has anyone tried to include ndiswrapper in initramfs ?
Hi,
I was wondering if it would be easy to include ndiswrapper in initramfs. I have a "diskless" client that can boot the initrd and kernel from a USB key and mount the real root file system via NFS (root server).
Originally, I was using PXE instead of a local USB key. It worked fine but that required that I had some dhcp server running on some linux box, together with some tftp server somewhere on the network and that I had wired the client to the network (ethernet).
But then I thought I would just use a CF card or USB key to boot the initrd and kernel, and set the root boot param to the NFS share holding the root fs. It worked fine, I could turn off the dhcp and tftp services from the linux server I was using, but I still had to have the diskless client wired to request an IP from the dhcp server (my netgear router). Because the diskless client has a miniPCI wireless card only supported by ndiswrapper, I came to think about loading ndiswrapper
from the initrd at boot time so the wlan adapter would be the ip requester, instead of the ethernet adapter.
Did anyone do that ? and if yes, how do I modify the initramf-conf to achieve this ?
Thanks for any tip,
J.
Debian unstable
kernel 2.6.21 (custom build)
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