[clug] wireless PXE boot and pxe live

[Christopher Zhang]

Hi Bob,

I have an Intel PRO 3945 wireless card, it probably doesn't have a  
PXE ROM on it.

The reason I asked if it was possible to boot from wireless was that  
my laptop doesn't have a cd-rom, I wondered if I could just setup a  
tftp server and install with nothing attached.

I did read about an article on the net that some guy got it working  
even the wireless card didn't have a pxe. (probably most don't  
anyway)  He used his normal network card to trick the system to  
believe the wireless card has the capacity, something with do with  
multicast, and did some other tricks, then using wireless just for  
transmission if I remembered it right. I can't find the article anymore.

Cheers

Chris

On 21/08/2006, at 11:16 AM, Robert Edwards wrote:

>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Out of curiosity, what wireless card do you have with a PXE ROM on it?
>
> I can imagine that it is possible if the card has a PXE ROM, but I can
> also see lots of reasons as to why it would be quite inadvisable - at
> the point of booting, the machine has almost no way of identifying who
> it is really getting the boot image from. Anyone could set up a  
> wireless
> AP with a PXE server and then your client could install their image.
> Could be a great way to install malware, perform man-in-the-middle
> attacks or any other similar sorts of "fun".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob Edwards.
>
> Chris wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>  Is it possible to boot from an image remotely using PXE boot but  
>> through a
>> wireless link? I was under the impression that wireless didn't have
>> multicast which is used by DHCP?  Also is it possible to boot a  
>> Live CD through PXE? I fiddled around with
>> netinstall files and got as far as to boot a Live Ubuntu CD kernel  
>> half way
>> through, then it waited for root file system. I changed the  
>> setting to all
>> sorts but to no avail. I think this might be possible, does anyone  
>> have
>> better experience with it?
>>  Thanks
>> Chris
>
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