Of possible interest to folks here. I wonder if Shad is the first person in the world to boot from a USB stick and install Windows over wireless.
- Pat
--- Begin Message ---I was successfully (although slowly) able to install XP Pro with a usb/wireless method. Even better was that the wireless was encrypted. The machine booted correctly and discovered the wireless card on its own. The card uses the orinoco driver. It then tried both eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless) for dhcp. Of course both failed because of the non-broadcast ssid and the encryption. Once it failed I ran iwconfig to see if it picked up the card as wireless and it did. Output follows: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"HERMES I" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457Ghz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS Thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0/92 Signal level:134/153 Noise level:134/153 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crpyt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 After discovering that the card was indeed detected I ran iwconfig passing the ssid and key necessary to active the wireless network. On a side note I tried the encryption key as both "0000-0000..." format as well as "s:Passphrase" and they both worked. Format as: iwconfig eth1 essid "ESSID" enc "s:Passphrase" Then the iwconfig showed the following: eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"ESSID" Nickname:"HERMES I" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457Ghz Access Point: 00:C0:49:xx:xx:xx Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 Retry limit:4 RTS Thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xx Power Management:off Link Quality:41/92 Signal level:-53 dBm Noise level:-93 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crpyt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Once I saw I was connected to the access point I then re-ran the /etc/master script and things took of as they should and Windows XP installed like a champ. Appears that we just now need some way to pass essid/enc key to the boot process. Once this is done then I'm ready to install most of the laptops that way. :) Thanks for your great work on this, -Shad
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