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. 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. 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. > ( The ethernet chip appears to be an SiS 900; untested driver > available here: <http://www.pcwave.com/driver.html> ) 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'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. Another reason for moving the boot disk to Linux :-). - Pat ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
