is there any bios interrupt that send and receive packet over the net?
if I want to make a boot loader which communicate with other computer, what am I supposed to learn?
any keywords? documents?
thanks
The standard PC BIOS has no runtime APIs for network communication.
Pretty much the only networking code you find in a BIOS is the PXE boot loader, which provides a pre-boot environment for downloading a kernel from a network server and executing it. This does not provide any post-boot runtime services though.
If you want to do network communication while you are running from disk, you need to implement your own networking stack.
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I have a raspberry pi 4 and a pc, I have to transfer files at very high speed than Ethernet and WIFI
if any possible methods are there Please tell me?
I'm not too sure if you're saying you want to transfer files over something other than wifi or Ethernet? If so, USB A to USB A should work for you. PCIe are downstream slots which you would be unable to connect to another system using that method. If you are able to plug up to each of the systems using ethernet, that's probably your easiest choice. As long as you bridge the connections and allow file printing and sharing, you should be able to see the system in your file explorer.
I have created a BLE peripheral that exposes a GATT service. It uses BlueZ 5.50, but it seems that only one device can connect to the GATT service. When the device is connected, then other devices can't see it anymore. It's not showing up in a scan anymore and if it was already scanned, then I can't connect to it anymore.
It seems to be a limitation or configuration issue in BlueZ, because when using the Paypal GATT library it can handle multiple connections. As far as I know, the RPi3 BLE chip should be able to handle up to 10 connections.
Does anyone know if this can be done using BlueZ?
The Paypal GATT library directly connects to the HCI device and bypasses most of the kernel stuff. BlueZ depends on kernel drivers and user-space applications and is capable if the driver reports that the controller allows multiple connections. You need a decent BLE controller and a recent kernel to make it work.
More information can be found in https://github.com/bluez/bluez/issues/12.
I am just learning about embedded systems and checking about wifi modules. I see in the datasheet they mention about a core processor that is integrated with rf SoC. I also see another processor on the MCU called application processor. I am confused about its purpose. What is it used for? Can someone please clarify? For reference, I was reading about the ATSAMW25 module.
Typically, devices that include wireless technologies (whether its Bluetooth/BLE, WiFi, LoRa, etc) include both the hardware required to manage the wireless connectivity and then separate hardware for running the higher-level application of the system. Frequently, managing the wireless protocol is intensive enough that it is best done with its own small processor running its own firmware to deal with connectivity and sending data over the link and might include a fair amount of proprietary firmware from the vendor (ie, Microchip in your example). To enable programmers to write their own code for the system, these protocol processors are paired with application processors, ones for whom the development tools and documentation are more openly available to developers for implementing whatever they want to do with the module. By separating the two operations (wireless/protocol and application), the code developers implement has less chance of causing fundamental problems for the wireless connectivity (like, application code hanging causes entire WiFi networks to fail) and the proprietary aspects of the system can be better protected (or another way, more documentation can be provided to developers without signing an NDA as the application processor is more "open" while the details of the wireless implementation are usually not).
In the case of the module youre looking at, the wireless hardware is all inside the ATWINC1500 and is accessed via SPI and some other GPIO by the SAMD21G (the application processor). All the code you write for the module end up running on the SAMD21G with some library/driver support to implement the wireless functions (which under the hood, are implemented by talking to the ATWINC1500). The ATWINC1500 simply runs the code the vendor (Microchip) wrote to actually do all the wireless protocol work and provides an interface for another processor (in this module, the SAMD21G) to control it.
I am aware this question is howto oriented, but I am getting desperate. Lets say some computer has more than one hardware network interface, eth0 and wlan0, the first one is onboard Ethernet port, the other one represents PCI WiFi card. What I would like to achieve is that the my Qt app while running, can detect if someone (for testing purposes, I myself) in operating system disconnects computer from LAN. Once app detects link failure, it tries to connect to same LAN via other available interface, wlan0 or vice versa.
I am reading Qt 5 Bearer management docs, but I simply do not get needed info. Now, should I open QNetworkSession with open() and connect to QNetworkSession::stateChanged(QNetworkSession::State state) or are there any other ways to do it in Qt fashion?
I'm writing a mini OS just for fun. I want to save some key information to one securiry server on the Internet and ever fetch it BEFORE booting my OS.
So my problem is: How to access the Internet only via BIOS? i.e. How to use the TCP protocol in BIOS environment?
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It is obvious that diskless workstations use such a technique. So it is technically possible.
Diskless workstations use PXE which is part of NIC (network card) ROM or a BIOS extension, it's a simple environment that implements TCP/IP stack that can get a executable over TFTP and run it.
There is an open source one that you could modify iPXE to your needs and replace your existing PXE ROM.
I don't think that this is possible. You need to implement a network driver into the BIOS to achiving that. So I would say this is not possible. By the way I never read that someone wrote his/her own BIOS.
If you have an ethernet port on your pc/router buy a Gil.Net router and connect it wirelessly to your home router and then plug in the router