Booting to Wireless LAN

Question

We have a Dell Latitude D531 with a 1390 WLAN Mini-Card for wireless connectivity. We are running Windows Xp as well. Here is my question. We are attempting to image several of these systems using Symantec Ghost Suite and were curious if the wireless cards could be booted to for network imaging. Obviously you can boot to the onboard NIC and do this but it would be much easier with the laptops to do this wirelessly. My assumption is that this card is not of a high enough standard to do this but there are wireless cards that will, just not the 1390. Am I right or have I made a mistake on this? I checked in the BIOS for setting to boot to WLAN but there are none on this machine. Any help would be appreciated. John G

jmwills · Answer

Not possible.  Even if it were, it would be soooooooooooo painfully slow to image that way.

jmranchman · Answer

Thanks for the response jmwillis. I have read several responses to posts on the Symantec website about this and others seem to use it, booting to wireless LAN. I know it can be done just not sure exactly how. Anyway, thanks for the response regardless.

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