Re: network boot

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Spooner, Darren
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok I got that to work, but I turns out that my nics are not supported

I'm sorry to hear that. It would be useful to have the exact
vendor:device PCI IDs for the NICs you're trying to get working
(available in Device Manager under Windows, or the output of `lspci
-nn' under Linux), so that we can pinpoint which drivers are missing.

> Is there a way someone can develop dirvers for the intel pro 1000 MT
> and/or intel pro wireless 2915abg?
> And put them on the rom-o-matic site?

Drivers do not develop out of thin air. Wireless drivers especially
take a week or two of solid effort, even for someone who's done a lot
of them before.

If you are so inclined, you might consider learning the necessary
skills to develop a driver or drivers yourself; there are several
useful resources on http://etherboot.org/. If not, there are some very
skilled people in our community who do gPXE driver development under
contract. Our project leader, Marty Connor <[email protected]>, is one
and can refer you to others.

Otherwise, this is a volunteer project for all of us, and
unfortunately we can't take a week or two away from our jobs to
develop something for free. We do this because we enjoy it. Drivers
for those two types of cards will probably come about eventually if
you wait, but I can't estimate as to when.

Thanks for your interest,

-- Josh

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