2=41&l3=0&l4=0&model=1710&modelmenu=1
used not in access point but in ethernet adaptor mode. You set it up
with a web browswer so it knows the SSID and WEP key, and it remembers
those. The mother board thinks it is on wired ethernet, and knows no
better.
At one time I had a tower of epia motherboards. One had a hard disk
and booted suse 8.3, and the others PXE booted from it and loaded a
ramdisk using tftp. Then /bin /usr /tmp etc etc (including, of
course, /etc) were NFS mounted. They all shared the same ones except /
tmp and /etc. It was a sort of compute engine for seti. Long gone,
of course. Wired ethernet, that one, with a switch in the tower too.
At the top, so the leds made it colourful. Gave it to a local school,
but the technology teacher left and the replacement chap didn't
understand it at all.
.
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