On Samstag, Juli 5, 2003, at 05:08 Uhr, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Soeren Kuklau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
those 16 laptops we've received have both 10/100 ethernet as well as wireless LAN (802.11b). Unfortunately, their documentation does not make it clear what kind of chips are being used. None of the currently available drivers on the unattended CD work for either chip.
Yeah, identifying the network hardware can be a pain.
If you enable PXE and attempt a network boot, you should get some kind of banner from the PXE stack even if the boot fails. That should give you a hint.
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082) [Copyright blah] SiS900 PXE BootROM v1.09 Hook Int19
So that's just the internal ethernet chip, not the wireless LAN one. Perhaps booting off wireless LAN chips is simply not possible yet? A search by MAC address ( <http://www.shmoo.com/cgi-bin/mac_search.cgi?query=00-a0-cc> ) reveals that it is actually maintained by Lite-On, not SiS (nor MaxData, the laptop vendor).
I finally found a "Wireless Configuration Utility" on the CD from Broadcom. It reveals that the chipset is "BCM4301BO / BCM2051A1", and that the MAC address is from Gemtek: <http://www.shmoo.com/cgi-bin/mac_search.cgi?query=00-90-4b> .
Which brings us to <http://www.gemtek.com.tw/faq_download.htm> . None of those appears to work, though (and all zip files appear to consist only of win32 installers).
You could probably use the tools on Bart's Boot Disk to autodetect the hardware. I have not yet had time to try this myself.
The web site appears to be down right now.
What I do is boot from the RedHat 9 CD in "rescue" mode. (Just type "linux rescue" at the first prompt.) Then I just run lspci, which lists all of the devices in the system.
"lspci" from Gentoo Linux's live cd finds:
"00:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4301 802.11b (rev 02)"
"lspci -v" (verbose mode) mentions that it's "Unknown device 0407".
Unfortunately, this does not tell me how this chip is connected - whether it is on-board, MiniPCI, some sort of internal PCMCIA, or whatever. Even though the CD driver has "MINIPCI" in its name, MaxData claims that the laptop does not have any kind of MiniPCI interface.
I found a more recent driver on the SiS site and rolled a new ISO image to incorporate it. Could you please download bootdisk.iso from <http://unattended.sourceforge.net/testing/> and try it out?
I'm sorry. The floppy drive isn't here and won't be for a few weeks. Thus no way for me to test it ("Non-System disk or disk error").
I've also tried to find similar WLAN chip DOS drivers. All I found was an MS-DOS exe program which, according to its readme, would contact an access point to test the connection. Do such drivers exist at all, or are we limited to ethernet?
It would not surprise me if you could not use wireless cards with DOS.
I'll have to complain at MS! ;-)
Another reason for moving the boot disk to Linux :-).
At present time, this wouldn't help: <http://www.petitiononline.com/BCM4301/> (I do not consider petitions an effective means). A query at Google reveals no non-Windows drivers at all.
I expect the SiS900 you now include in Unattended to work just fine, though. Installing Windows over WLAN would be a great thing, but obviously something from the future :-)
-- S�ren 'Chucker' Kuklau <http://www.chucker.rasdi.net/>
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