11da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Wireless LAN device configuration 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds 52a5e1c0eSJohannes Bergmenu "Wireless LAN" 6f54bfc0eSMartin Schwidefsky depends on !S390 72a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 82a5e1c0eSJohannes Bergconfig WLAN_PRE80211 92a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg bool "Wireless LAN (pre-802.11)" 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NETDEVICES 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 122a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg Say Y if you have any pre-802.11 wireless LAN hardware. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 142a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg This option does not affect the kernel build, it only 1542431592SJohn W. Linville lets you choose drivers. 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STRIP 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)" 192a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on INET && WLAN_PRE80211 202a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet 251da177e4SLinus Torvalds traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery 261da177e4SLinus Torvalds powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and 271da177e4SLinus Torvalds weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called 281da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads 291da177e4SLinus Torvalds many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a 301da177e4SLinus Torvalds phone line and use it as a modem.) 311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 321da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although 331da177e4SLinus Torvalds it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you 341da177e4SLinus Torvalds think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm 351da177e4SLinus Torvalds in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit 361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bigger. 371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be 391da177e4SLinus Torvalds called strip. 401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ARLAN 421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support" 432a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on ISA && !64BIT && WLAN_PRE80211 442a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the 471da177e4SLinus Torvalds www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards. 481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at 491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information. 501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time. 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it. 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig WAVELAN 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support" 592a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on ISA && WLAN_PRE80211 602a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz. 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds information is contained in 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>. 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also need the wireless tools package available from 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the man pages contained therein. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds called wavelan. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_WAVELAN 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support" 822a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211 832a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This 871da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards. 881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N. 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_NETWAVE 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support" 942a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211 952a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card) 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N. 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1032a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 1042a5e1c0eSJohannes Bergconfig WLAN_80211 1052a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)" 1062a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on NETDEVICES 1072a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg ---help--- 1082a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware. 1092a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 1102a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg This option does not affect the kernel build, it only 11142431592SJohn W. Linville lets you choose drivers. 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_RAYCS 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support" 1152a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211 1162a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds called ray_cs. If unsure, say N. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1262c86c275SJames Ketrenosconfig IPW2100 1272c86c275SJames Ketrenos tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection" 1282a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 1292a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 1302c86c275SJames Ketrenos select FW_LOADER 1314ddc1651SJan Niehusmann select IEEE80211 1322c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1332c86c275SJames Ketrenos A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network 1342c86c275SJames Ketrenos Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter. 1352c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1362c86c275SJames Ketrenos See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on 1372c86c275SJames Ketrenos the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips 1382c86c275SJames Ketrenos for debugging issues and problems. 1392c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1402c86c275SJames Ketrenos In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it. 1412c86c275SJames Ketrenos You can obtain the firmware from 1422c86c275SJames Ketrenos <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you 143afcd0241SJesper Juhl will need to place it in /lib/firmware. 1442c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1452c86c275SJames Ketrenos You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 1462c86c275SJames Ketrenos configure your card: 1472c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1482c86c275SJames Ketrenos <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 1492c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1502c86c275SJames Ketrenos If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 1519c782e3bSAlex Shepard inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 15239f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 15339f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called ipw2100.ko. 1542c86c275SJames Ketrenos 15553788015SJiri Bencconfig IPW2100_MONITOR 1562c86c275SJames Ketrenos bool "Enable promiscuous mode" 1572c86c275SJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2100 1582c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1592c86c275SJames Ketrenos Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver. 1602c86c275SJames Ketrenos With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to 1612c86c275SJames Ketrenos promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this 1622c86c275SJames Ketrenos mode, no packets can be sent. 1632c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1640f52bf90SBrice Goglinconfig IPW2100_DEBUG 1652c86c275SJames Ketrenos bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module." 1662c86c275SJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2100 1672c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1682c86c275SJames Ketrenos This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100. 1692c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1702c86c275SJames Ketrenos This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can 1712c86c275SJames Ketrenos control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the 1722c86c275SJames Ketrenos value in 1732c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1742c86c275SJames Ketrenos /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level 1752c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1762c86c275SJames Ketrenos This entry will only exist if this option is enabled. 1772c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1782c86c275SJames Ketrenos If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you 1792c86c275SJames Ketrenos most likely want to say N here. 1802c86c275SJames Ketrenos 18143f66a6cSJames Ketrenosconfig IPW2200 18243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection" 1832a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 1842a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 18543f66a6cSJames Ketrenos select FW_LOADER 1864ddc1651SJan Niehusmann select IEEE80211 18743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos ---help--- 18843f66a6cSJames Ketrenos A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network 18943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos Connection adapters. 19043f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 19143f66a6cSJames Ketrenos See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for 19243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos information on the capabilities currently enabled in this 19343f66a6cSJames Ketrenos driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems. 19443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 19543f66a6cSJames Ketrenos In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it. 19643f66a6cSJames Ketrenos You can obtain the firmware from 19743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200 19847c51431SJon Mason for information on where to install the firmware images. 19943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20043f66a6cSJames Ketrenos You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 20143f66a6cSJames Ketrenos configure your card: 20243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20343f66a6cSJames Ketrenos <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 20443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20543f66a6cSJames Ketrenos If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 2069c782e3bSAlex Shepard inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 20739f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 20839f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called ipw2200.ko. 20943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 2102c0f6316SAndreas Happeconfig IPW2200_MONITOR 2112c0f6316SAndreas Happe bool "Enable promiscuous mode" 2122c0f6316SAndreas Happe depends on IPW2200 2132c0f6316SAndreas Happe ---help--- 2142c0f6316SAndreas Happe Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver. 2152c0f6316SAndreas Happe With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to 2162c0f6316SAndreas Happe promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this 2172c0f6316SAndreas Happe mode, no packets can be sent. 2182c0f6316SAndreas Happe 21934f8ae46SZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_RADIOTAP 22034f8ae46SZhu Yi bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support" 22134f8ae46SZhu Yi depends on IPW2200_MONITOR 22234f8ae46SZhu Yi 22334f8ae46SZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS 22434f8ae46SZhu Yi bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface" 22534f8ae46SZhu Yi depends on IPW2200_MONITOR 22634f8ae46SZhu Yi select IPW2200_RADIOTAP 22734f8ae46SZhu Yi ---help--- 22834f8ae46SZhu Yi Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'. 22934f8ae46SZhu Yi This second interface will provide every received in radiotap 23034f8ae46SZhu Yi format. 23134f8ae46SZhu Yi 23234f8ae46SZhu Yi This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while 23334f8ae46SZhu Yi maintaining an active association. 23434f8ae46SZhu Yi 23534f8ae46SZhu Yi Example usage: 23634f8ae46SZhu Yi 23734f8ae46SZhu Yi % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1 23834f8ae46SZhu Yi % ifconfig rtap0 up 23934f8ae46SZhu Yi % tethereal -i rtap0 24034f8ae46SZhu Yi 24134f8ae46SZhu Yi If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then 24234f8ae46SZhu Yi the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn 24334f8ae46SZhu Yi it on via sysfs: 24434f8ae46SZhu Yi 24534f8ae46SZhu Yi % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface 24634f8ae46SZhu Yi 247e43e3c1eSZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_QOS 2482c0f6316SAndreas Happe bool "Enable QoS support" 2492c0f6316SAndreas Happe depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL 2502c0f6316SAndreas Happe 2510f52bf90SBrice Goglinconfig IPW2200_DEBUG 25243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module." 25343f66a6cSJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2200 25443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos ---help--- 25501d47833SZhu Yi This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200. 25643f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 25701d47833SZhu Yi Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level 25801d47833SZhu Yi debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and 25901d47833SZhu Yi will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users 26001d47833SZhu Yi will typically not need this high verbosity debug information. 26143f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 26201d47833SZhu Yi If you are not sure, say N here. 26343f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 264084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS 265084708b6SHolger Schurig tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support" 266084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on WLAN_80211 267d8efea25SDan Williams select IEEE80211 268876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti select FW_LOADER 269876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti ---help--- 270084708b6SHolger Schurig A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices. 271084708b6SHolger Schurig 272084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS_USB 273084708b6SHolger Schurig tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards" 274084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on LIBERTAS && USB 275084708b6SHolger Schurig ---help--- 276876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices. 277876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti 27827590d06SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS_CS 27927590d06SHolger Schurig tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash 802.11b/g cards" 28027590d06SHolger Schurig depends on LIBERTAS && PCMCIA && EXPERIMENTAL 28127590d06SHolger Schurig select FW_LOADER 28227590d06SHolger Schurig ---help--- 28327590d06SHolger Schurig A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash devices. 28427590d06SHolger Schurig 285727c26edSPierre Ossmanconfig LIBERTAS_SDIO 286727c26edSPierre Ossman tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO 802.11b/g cards" 287727c26edSPierre Ossman depends on LIBERTAS && MMC 288727c26edSPierre Ossman ---help--- 289727c26edSPierre Ossman A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO devices. 290727c26edSPierre Ossman 291084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS_DEBUG 292084708b6SHolger Schurig bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module." 293084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on LIBERTAS 294876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti ---help--- 295876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti Debugging support. 296876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti 2971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AIRO 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards" 2992a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN) 3002a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 301a39d3e79SAdrian Bunk select CRYPTO 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI 802.11 wireless cards. 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco 30747c51431SJon Mason acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo". 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HERMES 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)" 3172a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211 3182a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 32009509603SMatt LaPlante A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges) 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco, 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya, 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel 3280f39c4abSJohn W. Linville IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others. 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below. 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works : 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html> 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APPLE_AIRPORT 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)" 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with 345f1f56623SMichael Buesch a non-standard interface. 346f1f56623SMichael Buesch 347f1f56623SMichael Buesch This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use 348f1f56623SMichael Buesch the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PLX_HERMES 3518c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)" 3528c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds MA301 is such an adaptor. 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMD_HERMES 3628c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support" 3638c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 371ec829051SPavel Roskinconfig NORTEL_HERMES 372ec829051SPavel Roskin tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support" 373ec829051SPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 374ec829051SPavel Roskin help 375ec829051SPavel Roskin Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 376ec829051SPavel Roskin orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These 377ec829051SPavel Roskin adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited 378ec829051SPavel Roskin PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. 379ec829051SPavel Roskin 3801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCI_HERMES 3818c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support" 3828c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds this variety. 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_HERMES 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support" 3922a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && HERMES 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/ 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN. 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 401cfbde697SFaidon Liambotis You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works: 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4053a48c4c2SPavel Roskinconfig PCMCIA_SPECTRUM 4063a48c4c2SPavel Roskin tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support" 4072a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && HERMES 408e4a9af98SAdrian Bunk select FW_LOADER 4093a48c4c2SPavel Roskin ---help--- 4103a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 4113a48c4c2SPavel Roskin This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol 4123a48c4c2SPavel Roskin firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash 4133a48c4c2SPavel Roskin cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B. 4143a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 4153a48c4c2SPavel Roskin This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities 4163a48c4c2SPavel Roskin for downloading Symbol firmware are available at 4173a48c4c2SPavel Roskin <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/> 4183a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 419e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig ATMEL 420e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support" 421e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211 422e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select WIRELESS_EXT 423e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select FW_LOADER 424e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select CRC32 425e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 426e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet 427e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions. 428e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 429e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory 430e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is 431e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image 432e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel 433e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis firmware package can be downloaded from 434e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel> 435e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 436e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig PCI_ATMEL 437e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards" 438e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on ATMEL && PCI 439e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 440e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the 441e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Atmel at76c506 chip. 442e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 443e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig PCMCIA_ATMEL 444e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards" 445e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA 446e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select WIRELESS_EXT 447e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select FW_LOADER 448e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select CRC32 449e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 450e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the 451e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips. 452e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 4531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AIRO_CS 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards" 4552a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211 4562a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 457a39d3e79SAdrian Bunk select CRYPTO 4588fa9ea18SRobert Schulze select CRYPTO_AES 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package. 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco 46547c51431SJon Mason acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b cards. 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_WL3501 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards" 4752a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211 4762a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet. 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds micro support for ethtool. 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PRISM54 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus' 4842a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211 4852a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FW_LOADER 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards: 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>. 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards: 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 497c8920ba0SDaniel Andersen 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1) 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card 4991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Compex WL54G Cardbus Card 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well. 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890. 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page: 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://prism54.org> 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds a current hotplug package. 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 52639f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 52739f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called prism54.ko. 5281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5295c601d0cSPavel Machekconfig USB_ZD1201 5305c601d0cSPavel Machek tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support" 5312a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on USB && WLAN_80211 5322a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 5335c601d0cSPavel Machek select FW_LOADER 5345c601d0cSPavel Machek ---help--- 5355c601d0cSPavel Machek Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS 5365c601d0cSPavel Machek ZD1201 chip. 5375c601d0cSPavel Machek 5385c601d0cSPavel Machek This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface, 5395c601d0cSPavel Machek typically on wlan0. 5405c601d0cSPavel Machek 5415c601d0cSPavel Machek The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded. 5425c601d0cSPavel Machek This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/ 5435c601d0cSPavel Machek 5445c601d0cSPavel Machek To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 5455c601d0cSPavel Machek module will be called zd1201. 5465c601d0cSPavel Machek 547605bebe2SMichael Wuconfig RTL8187 548605bebe2SMichael Wu tristate "Realtek 8187 USB support" 549605bebe2SMichael Wu depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL 550605bebe2SMichael Wu select EEPROM_93CX6 551605bebe2SMichael Wu ---help--- 552605bebe2SMichael Wu This is a driver for RTL8187 based cards. 553605bebe2SMichael Wu These are USB based chips found in cards such as: 554605bebe2SMichael Wu 555605bebe2SMichael Wu Netgear WG111v2 556605bebe2SMichael Wu 557605bebe2SMichael Wu Thanks to Realtek for their support! 558605bebe2SMichael Wu 559cc0b88cfSMichael Wuconfig ADM8211 560cc0b88cfSMichael Wu tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support" 561cc0b88cfSMichael Wu depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL 562cc0b88cfSMichael Wu select CRC32 563cc0b88cfSMichael Wu select EEPROM_93CX6 564cc0b88cfSMichael Wu ---help--- 565cc0b88cfSMichael Wu This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards. 566cc0b88cfSMichael Wu These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as: 567cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 568cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b 569cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Blitz NetWave Point PC 570cc0b88cfSMichael Wu TrendNet 221pc 571cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Belkin F5D6001 572cc0b88cfSMichael Wu SMC 2635W 573cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Linksys WPC11 v1 574cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Fiberline FL-WL-200X 575cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796) 576cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Corega WLPCIB-11 577cc0b88cfSMichael Wu SMC 2602W V2 EU 578cc0b88cfSMichael Wu D-Link DWL-520 Revision C 579cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 580cc0b88cfSMichael Wu However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips 581cc0b88cfSMichael Wu like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or 582cc0b88cfSMichael Wu the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change. 583cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 584cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver. 585cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 586eff1a59cSMichael Wuconfig P54_COMMON 587eff1a59cSMichael Wu tristate "Softmac Prism54 support" 588eff1a59cSMichael Wu depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && FW_LOADER && EXPERIMENTAL 589*7d2e941bSMichael Wu ---help--- 590*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This is common code for isl38xx based cards. 591*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This module does nothing by itself - the USB/PCI frontends 592*7d2e941bSMichael Wu also need to be enabled in order to support any devices. 593*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 594*7d2e941bSMichael Wu These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at 595*7d2e941bSMichael Wu http://prism54.org/ 596*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 597*7d2e941bSMichael Wu If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54common. 598eff1a59cSMichael Wu 599eff1a59cSMichael Wuconfig P54_USB 600eff1a59cSMichael Wu tristate "Prism54 USB support" 601eff1a59cSMichael Wu depends on P54_COMMON && USB 602eff1a59cSMichael Wu select CRC32 603*7d2e941bSMichael Wu ---help--- 604*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This driver is for USB isl38xx based wireless cards. 605*7d2e941bSMichael Wu These are USB based adapters found in devices such as: 606*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 607*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 3COM 3CRWE254G72 608*7d2e941bSMichael Wu SMC 2862W-G 609*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Accton 802.11g WN4501 USB 610*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Siemens Gigaset USB 611*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Netgear WG121 612*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Netgear WG111 613*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Medion 40900, Roper Europe 614*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Shuttle PN15, Airvast WM168g, IOGear GWU513 615*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Linksys WUSB54G 616*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Linksys WUSB54G Portable 617*7d2e941bSMichael Wu DLink DWL-G120 Spinnaker 618*7d2e941bSMichael Wu DLink DWL-G122 619*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Belkin F5D7050 ver 1000 620*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Cohiba Proto board 621*7d2e941bSMichael Wu SMC 2862W-G version 2 622*7d2e941bSMichael Wu U.S. Robotics U5 802.11g Adapter 623*7d2e941bSMichael Wu FUJITSU E-5400 USB D1700 624*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Sagem XG703A 625*7d2e941bSMichael Wu DLink DWL-G120 Cohiba 626*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Spinnaker Proto board 627*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Linksys WUSB54AG 628*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Inventel UR054G 629*7d2e941bSMichael Wu Spinnaker DUT 630*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 631*7d2e941bSMichael Wu These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at 632*7d2e941bSMichael Wu http://prism54.org/ 633*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 634*7d2e941bSMichael Wu If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54usb. 635eff1a59cSMichael Wu 636eff1a59cSMichael Wuconfig P54_PCI 637eff1a59cSMichael Wu tristate "Prism54 PCI support" 638eff1a59cSMichael Wu depends on P54_COMMON && PCI 639*7d2e941bSMichael Wu ---help--- 640*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This driver is for PCI isl38xx based wireless cards. 641*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This driver supports most devices that are supported by the 642*7d2e941bSMichael Wu fullmac prism54 driver plus many devices which are not 643*7d2e941bSMichael Wu supported by the fullmac driver/firmware. 644*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 645*7d2e941bSMichael Wu This driver requires softmac firmware which can be found at 646*7d2e941bSMichael Wu http://prism54.org/ 647*7d2e941bSMichael Wu 648*7d2e941bSMichael Wu If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54pci. 649eff1a59cSMichael Wu 650b481de9cSZhu Yisource "drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig" 651ff1d2767SJouni Malinensource "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig" 65277db31eaSMichael Bueschsource "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig" 653e4d6b795SMichael Bueschsource "drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig" 65475388acdSLarry Fingersource "drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig" 655e85d0918SDaniel Drakesource "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig" 65695ea3627SIvo van Doornsource "drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig" 65770e5e983SJohn W. Linville 6581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 659