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 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> 691da177e4SLinus Torvalds for location). 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds information is contained in 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>. 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 781da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also need the wireless tools package available from 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the man pages contained therein. 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds called wavelan. 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_WAVELAN 861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support" 872a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211 882a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA 911da177e4SLinus Torvalds (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This 921da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards. 931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 951da177e4SLinus Torvalds called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N. 961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_NETWAVE 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support" 992a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211 1002a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card) 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N. 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1082a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 1092a5e1c0eSJohannes Bergconfig WLAN_80211 1102a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)" 1112a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on NETDEVICES 1122a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg ---help--- 1132a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware. 1142a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg 1152a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg This option does not affect the kernel build, it only 11642431592SJohn W. Linville lets you choose drivers. 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_RAYCS 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support" 1202a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211 1212a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds details. 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds called ray_cs. If unsure, say N. 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1312c86c275SJames Ketrenosconfig IPW2100 1322c86c275SJames Ketrenos tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection" 1332a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 1342a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 1352c86c275SJames Ketrenos select FW_LOADER 1364ddc1651SJan Niehusmann select IEEE80211 1372c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1382c86c275SJames Ketrenos A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network 1392c86c275SJames Ketrenos Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter. 1402c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1412c86c275SJames Ketrenos See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on 1422c86c275SJames Ketrenos the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips 1432c86c275SJames Ketrenos for debugging issues and problems. 1442c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1452c86c275SJames Ketrenos In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it. 1462c86c275SJames Ketrenos You can obtain the firmware from 1472c86c275SJames Ketrenos <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you 148afcd0241SJesper Juhl will need to place it in /lib/firmware. 1492c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1502c86c275SJames Ketrenos You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 1512c86c275SJames Ketrenos configure your card: 1522c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1532c86c275SJames Ketrenos <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 1542c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1552c86c275SJames Ketrenos If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 1569c782e3bSAlex Shepard inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 15739f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 15839f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called ipw2100.ko. 1592c86c275SJames Ketrenos 16053788015SJiri Bencconfig IPW2100_MONITOR 1612c86c275SJames Ketrenos bool "Enable promiscuous mode" 1622c86c275SJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2100 1632c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1642c86c275SJames Ketrenos Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver. 1652c86c275SJames Ketrenos With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to 1662c86c275SJames Ketrenos promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this 1672c86c275SJames Ketrenos mode, no packets can be sent. 1682c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1690f52bf90SBrice Goglinconfig IPW2100_DEBUG 1702c86c275SJames Ketrenos bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module." 1712c86c275SJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2100 1722c86c275SJames Ketrenos ---help--- 1732c86c275SJames Ketrenos This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100. 1742c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1752c86c275SJames Ketrenos This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can 1762c86c275SJames Ketrenos control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the 1772c86c275SJames Ketrenos value in 1782c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1792c86c275SJames Ketrenos /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level 1802c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1812c86c275SJames Ketrenos This entry will only exist if this option is enabled. 1822c86c275SJames Ketrenos 1832c86c275SJames Ketrenos If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you 1842c86c275SJames Ketrenos most likely want to say N here. 1852c86c275SJames Ketrenos 18643f66a6cSJames Ketrenosconfig IPW2200 18743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection" 1882a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && WLAN_80211 1892a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 19043f66a6cSJames Ketrenos select FW_LOADER 1914ddc1651SJan Niehusmann select IEEE80211 19243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos ---help--- 19343f66a6cSJames Ketrenos A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network 19443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos Connection adapters. 19543f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 19643f66a6cSJames Ketrenos See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for 19743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos information on the capabilities currently enabled in this 19843f66a6cSJames Ketrenos driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems. 19943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20043f66a6cSJames Ketrenos In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it. 20143f66a6cSJames Ketrenos You can obtain the firmware from 20243f66a6cSJames Ketrenos <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200 20347c51431SJon Mason for information on where to install the firmware images. 20443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20543f66a6cSJames Ketrenos You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 20643f66a6cSJames Ketrenos configure your card: 20743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 20843f66a6cSJames Ketrenos <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 20943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 21043f66a6cSJames Ketrenos If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 2119c782e3bSAlex Shepard inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 21239f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 21339f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called ipw2200.ko. 21443f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 2152c0f6316SAndreas Happeconfig IPW2200_MONITOR 2162c0f6316SAndreas Happe bool "Enable promiscuous mode" 2172c0f6316SAndreas Happe depends on IPW2200 2182c0f6316SAndreas Happe ---help--- 2192c0f6316SAndreas Happe Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver. 2202c0f6316SAndreas Happe With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to 2212c0f6316SAndreas Happe promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this 2222c0f6316SAndreas Happe mode, no packets can be sent. 2232c0f6316SAndreas Happe 22434f8ae46SZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_RADIOTAP 22534f8ae46SZhu Yi bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support" 22634f8ae46SZhu Yi depends on IPW2200_MONITOR 22734f8ae46SZhu Yi 22834f8ae46SZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS 22934f8ae46SZhu Yi bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface" 23034f8ae46SZhu Yi depends on IPW2200_MONITOR 23134f8ae46SZhu Yi select IPW2200_RADIOTAP 23234f8ae46SZhu Yi ---help--- 23334f8ae46SZhu Yi Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'. 23434f8ae46SZhu Yi This second interface will provide every received in radiotap 23534f8ae46SZhu Yi format. 23634f8ae46SZhu Yi 23734f8ae46SZhu Yi This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while 23834f8ae46SZhu Yi maintaining an active association. 23934f8ae46SZhu Yi 24034f8ae46SZhu Yi Example usage: 24134f8ae46SZhu Yi 24234f8ae46SZhu Yi % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1 24334f8ae46SZhu Yi % ifconfig rtap0 up 24434f8ae46SZhu Yi % tethereal -i rtap0 24534f8ae46SZhu Yi 24634f8ae46SZhu Yi If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then 24734f8ae46SZhu Yi the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn 24834f8ae46SZhu Yi it on via sysfs: 24934f8ae46SZhu Yi 25034f8ae46SZhu Yi % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface 25134f8ae46SZhu Yi 252e43e3c1eSZhu Yiconfig IPW2200_QOS 2532c0f6316SAndreas Happe bool "Enable QoS support" 2542c0f6316SAndreas Happe depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL 2552c0f6316SAndreas Happe 2560f52bf90SBrice Goglinconfig IPW2200_DEBUG 25743f66a6cSJames Ketrenos bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module." 25843f66a6cSJames Ketrenos depends on IPW2200 25943f66a6cSJames Ketrenos ---help--- 26001d47833SZhu Yi This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200. 26143f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 26201d47833SZhu Yi Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level 26301d47833SZhu Yi debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and 26401d47833SZhu Yi will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users 26501d47833SZhu Yi will typically not need this high verbosity debug information. 26643f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 26701d47833SZhu Yi If you are not sure, say N here. 26843f66a6cSJames Ketrenos 269084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS 270084708b6SHolger Schurig tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support" 271084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on WLAN_80211 272d8efea25SDan Williams select IEEE80211 273876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti select FW_LOADER 274876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti ---help--- 275084708b6SHolger Schurig A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices. 276084708b6SHolger Schurig 277084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS_USB 278084708b6SHolger Schurig tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards" 279084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on LIBERTAS && USB 280084708b6SHolger Schurig ---help--- 281876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices. 282876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti 283084708b6SHolger Schurigconfig LIBERTAS_DEBUG 284084708b6SHolger Schurig bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module." 285084708b6SHolger Schurig depends on LIBERTAS 286876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti ---help--- 287876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti Debugging support. 288876c9d3aSMarcelo Tosatti 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AIRO 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards" 2912a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN) 2922a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 293a39d3e79SAdrian Bunk select CRYPTO 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI 802.11 wireless cards. 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco 29947c51431SJon Mason acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo". 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HERMES 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)" 3092a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211 3102a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 31209509603SMatt LaPlante A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges) 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco, 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya, 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others. 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below. 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works : 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html> 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3301da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APPLE_AIRPORT 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)" 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with 337f1f56623SMichael Buesch a non-standard interface. 338f1f56623SMichael Buesch 339f1f56623SMichael Buesch This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use 340f1f56623SMichael Buesch the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards. 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PLX_HERMES 3438c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)" 3448c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds MA301 is such an adaptor. 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TMD_HERMES 3548c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support" 3558c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 363ec829051SPavel Roskinconfig NORTEL_HERMES 364ec829051SPavel Roskin tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support" 365ec829051SPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 366ec829051SPavel Roskin help 367ec829051SPavel Roskin Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 368ec829051SPavel Roskin orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These 369ec829051SPavel Roskin adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited 370ec829051SPavel Roskin PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. 371ec829051SPavel Roskin 3721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCI_HERMES 3738c09e16bSPavel Roskin tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support" 3748c09e16bSPavel Roskin depends on PCI && HERMES 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds this variety. 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_HERMES 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support" 3842a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && HERMES 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/ 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN. 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO, 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works: 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4023a48c4c2SPavel Roskinconfig PCMCIA_SPECTRUM 4033a48c4c2SPavel Roskin tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support" 4042a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && HERMES 405e4a9af98SAdrian Bunk select FW_LOADER 4063a48c4c2SPavel Roskin ---help--- 4073a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 4083a48c4c2SPavel Roskin This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol 4093a48c4c2SPavel Roskin firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash 4103a48c4c2SPavel Roskin cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B. 4113a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 4123a48c4c2SPavel Roskin This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities 4133a48c4c2SPavel Roskin for downloading Symbol firmware are available at 4143a48c4c2SPavel Roskin <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/> 4153a48c4c2SPavel Roskin 416*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig ATMEL 417*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support" 418*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211 419*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select WIRELESS_EXT 420*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select FW_LOADER 421*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select CRC32 422*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 423*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet 424*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions. 425*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 426*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory 427*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is 428*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image 429*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel 430*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis firmware package can be downloaded from 431*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel> 432*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 433*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig PCI_ATMEL 434*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards" 435*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on ATMEL && PCI 436*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 437*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the 438*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Atmel at76c506 chip. 439*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 440*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotisconfig PCMCIA_ATMEL 441*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards" 442*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA 443*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select WIRELESS_EXT 444*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select FW_LOADER 445*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis select CRC32 446*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis ---help--- 447*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the 448*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips. 449*e12dcb05SFaidon Liambotis 4501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AIRO_CS 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards" 4522a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211 4532a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 454a39d3e79SAdrian Bunk select CRYPTO 4558fa9ea18SRobert Schulze select CRYPTO_AES 4561da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA 4581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet 4591da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package. 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X 4611da177e4SLinus Torvalds - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco 46247c51431SJon Mason acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 802.11b cards. 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO, 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCMCIA_WL3501 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards" 4772a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211 4782a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet. 4811da177e4SLinus Torvalds It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds micro support for ethtool. 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PRISM54 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus' 4862a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211 4872a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds select FW_LOADER 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards: 4911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g 4931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a 4941da177e4SLinus Torvalds ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g 4951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4961da177e4SLinus Torvalds For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>. 4971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards: 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 499c8920ba0SDaniel Andersen 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1) 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card 5011da177e4SLinus Torvalds Compex WL54G Cardbus Card 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card 5031da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card 5151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well. 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890. 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page: 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://prism54.org> 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds a current hotplug package. 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 52839f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 52939f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov The module will be called prism54.ko. 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5315c601d0cSPavel Machekconfig USB_ZD1201 5325c601d0cSPavel Machek tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support" 5332a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg depends on USB && WLAN_80211 5342a5e1c0eSJohannes Berg select WIRELESS_EXT 5355c601d0cSPavel Machek select FW_LOADER 5365c601d0cSPavel Machek ---help--- 5375c601d0cSPavel Machek Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS 5385c601d0cSPavel Machek ZD1201 chip. 5395c601d0cSPavel Machek 5405c601d0cSPavel Machek This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface, 5415c601d0cSPavel Machek typically on wlan0. 5425c601d0cSPavel Machek 5435c601d0cSPavel Machek The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded. 5445c601d0cSPavel Machek This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/ 5455c601d0cSPavel Machek 5465c601d0cSPavel Machek To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 5475c601d0cSPavel Machek module will be called zd1201. 5485c601d0cSPavel Machek 549605bebe2SMichael Wuconfig RTL8187 550605bebe2SMichael Wu tristate "Realtek 8187 USB support" 551605bebe2SMichael Wu depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL 552605bebe2SMichael Wu select EEPROM_93CX6 553605bebe2SMichael Wu ---help--- 554605bebe2SMichael Wu This is a driver for RTL8187 based cards. 555605bebe2SMichael Wu These are USB based chips found in cards such as: 556605bebe2SMichael Wu 557605bebe2SMichael Wu Netgear WG111v2 558605bebe2SMichael Wu 559605bebe2SMichael Wu Thanks to Realtek for their support! 560605bebe2SMichael Wu 561cc0b88cfSMichael Wuconfig ADM8211 562cc0b88cfSMichael Wu tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support" 563cc0b88cfSMichael Wu depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL 564cc0b88cfSMichael Wu select CRC32 565cc0b88cfSMichael Wu select EEPROM_93CX6 566cc0b88cfSMichael Wu ---help--- 567cc0b88cfSMichael Wu This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards. 568cc0b88cfSMichael Wu These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as: 569cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 570cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b 571cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Blitz NetWave Point PC 572cc0b88cfSMichael Wu TrendNet 221pc 573cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Belkin F5D6001 574cc0b88cfSMichael Wu SMC 2635W 575cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Linksys WPC11 v1 576cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Fiberline FL-WL-200X 577cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796) 578cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Corega WLPCIB-11 579cc0b88cfSMichael Wu SMC 2602W V2 EU 580cc0b88cfSMichael Wu D-Link DWL-520 Revision C 581cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 582cc0b88cfSMichael Wu However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips 583cc0b88cfSMichael Wu like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or 584cc0b88cfSMichael Wu the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change. 585cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 586cc0b88cfSMichael Wu Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver. 587cc0b88cfSMichael Wu 588ff1d2767SJouni Malinensource "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig" 58977db31eaSMichael Bueschsource "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig" 590e85d0918SDaniel Drakesource "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig" 59170e5e983SJohn W. Linville 5921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsendmenu 593