[K12OSN] Wireless - TC boot status

[Les Mikesell]

On 10/27/2010 4:22 PM, Barry Cisna wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Thinking more about this (providing someone with more smarts than me),
> It seems on a mobo that has onboard wifi,a person could somehow dump
> some code into the bios that would throw pxe into the wifi options,
> (along with the afformentioned scanning for AP's).
> I remember way back in the first versions of K12LTSP  doing the bios mod
> to old p133 mobos with onboard nics that dumped etherboot on to the
> bios. As I recall you used an advanced version of flash.exe and the
> like. There was always enough spare space on the bios chip that would
> allow this code to be added.
> It worked slicker than snot,as this was when pxe was just coming on to
> the scene,and etherboot was still the choice.
> It made an useless dumpster bound p133 box have some life anyways,,other
> than being big as a Cadillac they worked and still do work fine with
> K12LTSP!
> Here is a good challenge for someone.,,,:)

The thing is, I'm not sure you'd want to pxe boot over wifi, especially 
something old that might only have b protocol or if you have a lot of 
units booting at once.  Probably what you really want is a USB/flash 
boot into something running the NX client with a painless way to keep 
the boot image up to date - like being able to run from ramdisk while 
overwriting the boot image if a change is needed, or having enough flash 
for two copies and a way to copy the new one in and toggle which is used 
for the next boot.  That way you'd only have to copy the image over when 
it changes.

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   Les Mikesell
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