[gPXE] RTL-8185 staging/oremanj-4-wireless iwstat no output

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:34 AM, gregwm <etherboot at greatlakedata.com> wrote:
>> gPXE isn't seeing your rtl8185 card at all. Is this a laptop with the
>> card built-in or something? Sometimes there's something special that
>> has to be done to enable it... check your BIOS for appropriate
>> settings.
>>
>> Also try
>>  nm bin/gpxe.lkrn.tmp | grep obj_rtl818
>> to make sure the rtl8185 driver is actually compiled in.
>
> it's a PCMCIA Trendnet TEW-421PC inserted in a Thinkpad 2684-G8U, i don't
> expect the BIOS has a clue about it, it works great in w2k, knoppix6.3, and
> ubuntu hardy, tho surprisingly the drivers in intrepid, jaunty, and
> centos5.4 do not seem to make it work.

Aha - it's probably a recent change to the Linux kernel driver, then.
I made the gPXE driver at the beginning of the summer and haven't
updated it much since. It also might be a distro-specific patch.

Can you determine the Linux kernel versions that do and don't work?

-- Josh