[U-Boot] mini-pci wireless driver

LanceZ Lance.Zhang at taihootech.com
Thu Nov 13 02:25:53 CET 2008


Hi Wolfgang 

Thanks for the reply, I am not really want to support the TCP/IP ,
Wnat I do is to add the wireless network card to uboot then I can load OS
firmware from another computer(maybe through tftp wlan)


wd wrote:
> 
> Dear "Lance Zhang",
> 
> In message
> <49EF8B38CAABF74C8FFEA1405FDFBE923CD361 at suzexch01.taihootech.com> you
> wrote:
>> 
>> My questions are: How can I support wireless network card on U Boot?
> 
> Correct. And there is no support for TCP/IP einther, nor do  we  have
> X11  or  Gnome,  and  there is neither Eclipse nor Firefox available,
> not even OpenOffice or iSCSI support.
> 
> To make the story short: U-Boot  is  a  boot  loader,  and  a  pretty
> powerful one, but there are certain tasks where it makes sense to use
> an OS.
> 
>> I want to implement a wlan mini-pci driver, But when I see U Boot source
>> tree, there is no codes related to wireless, do you have any suggestion
>> on how to add wireless support on U Boot? Or is there any U Boot
>> branches that have already implemented wireless extension on U boot?
> 
> Don't waste your time. Use U-Boot to boot asmall configuration of
> Linux with WLAN support included, and use this to do whjat you want to
> do.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
> 
> 
> 

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