11da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 31da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Network device configuration 41da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 51da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEVICES 7ce2d2aedSPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso default y if UML 8e0009820SJan Engelhardt depends on NET 91da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Network device support" 101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 111da177e4SLinus Torvalds You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 121da177e4SLinus Torvalds any other computer at all. 131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141da177e4SLinus Torvalds You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 151da177e4SLinus Torvalds you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 161da177e4SLinus Torvalds telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 171da177e4SLinus Torvalds two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 181da177e4SLinus Torvalds AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 201da177e4SLinus Torvalds See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 251618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 261618cb0cSRandy Dunlap# that for each of the symbols. 271618cb0cSRandy Dunlapif NETDEVICES 28cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap 29f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jrconfig NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE 30f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr bool "Netdevice multiple hardware queue support" 31f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr ---help--- 32f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr Say Y here if you want to allow the network stack to use multiple 33f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr hardware TX queues on an ethernet device. 34f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr 35f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr Most people will say N here. 36f25f4e44SPeter P Waskiewicz Jr 37253af423SJamal Hadi Salimconfig IFB 38253af423SJamal Hadi Salim tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 39253af423SJamal Hadi Salim depends on NET_CLS_ACT 40253af423SJamal Hadi Salim ---help--- 413cb2fcccSMatt LaPlante This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 42253af423SJamal Hadi Salim resources. 43253af423SJamal Hadi Salim To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 44253af423SJamal Hadi Salim will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 45253af423SJamal Hadi Salim device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 46253af423SJamal Hadi Salim Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 47253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 'ifb1' etc. 48253af423SJamal Hadi Salim Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 49253af423SJamal Hadi Salim 501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DUMMY 511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Dummy net driver support" 521da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 531da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 541da177e4SLinus Torvalds this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 551da177e4SLinus Torvalds address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 561da177e4SLinus Torvalds inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this 581da177e4SLinus Torvalds thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your 591da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Administrator's Guide, available from 611da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 631da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy 651da177e4SLinus Torvalds device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0', 671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 'dummy1' etc. 681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BONDING 701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Bonding driver support" 711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on INET 721da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 771da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 7847c51431SJon Mason performance and high availability operation. 791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 811da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 841da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called bonding. 851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 86b863ceb7SPatrick McHardyconfig MACVLAN 87b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 88b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy depends on EXPERIMENTAL 89b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy ---help--- 90b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 91b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 92b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 93b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 94b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy will be called macvlan. 95b863ceb7SPatrick McHardy 961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EQUALIZER 971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 981da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 1001da177e4SLinus Torvalds usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 1011da177e4SLinus Torvalds SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 1021da177e4SLinus Torvalds lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 1031da177e4SLinus Torvalds one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 1041da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 1051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 1061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you want this and read 1081da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 1091da177e4SLinus Torvalds section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 1101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 1141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TUN 1161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 1171da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 1181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1191da177e4SLinus Torvalds TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 1201da177e4SLinus Torvalds programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 1211da177e4SLinus Torvalds device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 1221da177e4SLinus Torvalds receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 1231da177e4SLinus Torvalds via physical media writes them to the user space program. 1241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1251da177e4SLinus Torvalds When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 1261da177e4SLinus Torvalds corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 1271da177e4SLinus Torvalds devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 1281da177e4SLinus Torvalds all routes corresponding to it. 1291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 1311da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 1321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tun. 1351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 1371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 138e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanovconfig VETH 1396a9a0250SRusty Russell tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 140e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 1416a9a0250SRusty Russell This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 1426a9a0250SRusty Russell When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 1436a9a0250SRusty Russell versa. 144e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 1451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 1461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 147cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds found at: 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 1681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1691da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 1701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17100db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 17200db8189SAndy Fleming 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Ethernet 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 1761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 177d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NET_ETHERNET 1781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" 179d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on !UML 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Common varieties of Ethernet are: 10BASE-2 or Thinnet (10 Mbps over 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds coaxial cable, linking computers in a chain), 10BASE-T or twisted 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds pair (10 Mbps over twisted pair cable, linking computers to central 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds hubs), 10BASE-F (10 Mbps over optical fiber links, using hubs), 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100BASE-TX (100 Mbps over two twisted pair cables, using hubs), 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100BASE-T4 (100 Mbps over 4 standard voice-grade twisted pair 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds cables, using hubs), 100BASE-FX (100 Mbps over optical fiber links) 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds [the 100BASE varieties are also known as Fast Ethernet], and Gigabit 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet (1 Gbps over optical fiber or short copper links). 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your Linux machine will be connected to an Ethernet and you have 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) installed in your computer, 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. You will then also have 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds to say Y to the driver for your particular NIC. 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about Ethernet network cards. If unsure, say N. 2031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 204d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtif NET_ETHERNET 205d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 2061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MII 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds ethernet card lack MII. 2121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21389e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoenconfig MACB 21489e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen tristate "Atmel MACB support" 2152b3b3516SAndrew Victor depends on AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || ARCH_AT91SAM9263 || ARCH_AT91CAP9 2166c36a707Sfrederic RODO select PHYLIB 21789e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen help 21889e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen The Atmel MACB ethernet interface is found on many AT32 and AT91 21989e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen parts. Say Y to include support for the MACB chip. 22089e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen 22189e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 22289e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen will be called macb. 22389e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen 2241da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/arm/Kconfig" 2251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 226825a2ff1SBen Dooksconfig AX88796 227825a2ff1SBen Dooks tristate "ASIX AX88796 NE2000 clone support" 2288687991aSMagnus Damm depends on ARM || MIPS || SUPERH 229825a2ff1SBen Dooks select CRC32 230825a2ff1SBen Dooks select MII 231825a2ff1SBen Dooks help 232825a2ff1SBen Dooks AX88796 driver, using platform bus to provide 233825a2ff1SBen Dooks chip detection and resources 234825a2ff1SBen Dooks 23589e536a1SMagnus Dammconfig AX88796_93CX6 23689e536a1SMagnus Damm bool "ASIX AX88796 external 93CX6 eeprom support" 23789e536a1SMagnus Damm depends on AX88796 23889e536a1SMagnus Damm select EEPROM_93CX6 23989e536a1SMagnus Damm help 24089e536a1SMagnus Damm Select this if your platform comes with an external 93CX6 eeprom. 24189e536a1SMagnus Damm 2421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACE 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MACE (Power Mac ethernet) support" 244d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Power Macintoshes and clones with Ethernet built-in on the 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds motherboard will usually use a MACE (Medium Access Control for 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet) interface. Say Y to include support for the MACE chip. 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called mace. 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACE_AAUI_PORT 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use AAUI port instead of TP by default" 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MACE 2571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some Apple machines (notably the Apple Network Server) which use the 2591da177e4SLinus Torvalds MACE ethernet chip have an Apple AUI port (small 15-pin connector), 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds instead of an 8-pin RJ45 connector for twisted-pair ethernet. Say 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here if you have such a machine. If unsure, say N. 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver will default to AAUI on ANS anyway, and if you use it as 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module, you can provide the port_aaui=0|1 to force the driver. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BMAC 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BMAC (G3 ethernet) support" 267d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 2681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y for support of BMAC Ethernet interfaces. These are used on G3 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers. 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called bmac. 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ARIADNE 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ariadne support" 278d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2801da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Village Tronic Ariadne Ethernet adapter, say Y. 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Otherwise, say N. 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ariadne. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig A2065 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "A2065 support" 288d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 2891da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Commodore A2065 Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called a2065. 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HYDRA 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hydra support" 299d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Hydra Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hydra. 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZORRO8390 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Zorro NS8390-based Ethernet support" 309d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for Zorro Ethernet cards using an NS8390-compatible 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds chipset, like the Village Tronic Ariadne II and the Individual 3141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Computers X-Surf Ethernet cards. If you have such a card, say Y. 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Otherwise, say N. 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called zorro8390. 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APNE 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PCMCIA NE2000 support" 322d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on AMIGA_PCMCIA 3231da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3251da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCMCIA NE2000 compatible adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called apne. 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APOLLO_ELPLUS 3321da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apollo 3c505 support" 333d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on APOLLO 3341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y or M here if your Apollo has a 3Com 3c505 ISA Ethernet card. 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have one made for Apollos, you can use one from a PC, 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds except that your Apollo won't be able to boot from it (because the 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds code in the ROM will be for a PC). 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MAC8390 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Macintosh NS 8390 based ethernet cards" 342d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to include a driver to support Nubus or LC-PDS 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MAC89x0 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Macintosh CS89x0 based ethernet cards" 352d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 3551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Nubus or LC-PDS network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 35957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. This module will 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called mac89x0. 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACSONIC 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Macintosh SONIC based ethernet (onboard, NuBus, LC, CS)" 364d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for NatSemi SONIC based Ethernet devices. This includes 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the onboard Ethernet in many Quadras as well as some LC-PDS, 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds a few Nubus and all known Comm Slot Ethernet cards. If you have 3691da177e4SLinus Torvalds one of these say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 37257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. This module will 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called macsonic. 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACMACE 3768b6aaab8SFinn Thain bool "Macintosh (AV) onboard MACE ethernet" 377d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the onboard AMD 79C940 MACE Ethernet controller used in 3811da177e4SLinus Torvalds the 660AV and 840AV Macintosh. If you have one of these Macintoshes 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MVME147_NET 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MVME147 (Lance) Ethernet support" 387d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MVME147 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the on-board Ethernet interface on the Motorola MVME147 3911da177e4SLinus Torvalds single-board computer. Say Y here to include the 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver for this chip in your kernel. 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MVME16x_NET 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MVME16x Ethernet support" 397d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MVME16x 3981da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on the Motorola 4001da177e4SLinus Torvalds MVME162, 166, 167, 172 and 177 boards. Say Y here to include the 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver for this chip in your kernel. 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BVME6000_NET 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BVME6000 Ethernet support" 406d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on BVME6000 4071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on BVME4000 and 4091da177e4SLinus Torvalds BVME6000 VME boards. Say Y here to include the driver for this chip 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your kernel. 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ATARILANCE 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Atari Lance support" 415d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ATARI 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y to include support for several Atari Ethernet adapters based 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the AMD Lance chipset: RieblCard (with or without battery), or 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds PAMCard VME (also the version by Rhotron, with different addresses). 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUN3LANCE 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun3/Sun3x on-board LANCE support" 423d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUN3 || SUN3X 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most Sun3 and Sun3x motherboards (including the 3/50, 3/60 and 3/80) 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds featured an AMD Lance 10Mbit Ethernet controller on board; say Y 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds here to compile in the Linux driver for this and enable Ethernet. 4281da177e4SLinus Torvalds General Linux information on the Sun 3 and 3x series (now 4291da177e4SLinus Torvalds discontinued) is at 4301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/tech68k/sun3.html>. 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you're not building a kernel for a Sun 3, say N. 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUN3_82586 4359a482206SAl Viro bool "Sun3 on-board Intel 82586 support" 436d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUN3 4371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver enables support for the on-board Intel 82586 based 4391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet adapter found on Sun 3/1xx and 3/2xx motherboards. Note 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds that this driver does not support 82586-based adapters on additional 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds VME boards. 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLANCE 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HP on-board LANCE support" 445d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on DIO 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the builtin "LANCE" Ethernet controller on an 4491da177e4SLinus Torvalds HP300 machine, say Y here. 4501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LASI_82596 4521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Lasi ethernet" 453d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on GSC 4541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4556de187eeSMatthew Wilcox Say Y here to support the builtin Intel 82596 ethernet controller 4566de187eeSMatthew Wilcox found in Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC machines with 10Mbit ethernet. 4571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 458f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerferconfig SNI_82596 459f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer tristate "SNI RM ethernet" 460f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer depends on NET_ETHERNET && SNI_RM 461f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer help 462f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer Say Y here to support the on-board Intel 82596 ethernet controller 463f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer built into SNI RM machines. 464f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer 4651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MIPS_JAZZ_SONIC 4661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MIPS JAZZ onboard SONIC Ethernet support" 467d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MACH_JAZZ 4681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the onboard card of MIPS Magnum 4000, 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Acer PICA, Olivetti M700-10 and a few other identical OEM systems. 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MIPS_AU1X00_ENET 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "MIPS AU1000 Ethernet support" 474d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SOC_AU1X00 4750638dec0SHerbert Valerio Riedel select PHYLIB 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an Alchemy Semi AU1X00 based system 4791da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Otherwise, say N. 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGI_IOC3_ETH 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "SGI IOC3 Ethernet" 483d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI && SGI_IP27 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 4891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 4901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 491dcbf8477SRalf Baechleconfig MIPS_SIM_NET 4921e2b980fSRalf Baechle tristate "MIPS simulator Network device" 493d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MIPS_SIM 494dcbf8477SRalf Baechle help 495dcbf8477SRalf Baechle The MIPSNET device is a simple Ethernet network device which is 496dcbf8477SRalf Baechle emulated by the MIPS Simulator. 497dcbf8477SRalf Baechle If you are not using a MIPSsim or are unsure, say N. 498dcbf8477SRalf Baechle 4991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGI_O2MACE_ETH 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SGI O2 MACE Fast Ethernet support" 501d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SGI_IP32=y 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5031da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STNIC 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "National DP83902AV support" 505d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUPERH 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for cards based on the National Semiconductor DP83902AV 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds ST-NIC Serial Network Interface Controller for Twisted Pair. This 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds is a 10Mbit/sec Ethernet controller. Product overview and specs at 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83902A.html>. 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNLANCE 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun LANCE support" 517d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "le" interface present on all 32-bit Sparc 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems, on some older Ultra systems and as an Sbus option. These 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards are based on the AMD Lance chipset, which is better known 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds via the NE2100 cards. 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5261da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunlance. 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HAPPYMEAL 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support" 530d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS || PCI 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "hme" interface present on most Ultra 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and as an option on older Sbus systems. This driver supports 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds both PCI and Sbus devices. This driver also supports the "qfe" quad 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100baseT device available in both PCI and Sbus configurations. 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5391da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunhme. 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNBMAC 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun BigMAC 10/100baseT support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 543d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS && EXPERIMENTAL 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "be" interface available as an Sbus option. 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is Sun's older 100baseT Ethernet device. 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5501da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunbmac. 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNQE 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun QuadEthernet support" 554d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "qe" 10baseT Ethernet device, available as 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds an Sbus option. Note that this is not the same as Quad FastEthernet 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds "qfe" which is supported by the Happy Meal driver instead. 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5621da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunqe. 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNGEM 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun GEM support" 566d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the Sun GEM chip, aka Sun GigabitEthernet/P 2.0. See also 5701da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-3985-10.pdf>. 5711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5721f26dac3SDavid S. Millerconfig CASSINI 5731f26dac3SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Cassini support" 574d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI 5751f26dac3SDavid S. Miller select CRC32 5761f26dac3SDavid S. Miller help 5771f26dac3SDavid S. Miller Support for the Sun Cassini chip, aka Sun GigaSwift Ethernet. See also 5781f26dac3SDavid S. Miller <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/817-4341-10.pdf> 5791f26dac3SDavid S. Miller 5804c521e42SDavid S. Millerconfig SUNVNET 5814c521e42SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Virtual Network support" 5824c521e42SDavid S. Miller depends on SUN_LDOMS 5834c521e42SDavid S. Miller help 5844c521e42SDavid S. Miller Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains. 5854c521e42SDavid S. Miller 5861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_3COM 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "3COM cards" 588d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || MCA || PCI 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about 3COM cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 5971da177e4SLinus Torvalds your specific card in the following questions. 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL1 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c501 \"EtherLink\" support" 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Also, consider buying a 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds new card, since the 3c501 is slow, broken, and obsolete: you will 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds have problems. Some people suggest to ping ("man ping") a nearby 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds machine every minute ("man cron") when using this card. 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 61057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c501. 6121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL2 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c503 \"EtherLink II\" support" 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 62257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6231da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c503. 6241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ELPLUS 6261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c505 \"EtherLink Plus\" support" 627a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 6281da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Information about this network (Ethernet) card can be found in 6301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/3c505.txt>. If you have a card of 6311da177e4SLinus Torvalds this type, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 63457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c505. 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL16 6381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c507 \"EtherLink 16\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 64557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c507. 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL3 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c509/3c529 (MCA)/3c579 \"EtherLink III\" support" 6501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA || MCA) 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds EtherLinkIII series, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your card is not working you may need to use the DOS 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds setup disk to disable Plug & Play mode, and to select the default 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds media type. 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 66057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c509. 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 3C515 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c515 ISA \"Fast EtherLink\"" 665a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA) && ISA_DMA_API 6661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a 3Com ISA EtherLink XL "Corkscrew" 3c515 Fast Ethernet 6681da177e4SLinus Torvalds network card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 67157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c515. 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ELMC 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c523 \"EtherLink/MC\" support" 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA_LEGACY 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 68257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c523. 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ELMC_II 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c527 \"EtherLink/MC 32\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA && MCA_LEGACY 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6901da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 69357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c527. 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VORTEX 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) \"Vortex/Boomerang\" support" 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (PCI || EISA) 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 70147c51431SJon Mason This option enables driver support for a large number of 10Mbps and 70247c51431SJon Mason 10/100Mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Vortex" (Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597) EISA and PCI 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905) PCI 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Cyclone" (3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656) PCI and Cardbus 7071da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Tornado" (3c905) PCI 7081da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO) PCI 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have such a card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds specific information is in 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/vortex.txt> and in the comments at 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds the beginning of <file:drivers/net/3c59x.c>. 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 71657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this support as a module, choose M here. 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TYPHOON 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3cr990 series \"Typhoon\" support" 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && PCI 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables driver support for the 3cr990 series of cards: 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3C990-TX, 3CR990-TX-95, 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-FX-95, 3CR990-FX-97, 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3CR990SVR, 3CR990SVR95, 3CR990SVR97, 3CR990-FX-95 Server, 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3CR990-FX-97 Server, 3C990B-TX-M, 3C990BSVR 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 73357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called typhoon. 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LANCE 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support" 738d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some LinkSys cards are 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds of this type. 7441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 7461da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called lance. This is recommended. 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_SMC 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Western Digital/SMC cards" 750d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || MCA || EISA || MAC 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 7581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about Western Digital cards. If you say Y, you will be 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds asked for your specific card in the following questions. 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig WD80x3 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "WD80*3 support" 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 77057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called wd. 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRAMCA 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra MCA support" 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && MCA 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type and are running 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds an MCA based system (PS/2), say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 78257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-mca. 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRA 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra support" 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Important: There have been many reports that, with some motherboards 7951da177e4SLinus Torvalds mixing an SMC Ultra and an Adaptec AHA154x SCSI card (or compatible, 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds such as some BusLogic models) causes corruption problems with many 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds operating systems. The Linux smc-ultra driver has a work-around for 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds this but keep it in mind if you have such a SCSI card and have 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds problems. 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 80157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-ultra. 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRA32 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra32 EISA support" 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && EISA 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 81357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-ultra32. 8151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 816e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC 8176893ff1cSMichael Hennerich tristate "Blackfin 527/536/537 on-chip mac support" 8186893ff1cSMichael Hennerich depends on NET_ETHERNET && (BF527 || BF537 || BF536) && (!BF537_PORT_H) 819e190d6b1SBryan Wu select CRC32 820eeb70af9SBryan Wu select MII 821eeb70af9SBryan Wu select PHYLIB 822e190d6b1SBryan Wu select BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 if DMA_UNCACHED_NONE 823e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 824e190d6b1SBryan Wu This is the driver for blackfin on-chip mac device. Say Y if you want it 825e190d6b1SBryan Wu compiled into the kernel. This driver is also available as a module 826e190d6b1SBryan Wu ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel 827e190d6b1SBryan Wu whenever you want). The module will be called bfin_mac. 828e190d6b1SBryan Wu 829e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 830e190d6b1SBryan Wu bool "Use L1 memory for rx/tx packets" 8316893ff1cSMichael Hennerich depends on BFIN_MAC && (BF527 || BF537) 832e190d6b1SBryan Wu default y 833e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 83401dd2fbfSMatt LaPlante To get maximum network performance, you should use L1 memory as rx/tx buffers. 835e190d6b1SBryan Wu Say N here if you want to reserve L1 memory for other uses. 836e190d6b1SBryan Wu 837e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_TX_DESC_NUM 838e190d6b1SBryan Wu int "Number of transmit buffer packets" 839e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC 840e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 6 10 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 841e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 10 100 842e190d6b1SBryan Wu default "10" 843e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 844e190d6b1SBryan Wu Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 845e190d6b1SBryan Wu 846e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_RX_DESC_NUM 847e190d6b1SBryan Wu int "Number of receive buffer packets" 848e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC 849e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 20 100 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 850e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 20 800 851e190d6b1SBryan Wu default "20" 852e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 853e190d6b1SBryan Wu Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 854e190d6b1SBryan Wu 855e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC_RMII 856e190d6b1SBryan Wu bool "RMII PHY Interface (EXPERIMENTAL)" 857e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC && EXPERIMENTAL 8586893ff1cSMichael Hennerich default y if BFIN527_EZKIT 8596893ff1cSMichael Hennerich default n if BFIN537_STAMP 860e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 861e190d6b1SBryan Wu Use Reduced PHY MII Interface 862e190d6b1SBryan Wu 8631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMC9194 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC 9194 support" 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && (ISA || MAC && BROKEN) 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is support for the SMC9xxx based Ethernet cards. Choose this 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds option if you have a DELL laptop with the docking station, or 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds another SMC9192/9194 based chipset. Say Y if you want it compiled 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds into the kernel, and read the file 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 87557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc9194. 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 878d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtconfig SMC91X 879d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt tristate "SMC 91C9x/91C1xxx support" 880d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select CRC32 881d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select MII 882b920de1bSDavid Howells depends on ARM || REDWOOD_5 || REDWOOD_6 || M32R || SUPERH || \ 883b920de1bSDavid Howells SOC_AU1X00 || BLACKFIN || MN10300 884d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt help 885d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This is a driver for SMC's 91x series of Ethernet chipsets, 886d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt including the SMC91C94 and the SMC91C111. Say Y if you want it 887d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt compiled into the kernel, and read the file 888d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 889d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 890d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 891d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be 892d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 893d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt The module will be called smc91x. If you want to compile it as a 89457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 895d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 89692aa674dSSascha Hauerconfig NET_NETX 89792aa674dSSascha Hauer tristate "NetX Ethernet support" 89892aa674dSSascha Hauer select MII 899d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ARCH_NETX 90092aa674dSSascha Hauer help 90192aa674dSSascha Hauer This is support for the Hilscher netX builtin Ethernet ports 90292aa674dSSascha Hauer 90357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 90492aa674dSSascha Hauer will be called netx-eth. 90592aa674dSSascha Hauer 906a1365275SSascha Hauerconfig DM9000 907a1365275SSascha Hauer tristate "DM9000 support" 908f40d24d9SAlex Landau depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || MIPS 909a1365275SSascha Hauer select CRC32 910a1365275SSascha Hauer select MII 911a1365275SSascha Hauer ---help--- 912a1365275SSascha Hauer Support for DM9000 chipset. 913a1365275SSascha Hauer 91457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 91557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called dm9000. 916a1365275SSascha Hauer 9173ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelliconfig ENC28J60 9183ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli tristate "ENC28J60 support" 9193ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SPI && NET_ETHERNET 9203ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli select CRC32 9213ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli ---help--- 9223ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli Support for the Microchip EN28J60 ethernet chip. 9233ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli 9242bfc79deSJohann Felix Soden To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be 9253ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli called enc28j60. 9263ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli 9273ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelliconfig ENC28J60_WRITEVERIFY 9283ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli bool "Enable write verify" 9293ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli depends on ENC28J60 9303ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli ---help--- 9313ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli Enable the verify after the buffer write useful for debugging purpose. 9323ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli If unsure, say N. 9333ec9c11dSClaudio Lanconelli 9340a0c72c9SDustin McIntireconfig SMC911X 9350a0c72c9SDustin McIntire tristate "SMSC LAN911[5678] support" 9360a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select CRC32 9370a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select MII 9380313d988SPaul Mundt depends on ARCH_PXA || SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2 9390a0c72c9SDustin McIntire help 9400a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x series of Ethernet chipsets 9410a0c72c9SDustin McIntire including the new LAN9115, LAN9116, LAN9117, and LAN9118. 9420a0c72c9SDustin McIntire Say Y if you want it compiled into the kernel, 9430a0c72c9SDustin McIntire and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9440a0c72c9SDustin McIntire <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 9450a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9460a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This driver is also available as a module. The module will be 9470a0c72c9SDustin McIntire called smc911x. If you want to compile it as a module, say M 94839f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt> 9490a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_RACAL 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards" 952d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, such 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NI5010, NI5210 or NI6210, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about NI cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds your specific card in the following questions. 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9631da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI5010 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5010 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN_ON_SMP 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this is still 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental code. 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni5010. 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI52 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5210 support" 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni52. 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI65 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI6510 support" 988a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 99457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni65. 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9971da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig" 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AT1700 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT1700/1720 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1001d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on (ISA || MCA_LEGACY) && EXPERIMENTAL 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called at1700. 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEPCA 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support" 1013d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || MCA 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:drivers/net/depca.c>. 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 102157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called depca. 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HP100 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support" 1026d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 103257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp100. 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10351da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_ISA 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Other ISA cards" 1037d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your network (Ethernet) card hasn't been mentioned yet and its 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus system (that's the way the cards talks to the other components 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your computer) is ISA (as opposed to EISA, VLB or PCI), say Y. 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Make sure you know the name of your card. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the remaining ISA network card questions. If you say Y, you will be 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds asked for your specific card in the following questions. 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E2100 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cabletron E21xx support" 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 106157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e2100. 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EWRK3 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support" 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the DE203, DE204 and DE205 network (Ethernet) 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. If this is for you, say Y and read 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt> in the kernel source as 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 107557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ewrk3. 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpress 16 support" 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an EtherExpress16 network (Ethernet) card, say Y and 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the Intel 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds EtherExpress16 card used to be regarded as a very poor choice 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds because the driver was very unreliable. We now have a new driver 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds that should do better. 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 108957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eexpress. 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS_PRO 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro support/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support" 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y. This 109747c51431SJon Mason driver supports Intel i82595{FX,TX} based boards. Note however 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds that the EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet card has its own separate 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. Please read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 110257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro. 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN_PLUS 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support" 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 111457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp-plus. 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support" 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11231da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 112657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp. 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LP486E 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "LP486E on board Ethernet" 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the 82596-based on-board Ethernet controller 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds for the Panther motherboard, which is one of the two shipped in the 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Intel Professional Workstation. 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ETH16I 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support" 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 114557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eth16i. 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2000 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000/NE1000 support" 115057e386ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_ISA || (Q40 && m) || M32R || TOSHIBA_RBTX4927 || TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Many Ethernet cards 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000. 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI 115928beaf65SJesper Juhl NE2000 and clone support" under "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board 116028beaf65SJesper Juhl controllers" below. If you have a NE2000 card and are running on 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds an MCA system (a bus system used on some IBM PS/2 computers and 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds laptops), say N here and Y to "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support", 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 116557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne. 11671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZNET 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Zenith Z-Note support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1170a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && ISA_DMA_API 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Zenith Z-Note notebook computer has a built-in network 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds (Ethernet) card, and this is the Linux driver for it. Note that the 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds IBM Thinkpad 300 is compatible with the Z-Note and is also supported 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds by this driver. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SEEQ8005 11791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SEEQ8005 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the SEEQ 8005 network (Ethernet) card. If this 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds is for you, read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 118657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called seeq8005. 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2_MCA 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support" 1191d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MCA_LEGACY 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 119857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11991da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2. 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMLANA 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Adapter/A support" 1203e6353f30SAdrian Bunk depends on MCA 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Micro Channel Ethernet adapter. You need to set 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_MCA to use this driver. It is both available as an in-kernel 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver and as a module. 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 120957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The only 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently supported card is the IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. It 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds will both support 16K and 32K memory windows, however a 32K window 12121da177e4SLinus Torvalds gives a better security against packet losses. Usage of multiple 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds boards with this driver should be possible, but has not been tested 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to now due to lack of hardware. 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMVETH 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Virtual Ethernet support" 1218d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PSERIES 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports virtual ethernet adapters on newer IBM iSeries 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds and pSeries systems. 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 122357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called ibmveth. 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12261d3bb996SDavid Gibsonsource "drivers/net/ibm_emac/Kconfig" 12271d3bb996SDavid Gibsonsource "drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig" 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_PCI 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" 1231d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is another class of network cards which attach directly to the 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus. If you have one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 12391da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network cards. If you say Y, you 12401da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific card in the following questions. If 12411da177e4SLinus Torvalds you are unsure, say Y. 12421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCNET32 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD PCnet32 PCI support" 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 12461da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCnet32 or PCnetPCI based network (Ethernet) card, 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 12511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 125357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called pcnet32. 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12567de745e5SDon Fryconfig PCNET32_NAPI 1257659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)" 1258659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net depends on PCNET32 12597de745e5SDon Fry help 12607de745e5SDon Fry NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 12617de745e5SDon Fry when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 12627de745e5SDon Fry still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 12637de745e5SDon Fry 12647de745e5SDon Fry If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 12657de745e5SDon Fry deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 12667de745e5SDon Fry then say Y here. 12677de745e5SDon Fry 12687de745e5SDon Fry If in doubt, say N. 12697de745e5SDon Fry 12701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111_ETH 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD 8111 (new PCI lance) support" 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an AMD 8111-based PCI lance ethernet card, 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 12781da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 128057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called amd8111e. 1282d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 12831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111E_NAPI 1284bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)" 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on AMD8111_ETH 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 12921da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support" 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Adaptec Starfire (or DuraLAN) PCI network 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The DuraLAN chip is used on the 64 bit PCI boards from 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adaptec e.g. the ANA-6922A. The older 32 bit boards use the tulip 13061da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called starfire. This is recommended. 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE_NAPI 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADAPTEC_STARFIRE && EXPERIMENTAL 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AC3200 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || EISA) && EXPERIMENTAL 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 133457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ac3200. 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APRICOT 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet" 13391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && ISA 13401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 13421da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 134557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 134657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called apricot. 13471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig B44 1349753f4920SMichael Buesch tristate "Broadcom 440x/47xx ethernet support" 1350753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on SSB_POSSIBLE 1351753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB 13521da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13531da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1354753f4920SMichael Buesch If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y 1355753f4920SMichael Buesch or M and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 135857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 135957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called b44. 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1361753f4920SMichael Buesch# Auto-select SSB PCI-HOST support, if possible 1362753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT 1363753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1364753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44 && SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE 1365753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB_PCIHOST 1366753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1367753f4920SMichael Buesch 1368753f4920SMichael Buesch# Auto-select SSB PCICORE driver, if possible 1369753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1370753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1371753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44 && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE_POSSIBLE 1372753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE 1373753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1374753f4920SMichael Buesch 1375753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCI 1376753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1377753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT && B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1378753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1379753f4920SMichael Buesch 13801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FORCEDETH 138182770086SAdrian Bunk tristate "nForce Ethernet support" 138282770086SAdrian Bunk depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 138857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 138957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called forcedeth. 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1391e27cdba5SStephen Hemmingerconfig FORCEDETH_NAPI 1392bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1393e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger depends on FORCEDETH && EXPERIMENTAL 1394e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger help 1395e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1396e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 1397e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 1398e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1399e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1400e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1401e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger then say Y here. 1402e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1403e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If in doubt, say N. 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CS89x0 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CS89x0 support" 14079c878967SDeepak Saxena depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || MACH_IXDP2351 || ARCH_IXDP2X01 || ARCH_PNX010X) 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read the 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt>. 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 141657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called cs89x0. 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TC35815 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support" 1420eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS 1421eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto select MII 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEPRO100 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)" 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI network (Ethernet) 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 143257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro100. 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E100 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support" 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/100 family of adapters. 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds To verify that your adapter is supported, find the board ID number 14431da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the adapter. Look for a label that has a barcode and a number 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the format 123456-001 (six digits hyphen three digits). 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Use the above information and the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds to identify the adapter. 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds For the latest Intel PRO/100 network driver for Linux, see: 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp> 14551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e100.txt>. 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 145957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e100. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LNE390 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 147157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called lne390. 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEALNX 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support" 14761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the Mysom MTD-800 family of PCI-based Ethernet 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. Specifications and data at 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.myson.com.hk/mtd/datasheet/>. 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NATSEMI 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the National Semiconductor DP83810 series, 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is used in cards from PureData, NetGear, Linksys 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds and others, including the 83815 chip. 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html>. 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2K_PCI 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)" 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card, 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also works for the following NE2000 clone cards: 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds RealTek RTL-8029 Winbond 89C940 Compex RL2000 KTI ET32P2 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds NetVin NV5000SC Via 86C926 SureCom NE34 Winbond 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Holtek HT80232 Holtek HT80229 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 151157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2k-pci. 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE3210 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Novell/Eagle/Microdyne NE3210 EISA support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 15171da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this driver 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds will NOT WORK for NE3200 cards as they are completely different. 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 152457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne3210. 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ES3210 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Racal-Interlan EISA ES3210 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 153657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called es3210. 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139CP 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139cp. This is recommended. 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO 1554f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk tristate "RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1560f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and 1561f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139too. This is recommended. 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_PIO 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use PIO instead of MMIO" 15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use programmed I/O ports (PIO) instead 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds of PCI shared memory (MMIO). This can possibly solve some problems 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds in case your mainboard has memory consistency issues. If unsure, 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K (automatic channel equalization)" 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implements a function which might come in handy in case you 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds are using low quality on long cabling. It is required for RealTek 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8139 revision K boards, and totally unused otherwise. It tries 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to match the transceiver to the cable characteristics. This is 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental since hardly documented by the manufacturer. 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_8129 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards" 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables support for the older and uncommon RTL-8129 and 15921da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8130 chips, which support MII via an external transceiver, 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds instead of an internal one. Disabling this option will save some 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds memory by making the code size smaller. If unsure, say Y. 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139_OLD_RX_RESET 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use older RX-reset method" 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new" 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds experience problems, you can enable this option to restore the 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds old RX-reset behavior. If unsure, say N. 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16067a47dd7aSSten Wangconfig R6040 16077a47dd7aSSten Wang tristate "RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16087a47dd7aSSten Wang depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16097a47dd7aSSten Wang select CRC32 16107a47dd7aSSten Wang select MII 16117a47dd7aSSten Wang help 16127a47dd7aSSten Wang This is a driver for the R6040 Fast Ethernet MACs found in the 16137a47dd7aSSten Wang the RDC R-321x System-on-chips. 16147a47dd7aSSten Wang 16157a47dd7aSSten Wang To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 16167a47dd7aSSten Wang will be called r6040. This is recommended. 16177a47dd7aSSten Wang 16181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SIS900 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16226da0f685SAdrian Bunk select MII 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in 1626c3cf560eSAdrian Bunk SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds your phone line as a network cable. 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sis900. This is recommended. 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPIC100 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC EtherPower II" 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the SMC EtherPower II 9432 PCI Ethernet NIC, 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is based on the SMC83c17x (EPIC/100). 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/epic100.html>. 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sundance Alta support" 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the Sundance "Alta" chip. 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html>. 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE_MMIO 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNDANCE 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable memory-mapped I/O for interaction with Sundance NIC registers. 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Do NOT enable this by default, PIO (enabled when MMIO is disabled) 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds is known to solve bugs on certain chips. 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TLAN 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TI ThunderLAN support" 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (PCI || EISA) && !64BIT 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI Ethernet network card based on the ThunderLAN chip 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is supported by this driver, say Y and read the 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Devices currently supported by this driver are Compaq Netelligent, 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds Compaq NetFlex and Olicom cards. Please read the file 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/tlan.txt> for more details. 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 167857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tlan. 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please email feedback to <torben.mathiasen@compaq.com>. 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Rhine support" 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Rhine" based network card (Rhine-I (VT86C100A), 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rhine-II (VT6102), or Rhine-III (VT6105)), say Y here. Rhine-type 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet functions can also be found integrated on South Bridges 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds (e.g. VT8235). 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-rhine. 16961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE_MMIO 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VIA_RHINE 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use PCI shared memory (MMIO) instead of 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds programmed I/O ports (PIO). Enabling this gives an improvement in 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds processing time in parts of the driver. 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1707633949a1SRoger Luethiconfig VIA_RHINE_NAPI 1708633949a1SRoger Luethi bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 1709633949a1SRoger Luethi depends on VIA_RHINE 1710633949a1SRoger Luethi help 1711633949a1SRoger Luethi NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1712633949a1SRoger Luethi when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 1713633949a1SRoger Luethi 1714633949a1SRoger Luethi If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1715633949a1SRoger Luethi deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1716633949a1SRoger Luethi then say Y here. 1717633949a1SRoger Luethi 17181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LAN_SAA9730 1719f2b67c79SRalf Baechle bool "Philips SAA9730 Ethernet support" 1720f2b67c79SRalf Baechle depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS_ATLAS 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The SAA9730 is a combined multimedia and peripheral controller used 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds in thin clients, Internet access terminals, and diskless 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds workstations. 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/SAA9730_flyer_1>. 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1727bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barrosconfig SC92031 1728bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros tristate "Silan SC92031 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1729bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1730bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros select CRC32 1731bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros ---help--- 1732bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1733bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros the Silan SC92031 chip (sometimes also called Rsltek 8139D). If you 1734bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros have one of these, say Y here. 1735bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 1736bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1737bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros will be called sc92031. This is recommended. 1738bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 1739d95b39c3SMatteo Croceconfig CPMAC 1740d95b39c3SMatteo Croce tristate "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 17418353ec7bSAnton Vorontsov depends on NET_ETHERNET && EXPERIMENTAL && AR7 && BROKEN 1742d95b39c3SMatteo Croce select PHYLIB 1743d95b39c3SMatteo Croce help 1744d95b39c3SMatteo Croce TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support 1745d95b39c3SMatteo Croce 17461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_POCKET 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Pocket and portable adapters" 1748d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PARPORT 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cute little network (Ethernet) devices which attach to the parallel 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds port ("pocket adapters"), commonly used with laptops. If you have 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to plug a network (or some other) card into the PCMCIA 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds (or PC-card) slot of your laptop instead (PCMCIA is the standard for 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds credit card size extension cards used by all modern laptops), you 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds need the pcmcia-cs package (location contained in the file 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/Changes>) and you can say N here. 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Laptop users should read the Linux Laptop home page at 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/>. 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network devices. If you say Y, you 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific device in the following questions. 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ATP 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support" 177232fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT && X86 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:drivers/net/atp.c> as well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you should have 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds said N to the "Parallel printer support", because the two drivers 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't like each other. 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called atp. 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE600 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE600 pocket adapter support" 178732fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17981da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de600. 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE620 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE620 pocket adapter support" 180232fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 18051da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 18071da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de620. 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGISEEQ 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SGI Seeq ethernet controller support" 181749b11bc3SThomas Bogendoerfer depends on SGI_HAS_SEEQ 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Seeq based Ethernet network card. This is 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds used in many Silicon Graphics machines. 18211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DECLANCE 18231da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEC LANCE ethernet controller support" 1824d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MACH_DECSTATION 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 18261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18271da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the series of Ethernet controllers produced by 18281da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEC (now Compaq) based on the AMD Lance chipset, including the 18291da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEPCA series. (This chipset is better known via the NE2100 cards.) 18301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 68360_ENET 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Motorola 68360 ethernet controller" 18331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on M68360 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in ethernet controller of 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Motorola 68360 processor. 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEC 18392af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "FEC ethernet controller (of ColdFire CPUs)" 1840892b6252SGreg Ungerer depends on M523x || M527x || M5272 || M528x || M520x 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in 10/100 Fast ethernet 18432af6921fSGreg Ungerer controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 18442af6921fSGreg Ungerer 18452af6921fSGreg Ungererconfig FEC2 18462af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "Second FEC ethernet controller (on some ColdFire CPUs)" 18472af6921fSGreg Ungerer depends on FEC 18482af6921fSGreg Ungerer help 18492af6921fSGreg Ungerer Say Y here if you want to use the second built-in 10/100 Fast 18502af6921fSGreg Ungerer ethernet controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18525d031e9eSDomen Puncerconfig FEC_MPC52xx 18535d031e9eSDomen Puncer tristate "MPC52xx FEC driver" 1854644fdf9bSGrant Likely depends on PPC_MERGE && PPC_MPC52xx && PPC_BESTCOMM_FEC 18555d031e9eSDomen Puncer select CRC32 18565d031e9eSDomen Puncer select PHYLIB 18575d031e9eSDomen Puncer ---help--- 18585d031e9eSDomen Puncer This option enables support for the MPC5200's on-chip 18595d031e9eSDomen Puncer Fast Ethernet Controller 18605d031e9eSDomen Puncer If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx.ko'. 18615d031e9eSDomen Puncer 18625d031e9eSDomen Puncerconfig FEC_MPC52xx_MDIO 18635d031e9eSDomen Puncer bool "MPC52xx FEC MDIO bus driver" 18645d031e9eSDomen Puncer depends on FEC_MPC52xx 18655d031e9eSDomen Puncer default y 18665d031e9eSDomen Puncer ---help--- 18675d031e9eSDomen Puncer The MPC5200's FEC can connect to the Ethernet either with 18685d031e9eSDomen Puncer an external MII PHY chip or 10 Mbps 7-wire interface 18695d031e9eSDomen Puncer (Motorola? industry standard). 18705d031e9eSDomen Puncer If your board uses an external PHY connected to FEC, enable this. 18715d031e9eSDomen Puncer If not sure, enable. 18725d031e9eSDomen Puncer If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx_phy.ko'. 18735d031e9eSDomen Puncer 18741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE_H8300 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000 compatible support for H8/300" 1876d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on H8300 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the NE2000 compatible 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller on the Renesas H8/300 processor. 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18811da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/fec_8xx/Kconfig" 188248257c4fSPantelis Antoniousource "drivers/net/fs_enet/Kconfig" 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1884d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NET_ETHERNET 18851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 18871da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Gigabit Ethernet 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1890f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_1000 1891f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (1000 Mbit)" 1892cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 1893f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 189406bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 189506bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 189606bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 189706bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 189806bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 189906bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 190006bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Note that drivers supporting both 100 and 1000 MBit may be listed 190106bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt under "Ethernet (10 or 100MBit)" instead. 190206bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 190306bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 1904f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 1905f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_1000 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support" 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bytes/frame) however it requires that your switches can handle this 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To enable Jumbo Frames, add `mtu 9000' to your ifconfig 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds line. 19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called acenic. 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs" 19231da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ACENIC 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds version)). This will reduce the size of the driver object by 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds app. 100KB. If you are not sure whether your card is a Tigon I or a 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tigon II, say N here. 19311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds The safe and default value for this is N. 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DL2K 1935df950828SKomuro tristate "DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit Ethernet support" 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1939df950828SKomuro This driver supports DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit ethernet cards, 1940df950828SKomuro which includes 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 1943df950828SKomuro Sundance/Tamarack TC902x Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called dl2k. 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19481da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet family of 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 196657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 19671da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e1000. 19681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000_NAPI 19701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on E1000 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 198335ec56bbSJesse Brandeburgconfig E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT 198435ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg bool "Disable Packet Split for PCI express adapters" 198535ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg depends on E1000 198635ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg help 198735ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg Say Y here if you want to use the legacy receive path for PCI express 19889e6b4873SJames Ring hardware. 198935ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 199035ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg If in doubt, say N. 199135ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 1992bc7f75faSAuke Kokconfig E1000E 1993bc7f75faSAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 1994bc7f75faSAuke Kok depends on PCI 1995bc7f75faSAuke Kok ---help--- 1996bc7f75faSAuke Kok This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit 1997bc7f75faSAuke Kok ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters, 1998bc7f75faSAuke Kok use the regular e1000 driver For more information on how to 1999bc7f75faSAuke Kok identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 2000bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2001bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 2002bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2003bc7f75faSAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 2004bc7f75faSAuke Kok website at: 2005bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2006bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 2007bc7f75faSAuke Kok 200857ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2009bc7f75faSAuke Kok will be called e1000e. 2010bc7f75faSAuke Kok 201160e23317SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000E_ENABLED 201260e23317SLinus Torvalds def_bool E1000E != n 201360e23317SLinus Torvalds 2014ab7a9831SStephen Hemmingerconfig IP1000 2015ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 2016ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2017ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger select MII 2018ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2019ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards. 2020ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger 2021ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2022ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger will be called ipg. This is recommended. 2023ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger 20249d5c8243SAuke Kokconfig IGB 20259d5c8243SAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) 82575 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 20269d5c8243SAuke Kok depends on PCI 20279d5c8243SAuke Kok ---help--- 20289d5c8243SAuke Kok This driver supports Intel(R) 82575 gigabit ethernet family of 20299d5c8243SAuke Kok adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 20309d5c8243SAuke Kok to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 20319d5c8243SAuke Kok 20329d5c8243SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 20339d5c8243SAuke Kok 20349d5c8243SAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 20359d5c8243SAuke Kok website at: 20369d5c8243SAuke Kok 20379d5c8243SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 20389d5c8243SAuke Kok 20399d5c8243SAuke Kok More specific information on configuring the driver is in 20409d5c8243SAuke Kok <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 20419d5c8243SAuke Kok 20422bfc79deSJohann Felix Soden To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 20439d5c8243SAuke Kok will be called igb. 20449d5c8243SAuke Kok 204515d014d1SLennert Buytenheksource "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig" 204615d014d1SLennert Buytenhek 20471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MYRI_SBUS 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support" 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SBUS 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20511da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports MyriCOM Sbus gigabit Ethernet cards. 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called myri_sbus. This is recommended. 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NS83820 205747c51431SJon Mason tristate "National Semiconductor DP83820 support" 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820 series 20611da177e4SLinus Torvalds of gigabit ethernet MACs. Cards using this chipset include 20621da177e4SLinus Torvalds the D-Link DGE-500T, PureData's PDP8023Z-TG, SMC's SMC9462TX, 20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds SOHO-GA2000T, SOHO-GA2500T. The driver supports the use of 20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds zero copy. 20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HAMACHI 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support" 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y and read 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 207557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds called hamachi. 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig YELLOWFIN 20791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html> for more 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about this driver in particular and Beowulf in general. 20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called yellowfin. This is recommended. 20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169 20931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called r8169. This is recommended. 21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_NAPI 2103bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && EXPERIMENTAL 21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 21151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_VLAN 21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "VLAN support" 21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && VLAN_8021Q 21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here for the r8169 driver to support the functions required 21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds by the kernel 802.1Q code. 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21251a9e8549SMaciej W. Rozyckiconfig SB1250_MAC 212625a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki tristate "SB1250 Gigabit Ethernet support" 212725a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC 2128f5279ffdSMaciej W. Rozycki select PHYLIB 212925a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 213025a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the 213125a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki Broadcom SiByte family of System-On-a-Chip parts. They include 213225a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki the BCM1120, BCM1125, BCM1125H, BCM1250, BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455 213325a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki and BCM1480 chips. 213425a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki 213525a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 213625a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki will be called sb1250-mac. 213725a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki 2138890e8d0aSFrancois Romieuconfig SIS190 2139e797637fSFrancois Romieu tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support" 2140890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu depends on PCI 2141890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu select CRC32 2142e9985d53SAdrian Bunk select MII 2143890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu ---help--- 2144e797637fSFrancois Romieu Say Y here if you have a SiS 190 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter or 2145e797637fSFrancois Romieu a SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Both are expected to 2146e797637fSFrancois Romieu appear in lan on motherboard designs which are based on SiS 965 2147e797637fSFrancois Romieu and SiS 966 south bridge. 2148890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2149890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2150890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu will be called sis190. This is recommended. 2151890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2152baef58b1SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKGE 21537a160c73SStephen Hemminger tristate "New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support" 21547a160c73SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2155baef58b1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2156baef58b1SStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2157baef58b1SStephen Hemminger This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 2158baef58b1SStephen Hemminger and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver 215946a60f2dSStephen Hemminger with better performance and more complete ethtool support. 2160baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2161baef58b1SStephen Hemminger It does not support the link failover and network management 21625ad887faSStephen Hemminger features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does. 2163baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2164c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset: 2165c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T, 2166c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872. 2167c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2168c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver, 2169c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters. 2170c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2171c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2172c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake will be called skge. This is recommended. 2173cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2174678aa1f6SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKGE_DEBUG 2175678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger bool "Debugging interface" 2176678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger depends on SKGE && DEBUG_FS 2177678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger help 2178678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 2179678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger The file debugfs/skge/ethX displays the state of the internal 2180678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger transmit and receive rings. 2181678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger 2182678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger If unsure, say N. 2183678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger 2184cd28ab6aSStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2 21858a3e3bfdSStephen Hemminger tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support" 2186f479b322SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2187cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2188cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2189cab00891SMatt LaPlante This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the 2190c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell Yukon 2 chipset: 2191c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/ 2192c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 88E8053/88E8055/88E8061/88E8062, SysKonnect SK-9E21D/SK-9S21 2193c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2194f479b322SStephen Hemminger There is companion driver for the older Marvell Yukon and 2195f479b322SStephen Hemminger Genesis based adapters: skge. 2196cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2197cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2198cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger will be called sky2. This is recommended. 2199cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 22003cf26753SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2_DEBUG 22013cf26753SStephen Hemminger bool "Debugging interface" 22023cf26753SStephen Hemminger depends on SKY2 && DEBUG_FS 22033cf26753SStephen Hemminger help 22043cf26753SStephen Hemminger This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 22053cf26753SStephen Hemminger The file debugfs/sky2/ethX displays the state of the internal 22063cf26753SStephen Hemminger transmit and receive rings. 2207c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 22083cf26753SStephen Hemminger If unsure, say N. 22091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 22105ad887faSStephen Hemmingerconfig SK98LIN 22115ad887faSStephen Hemminger tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (DEPRECATED)" 22125ad887faSStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 22135ad887faSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 22145ad887faSStephen Hemminger Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 22155ad887faSStephen Hemminger compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 22165ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22175ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. This driver is 22185ad887faSStephen Hemminger deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future, 22195ad887faSStephen Hemminger it has been replaced by the skge driver. skge is cleaner and 22205ad887faSStephen Hemminger seems to work better. 22215ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22225ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate 22235ad887faSStephen Hemminger driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters. 22245ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22255ad887faSStephen Hemminger The following adapters are supported by this driver: 22265ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 22275ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C941 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 22285ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22295ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22305ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22315ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22325ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22335ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX/2TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22345ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22355ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22365ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Belkin Gigabit Desktop Card 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 22375ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1032 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 22385ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1064 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 22395ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Abit) 22405ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Albatron) 22415ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Asus) 22425ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (ECS) 22435ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Epox) 22445ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Foxconn) 22455ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Gigabyte) 22465ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Iwill) 22475ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8050 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Intel) 22485ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8001 Adapter 22495ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8002 Adapter 22505ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8003 Adapter 22515ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8004 Adapter 22525ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8006 Adapter 22535ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8007 Adapter 22545ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8008 Adapter 22555ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8009 Adapter 22565ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8010 Adapter 22575ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8011 Adapter 22585ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8012 Adapter 22595ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8052 Adapter 22605ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (32 bit) 22615ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (64 bit) 22625ad887faSStephen Hemminger - N-Way PCI-Bus Giga-Card 1000/100/10Mbps(L) 22635ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22645ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 V2.0 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22655ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T) 22665ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22675ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9822 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T dual link) 22685ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX) 22695ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-LX Adapter 22705ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9842 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX dual link) 22715ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX) 22725ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22735ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9844 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX dual link) 22745ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9851 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22755ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition) 22765ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22775ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9862 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition dual link) 22785ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX) 22795ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter 22805ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9872 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX dual link) 22815ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9452TXV.2) 22825ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22835ad887faSStephen Hemminger The adapters support Jumbo Frames. 22845ad887faSStephen Hemminger The dual link adapters support link-failover and dual port features. 22855ad887faSStephen Hemminger Both Marvell Yukon and SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx adapters support 22865ad887faSStephen Hemminger the scatter-gather functionality with sendfile(). Please refer to 22875ad887faSStephen Hemminger <file:Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt> for more information about 22885ad887faSStephen Hemminger optional driver parameters. 22895ad887faSStephen Hemminger Questions concerning this driver may be addressed to: 22905ad887faSStephen Hemminger <linux@syskonnect.de> 22915ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22925ad887faSStephen Hemminger If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be 22935ad887faSStephen Hemminger inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 22945ad887faSStephen Hemminger say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. The module will 22955ad887faSStephen Hemminger be called sk98lin. This is recommended. 22965ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_VELOCITY 22981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Velocity support" 229973815538SYoichi Yuasa depends on PCI 23001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 23011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 23021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 23031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 23041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Velocity" based network card say Y here. 23051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23061da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 23071da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-velocity. 23081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TIGON3 23101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" 23111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 23121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 23131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. 23141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23151da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23161da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tg3. This is recommended. 23171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2318b6016b76SMichael Chanconfig BNX2 2319b6016b76SMichael Chan tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII support" 2320b6016b76SMichael Chan depends on PCI 2321fba9fe91SMichael Chan select CRC32 2322fba9fe91SMichael Chan select ZLIB_INFLATE 2323b6016b76SMichael Chan help 2324b6016b76SMichael Chan This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII gigabit Ethernet cards. 2325b6016b76SMichael Chan 2326b6016b76SMichael Chan To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2327b6016b76SMichael Chan will be called bnx2. This is recommended. 2328b6016b76SMichael Chan 2329aaec0fabSJens Osterkampconfig SPIDER_NET 2330aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver" 23313342cf0eSKou Ishizaki depends on PCI && (PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE || PPC_CELLEB) 23329b15879aSChristoph Hellwig select FW_LOADER 2333aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp help 2334aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the 2335aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM. 2336aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp 23375e123b84SZang Roy-r61911config TSI108_ETH 23385e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 tristate "Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet support" 23395e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 depends on TSI108_BRIDGE 23405e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 help 23415e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 This driver supports Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet ports. 23425e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23435e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 will be called tsi108_eth. 23445e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 234502c18891SMasakazu Mokunoconfig GELIC_NET 234602c18891SMasakazu Mokuno tristate "PS3 Gigabit Ethernet driver" 234702c18891SMasakazu Mokuno depends on PPC_PS3 234802c18891SMasakazu Mokuno help 234902c18891SMasakazu Mokuno This driver supports the network device on the PS3 game 235002c18891SMasakazu Mokuno console. This driver has built-in support for Ethernet. 235102c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 235202c18891SMasakazu Mokuno To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 235302c18891SMasakazu Mokuno module will be called ps3_gelic. 235402c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 235509dde54cSMasakazu Mokunoconfig GELIC_WIRELESS 235609dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno bool "PS3 Wireless support" 235709dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno depends on GELIC_NET 235809dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno help 235909dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno This option adds the support for the wireless feature of PS3. 236009dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno If you have the wireless-less model of PS3 or have no plan to 236109dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno use wireless feature, disabling this option saves memory. As 236209dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno the driver automatically distinguishes the models, you can 236309dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno safely enable this option even if you have a wireless-less model. 236409dde54cSMasakazu Mokuno 23651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GIANFAR 23661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Gianfar Ethernet" 23673a83156bSKumar Gala depends on FSL_SOC 2368bb40dcbbSAndy Fleming select PHYLIB 2369bf41a7c5SDave Jiang select CRC32 23701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2371ef82a306SJon Loeliger This driver supports the Gigabit TSEC on the MPC83xx, MPC85xx, 2372ef82a306SJon Loeliger and MPC86xx family of chips, and the FEC on the 8540. 23731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GFAR_NAPI 2375bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 23761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on GIANFAR 23771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2378ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UCC_GETH 23797d776cb5STimur Tabi tristate "Freescale QE Gigabit Ethernet" 23807d776cb5STimur Tabi depends on QUICC_ENGINE 2381296baae2SJan Altenberg select PHYLIB 2382ce973b14SLi Yang help 23837d776cb5STimur Tabi This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet mode of the QUICC Engine, 23847d776cb5STimur Tabi which is available on some Freescale SOCs. 2385ce973b14SLi Yang 2386ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_NAPI 2387bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 2388ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2389ce973b14SLi Yang 2390ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_MAGIC_PACKET 2391ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Magic Packet detection support" 2392ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2393ce973b14SLi Yang 2394ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_FILTERING 2395ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Mac address filtering support" 2396ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2397ce973b14SLi Yang 2398d5b9049dSMichael Reissconfig UGETH_TX_ON_DEMAND 2399d5b9049dSMichael Reiss bool "Transmit on Demand support" 2400ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2401ce973b14SLi Yang 24021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MV643XX_ETH 24039c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek tristate "Marvell Discovery (643XX) and Orion ethernet support" 24049c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek depends on MV64360 || MV64X60 || (PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC32) || ARCH_ORION 2405cd6478c8SDale Farnsworth select MII 24061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 24079c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek This driver supports the gigabit ethernet MACs in the 24089c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Marvell Discovery PPC/MIPS chipset family (MV643XX) and 24099c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek in the Marvell Orion ARM SoC family. 24109c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek 24119c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Some boards that use the Discovery chipset are the Momenco 24129c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and Pegasos II. 24131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24145a4faa87SRon Mercerconfig QLA3XXX 24155a4faa87SRon Mercer tristate "QLogic QLA3XXX Network Driver Support" 24165a4faa87SRon Mercer depends on PCI 24175a4faa87SRon Mercer help 24185a4faa87SRon Mercer This driver supports QLogic ISP3XXX gigabit Ethernet cards. 24195a4faa87SRon Mercer 24205a4faa87SRon Mercer To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24215a4faa87SRon Mercer will be called qla3xxx. 24225a4faa87SRon Mercer 2423f3cc28c7SJay Cliburnconfig ATL1 2424f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn tristate "Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2425a1ca14b1SJay Cliburn depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2426f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select CRC32 2427f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select MII 2428f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn help 2429f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn This driver supports the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. 2430f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2431f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2432f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn will be called atl1. 2433f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2434f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_1000 24351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24361da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 24371da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 10 Gigabit Ethernet 24381da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 24391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2440f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_10000 2441f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (10000 Mbit)" 2442cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 2443f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 244406bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 244506bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 244606bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 244706bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 244806bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 2449f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 2450f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_10000 24511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24528199d3a7SChristoph Lameterconfig CHELSIO_T1 24538199d3a7SChristoph Lameter tristate "Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet support" 24548199d3a7SChristoph Lameter depends on PCI 245557834ca1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 24568199d3a7SChristoph Lameter help 2457f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger This driver supports Chelsio gigabit and 10-gigabit 2458f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger Ethernet cards. More information about adapter features and 2459f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger performance tuning is in <file:Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt>. 24608199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24618199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 24628199d3a7SChristoph Lameter our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 24638199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24648199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 24658199d3a7SChristoph Lameter <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 24668199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24678199d3a7SChristoph Lameter Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 24688199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24698199d3a7SChristoph Lameter To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24708199d3a7SChristoph Lameter will be called cxgb. 24718199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 2472352c417dSStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_1G 2473352c417dSStephen Hemminger bool "Chelsio gigabit Ethernet support" 2474352c417dSStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 2475352c417dSStephen Hemminger help 2476352c417dSStephen Hemminger Enables support for Chelsio's gigabit Ethernet PCI cards. If you 2477352c417dSStephen Hemminger are using only 10G cards say 'N' here. 2478352c417dSStephen Hemminger 24797fe26a60SStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_NAPI 24807fe26a60SStephen Hemminger bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 24817fe26a60SStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 24827fe26a60SStephen Hemminger default y 24837fe26a60SStephen Hemminger help 24847fe26a60SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 24857fe26a60SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 24867fe26a60SStephen Hemminger 24874d22de3eSDivy Le Rayconfig CHELSIO_T3 24884d22de3eSDivy Le Ray tristate "Chelsio Communications T3 10Gb Ethernet support" 24894d22de3eSDivy Le Ray depends on PCI 24902e283962SDivy Le Ray select FW_LOADER 24914d22de3eSDivy Le Ray help 24924d22de3eSDivy Le Ray This driver supports Chelsio T3-based gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet 24934d22de3eSDivy Le Ray adapters. 24944d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24954d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 24964d22de3eSDivy Le Ray our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 24974d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24984d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 24994d22de3eSDivy Le Ray <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 25004d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25014d22de3eSDivy Le Ray Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 25024d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25034d22de3eSDivy Le Ray To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 25044d22de3eSDivy Le Ray will be called cxgb3. 25054d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25067a291083SJan-Bernd Themannconfig EHEA 25077a291083SJan-Bernd Themann tristate "eHEA Ethernet support" 2508e0d5dab2SRandy Dunlap depends on IBMEBUS && INET 2509d4dc4ec9SJan-Bernd Themann select INET_LRO 25107a291083SJan-Bernd Themann ---help--- 25117a291083SJan-Bernd Themann This driver supports the IBM pSeries eHEA ethernet adapter. 25127a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 25137a291083SJan-Bernd Themann To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25147a291083SJan-Bernd Themann will be called ehea. 25157a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 25169a799d71SAuke Kokconfig IXGBE 25179a799d71SAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support" 25189a799d71SAuke Kok depends on PCI 25199a799d71SAuke Kok ---help--- 25209a799d71SAuke Kok This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of 25219a799d71SAuke Kok adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 25229a799d71SAuke Kok to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 25239a799d71SAuke Kok 25249a799d71SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 25259a799d71SAuke Kok 25269a799d71SAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 25279a799d71SAuke Kok website at: 25289a799d71SAuke Kok 25299a799d71SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 25309a799d71SAuke Kok 253157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25329a799d71SAuke Kok will be called ixgbe. 25339a799d71SAuke Kok 25341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB 25351da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support" 25361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 25371da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 25389a799d71SAuke Kok This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/10GbE family of adapters for 25399a799d71SAuke Kok PCI-X type cards. For PCI-E type cards, use the "ixgbe" driver 25409a799d71SAuke Kok instead. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 25411da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 25421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 25441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25451da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 25461da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 25471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 25491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25501da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ixgb.txt>. 25521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 255357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ixgb. 25551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB_NAPI 25571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IXGB && EXPERIMENTAL 25591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25601da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25611da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25621da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25651da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25661da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25681da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO 25711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "S2IO 10Gbe XFrame NIC" 25721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 25731da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 25741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the 10Gbe XFrame NIC of S2IO. 25759eb343aeSAkinobu Mita More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25769eb343aeSAkinobu Mita <file:Documentation/networking/s2io.txt>. 25771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO_NAPI 25791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on S2IO && EXPERIMENTAL 25811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25821da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25831da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25841da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25871da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25881da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25901da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25920da34b6dSBrice Goglinconfig MYRI10GE 25930da34b6dSBrice Goglin tristate "Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet support" 2594e0d5dab2SRandy Dunlap depends on PCI && INET 25950da34b6dSBrice Goglin select FW_LOADER 25960da34b6dSBrice Goglin select CRC32 25971e6e9342SAndrew Gallatin select INET_LRO 25980da34b6dSBrice Goglin ---help--- 25990da34b6dSBrice Goglin This driver supports Myricom Myri-10G Dual Protocol interface in 26000da34b6dSBrice Goglin Ethernet mode. If the eeprom on your board is not recent enough, 26010da34b6dSBrice Goglin you will need a newer firmware image. 26020da34b6dSBrice Goglin You may get this image or more information, at: 26030da34b6dSBrice Goglin 2604d2794905SBrice Goglin <http://www.myri.com/scs/download-Myri10GE.html> 26050da34b6dSBrice Goglin 260657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 26070da34b6dSBrice Goglin will be called myri10ge. 26080da34b6dSBrice Goglin 26093d396eb1SAmit S. Kaleconfig NETXEN_NIC 26103d396eb1SAmit S. Kale tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC" 26115ac36615SRandy Dunlap depends on PCI 26123d396eb1SAmit S. Kale help 26133d396eb1SAmit S. Kale This enables the support for NetXen's Gigabit Ethernet card. 26143d396eb1SAmit S. Kale 2615a3138df9SDavid S. Millerconfig NIU 2616a3138df9SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Neptune 10Gbit Ethernet support" 2617a3138df9SDavid S. Miller depends on PCI 2618a3138df9SDavid S. Miller help 2619a3138df9SDavid S. Miller This enables support for cards based upon Sun's 2620a3138df9SDavid S. Miller Neptune chipset. 2621a3138df9SDavid S. Miller 2622f5cd7872SOlof Johanssonconfig PASEMI_MAC 2623f5cd7872SOlof Johansson tristate "PA Semi 1/10Gbit MAC" 2624f5cd7872SOlof Johansson depends on PPC64 && PCI 2625bb6e9590SOlof Johansson select PHYLIB 262628ae79f5SOlof Johansson select INET_LRO 2627f5cd7872SOlof Johansson help 2628f5cd7872SOlof Johansson This driver supports the on-chip 1/10Gbit Ethernet controller on 2629f5cd7872SOlof Johansson PA Semi's PWRficient line of chips. 2630f5cd7872SOlof Johansson 2631225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_CORE 2632225c7b1fSRoland Dreier tristate 2633225c7b1fSRoland Dreier depends on PCI 2634225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default n 2635225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 2636225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_DEBUG 2637225c7b1fSRoland Dreier bool "Verbose debugging output" if (MLX4_CORE && EMBEDDED) 2638f550d94cSPaul Mundt depends on MLX4_CORE 2639225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default y 2640225c7b1fSRoland Dreier ---help--- 2641225c7b1fSRoland Dreier This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the 2642225c7b1fSRoland Dreier mlx4_core driver. The output can be turned on via the 2643225c7b1fSRoland Dreier debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after 2644225c7b1fSRoland Dreier the driver is loaded through sysfs). 2645225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 26461a348cccSAndy Gospodarekconfig TEHUTI 26471a348cccSAndy Gospodarek tristate "Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet" 26481a348cccSAndy Gospodarek depends on PCI 26491a348cccSAndy Gospodarek help 26501a348cccSAndy Gospodarek Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet NIC 26511a348cccSAndy Gospodarek 2652a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamirconfig BNX2X 2653a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII 10Gb support" 2654a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir depends on PCI 265507b270eaSLee Schermerhorn select ZLIB_INFLATE 2656a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir help 2657a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII 10 gigabit Ethernet cards. 2658a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2659a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir will be called bnx2x. This is recommended. 2660a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir 2661a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir 2662f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_10000 26631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26641da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" 26651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26661da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 26671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26685b2fc499SJeff Garziksource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 26695b2fc499SJeff Garzik 26701da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig" 26711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26721da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 26731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26741da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 26751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26761da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 26771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26780d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 26790d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 26800d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 26810d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 26820d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 26830d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to 26840d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge access network devices exported exported by a virtual 26850d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge machine containing a physical network device driver. The 26860d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge frontend driver is intended for unprivileged guest domains; 26870d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge if you are compiling a kernel for a Xen guest, you almost 26880d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge certainly want to enable this. 26890d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 26901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISERIES_VETH 26911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "iSeries Virtual Ethernet driver support" 2692cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PPC_ISERIES 26931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2694f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET 2695f89efd52SMatt Porter tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 2696a81c52a8SRandy Dunlap depends on RAPIDIO 2697f89efd52SMatt Porter 2698f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 2699f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of outbound queue entries" 2700f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2701f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2702f89efd52SMatt Porter 2703f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 2704f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of inbound queue entries" 2705f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2706f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2707f89efd52SMatt Porter 27081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FDDI 27091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "FDDI driver support" 2710e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on (PCI || EISA || TC) 27111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network 27131da177e4SLinus Torvalds design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can 27141da177e4SLinus Torvalds run over copper or fiber. If you are connected to such a network and 27151da177e4SLinus Torvalds want a driver for the FDDI card in your computer, say Y here (and 27161da177e4SLinus Torvalds then also Y to the driver for your FDDI card, below). Most people 27171da177e4SLinus Torvalds will say N. 27181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEFXX 2720e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support" 2721e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC) 2722e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2723e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA), 2724e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you 2725e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki to a local FDDI network. 2726e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2727e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2728e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki will be called defxx. If unsure, say N. 2729e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2730e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozyckiconfig DEFXX_MMIO 2731e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki bool 2732e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki prompt "Use MMIO instead of PIO" if PCI || EISA 2733e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on DEFXX 2734e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default n if PCI || EISA 2735e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default y 2736e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2737e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This instructs the driver to use EISA or PCI memory-mapped I/O 2738e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki (MMIO) as appropriate instead of programmed I/O ports (PIO). 2739e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki Enabling this gives an improvement in processing time in parts 2740e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki of the driver, but it may cause problems with EISA (DEFEA) 2741e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki adapters. TURBOchannel does not have the concept of I/O ports, 2742e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki so MMIO is always used for these (DEFTA) adapters. 2743e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2744e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki If unsure, say N. 27451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SKFP 27471da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support" 27481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on FDDI && PCI 2749bc63eb9cSAkinobu Mita select BITREVERSE 27501da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27511da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter. 27521da177e4SLinus Torvalds The following adapters are supported by this driver: 27531da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5521 (SK-NET FDDI-UP) 27541da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5522 (SK-NET FDDI-UP DAS) 27551da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5541 (SK-NET FDDI-FP) 27561da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5543 (SK-NET FDDI-LP) 27571da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5544 (SK-NET FDDI-LP DAS) 27581da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5821 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64) 27591da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5822 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64 DAS) 27601da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5841 (SK-NET FDDI-FP64) 27611da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5843 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64) 27621da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5844 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64 DAS) 27631da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS Fibre SC 27641da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre SC 27651da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS UTP 27661da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS UTP 27671da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre MIC 27681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27691da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <file:Documentation/networking/skfp.txt> for information about 27701da177e4SLinus Torvalds the driver. 27711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Questions concerning this driver can be addressed to: 27731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <linux@syskonnect.de> 27741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27751da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called skfp. This is recommended. 27771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HIPPI 27791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HIPPI driver support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2780cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET && PCI 27811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27821da177e4SLinus Torvalds HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) is a 800Mbit/sec and 27831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1600Mbit/sec dual-simplex switched or point-to-point network. HIPPI 27841da177e4SLinus Torvalds can run over copper (25m) or fiber (300m on multi-mode or 10km on 27851da177e4SLinus Torvalds single-mode). HIPPI networks are commonly used for clusters and to 27861da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to super computers. If you are connected to a HIPPI network 27871da177e4SLinus Torvalds and have a HIPPI network card in your computer that you want to use 27881da177e4SLinus Torvalds under Linux, say Y here (you must also remember to enable the driver 27891da177e4SLinus Torvalds for your HIPPI card below). Most people will say N here. 27901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27911da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER 27921da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Essential RoadRunner HIPPI PCI adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27931da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on HIPPI && PCI 27941da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27951da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if this is your PCI HIPPI network card. 27961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27971da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27981da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called rrunner. If unsure, say N. 27991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER_LARGE_RINGS 28011da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use large TX/RX rings (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28021da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ROADRUNNER 28031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the RoadRunner driver will preallocate up to 2 MB 28051da177e4SLinus Torvalds of additional memory to allow for fastest operation, both for 28061da177e4SLinus Torvalds transmitting and receiving. This memory cannot be used by any other 28071da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel code or by user space programs. Say Y here only if you have 28081da177e4SLinus Torvalds the memory. 28091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PLIP 28111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PLIP (parallel port) support" 2812cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PARPORT 28131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28141da177e4SLinus Torvalds PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a 28151da177e4SLinus Torvalds reasonably fast mini network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) 28161da177e4SLinus Torvalds local machines. A PLIP link from a Linux box is a popular means to 28171da177e4SLinus Torvalds install a Linux distribution on a machine which doesn't have a 28181da177e4SLinus Torvalds CD-ROM drive (a minimal system has to be transferred with floppies 28191da177e4SLinus Torvalds first). The kernels on both machines need to have this PLIP option 28201da177e4SLinus Torvalds enabled for this to work. 28211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PLIP driver has two modes, mode 0 and mode 1. The parallel 28231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are connected 28241da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can transmit 4 28251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bits at a time (mode 0) or with special PLIP cables, to be used on 28261da177e4SLinus Torvalds bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a 28271da177e4SLinus Torvalds time (mode 1); you can find the wiring of these cables in 28281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt>. The cables can be up to 28291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15m long. Mode 0 works also if one of the machines runs DOS/Windows 28301da177e4SLinus Torvalds and has some PLIP software installed, e.g. the Crynwr PLIP packet 28311da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver (<http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/pktdrvr-pre.html>) 28321da177e4SLinus Torvalds and winsock or NCSA's telnet. 28331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use PLIP, say Y and read the PLIP mini-HOWTO as well 28351da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NET-3-HOWTO, both available from 28361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the PLIP 28371da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol has been changed and this PLIP driver won't work together 28381da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the PLIP support in Linux versions 1.0.x. This option enlarges 28391da177e4SLinus Torvalds your kernel by about 8 KB. 28401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 284157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 284257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called plip. If unsure, say Y or M, in case you buy 284357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk a laptop later. 28441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP 28461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support" 2847b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 28481da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28491da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP (Point to Point Protocol) is a newer and better SLIP. It serves 28501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the same purpose: sending Internet traffic over telephone (and other 28511da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial) lines. Ask your access provider if they support it, because 28521da177e4SLinus Torvalds otherwise you can't use it; most Internet access providers these 28531da177e4SLinus Torvalds days support PPP rather than SLIP. 28541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28551da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use PPP, you need an additional program called pppd as described 28561da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the PPP-HOWTO, available at 28571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Make sure that you have 28581da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version of pppd recommended in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 28591da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP option enlarges your kernel by about 16 KB. 28601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28611da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are actually two versions of PPP: the traditional PPP for 28621da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous lines, such as regular analog phone lines, and 28631da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP which can be used over digital ISDN lines for 28641da177e4SLinus Torvalds example. If you want to use PPP over phone lines or other 28651da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial lines, you need to say Y (or M) here and also to 28661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the next option, "PPP support for async serial ports". For PPP over 28671da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous lines, you should say Y (or M) here and to "Support 28681da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP", below. 28691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you said Y to "Version information on all symbols" above, then 28711da177e4SLinus Torvalds you cannot compile the PPP driver into the kernel; you can then only 28721da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile it as a module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M 287357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk here. The module will be called ppp_generic. 28741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_MULTILINK 28761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 28781da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28791da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you 28801da177e4SLinus Torvalds to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP 28811da177e4SLinus Torvalds connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth. 28821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28831da177e4SLinus Torvalds This has to be supported at the other end as well and you need a 28841da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the pppd daemon which understands the multilink protocol. 28851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 28871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_FILTER 28891da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP filtering" 28901da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28911da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to be able to filter the packets passing over 28931da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP interfaces. This allows you to control which packets count as 28941da177e4SLinus Torvalds activity (i.e. which packets will reset the idle timer or bring up 289547c51431SJon Mason a demand-dialed link) and which packets are to be dropped entirely. 28961da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need to say Y here if you wish to use the pass-filter and 28971da177e4SLinus Torvalds active-filter options to pppd. 28981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28991da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 29001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_ASYNC 29021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for async serial ports" 29031da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 29041da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 29051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over standard 29071da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial ports, such as COM1 or COM2 on a PC. If you use 29081da177e4SLinus Torvalds a modem (not a synchronous or ISDN modem) to contact your ISP, you 29091da177e4SLinus Torvalds need this option. 29101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 29121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 29141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_SYNC_TTY 29161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for sync tty ports" 29171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 29181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over synchronous 29201da177e4SLinus Torvalds (HDLC) tty devices, such as the SyncLink adapter. These devices 29211da177e4SLinus Torvalds are often used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1. 29221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 29241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_DEFLATE 29261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP Deflate compression" 29271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 29281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 29291da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 29301da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29311da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the Deflate compression method for PPP, which uses the 29321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate algorithm (the same algorithm that gzip uses) to compress 29331da177e4SLinus Torvalds each PPP packet before it is sent over the wire. The machine at the 29341da177e4SLinus Torvalds other end of the PPP link (usually your ISP) has to support the 29351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate compression method as well for this to be useful. Even if 29361da177e4SLinus Torvalds they don't support it, it is safe to say Y here. 29371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 29391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_BSDCOMP 29411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP BSD-Compress compression" 29421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 29431da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the BSD-Compress compression method for PPP, which uses 29451da177e4SLinus Torvalds the LZW compression method to compress each PPP packet before it is 29461da177e4SLinus Torvalds sent over the wire. The machine at the other end of the PPP link 29471da177e4SLinus Torvalds (usually your ISP) has to support the BSD-Compress compression 29481da177e4SLinus Torvalds method as well for this to be useful. Even if they don't support it, 29491da177e4SLinus Torvalds it is safe to say Y here. 29501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29511da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression", 29521da177e4SLinus Torvalds above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better 29531da177e4SLinus Torvalds and is patent-free. 29541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the BSD compression code will always be compiled as a 29561da177e4SLinus Torvalds module; it is called bsd_comp and will show up in the directory 29571da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules once you have said "make modules". If unsure, say N. 29581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2959b3f9b92aSMatt Domschconfig PPP_MPPE 2960b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch tristate "PPP MPPE compression (encryption) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2961b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 2962b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO 2963b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_SHA1 2964b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_ARC4 2965bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_ECB 2966b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch ---help--- 2967b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Support for the MPPE Encryption protocol, as employed by the 2968b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. 2969b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 2970b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch See http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ for information on 2971b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch configuring PPTP clients and servers to utilize this method. 2972b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 29731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOE 29741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP 29761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for PPP over Ethernet. 29781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29791da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver requires the latest version of pppd from the CVS 29801da177e4SLinus Torvalds repository at cvs.samba.org. Alternatively, see the 29811da177e4SLinus Torvalds RoaringPenguin package (<http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe>) 29821da177e4SLinus Torvalds which contains instruction on how to use this driver (under 29831da177e4SLinus Torvalds the heading "Kernel mode PPPoE"). 29841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOATM 29861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over ATM" 29871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ATM && PPP 29881da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support PPP (Point to Point Protocol) encapsulated in ATM frames. 29901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation does not yet comply with section 8 of RFC2364, 29911da177e4SLinus Torvalds which can lead to bad results if the ATM peer loses state and 29921da177e4SLinus Torvalds changes its encapsulation unilaterally. 29931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29943557baabSJames Chapmanconfig PPPOL2TP 29953557baabSJames Chapman tristate "PPP over L2TP (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2996143cf353SJames Chapman depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP && INET 29973557baabSJames Chapman help 29983557baabSJames Chapman Support for PPP-over-L2TP socket family. L2TP is a protocol 29993557baabSJames Chapman used by ISPs and enterprises to tunnel PPP traffic over UDP 30003557baabSJames Chapman tunnels. L2TP is replacing PPTP for VPN uses. 30013557baabSJames Chapman 30023557baabSJames Chapman This kernel component handles only L2TP data packets: a 30033557baabSJames Chapman userland daemon handles L2TP the control protocol (tunnel 30043557baabSJames Chapman and session setup). One such daemon is OpenL2TP 30053557baabSJames Chapman (http://openl2tp.sourceforge.net/). 30063557baabSJames Chapman 30071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP 30081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SLIP (serial line) support" 30091da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30101da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to use SLIP or CSLIP (compressed SLIP) to 30111da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to your Internet service provider or to connect to some 30121da177e4SLinus Torvalds other local Unix box or if you want to configure your Linux box as a 30131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Slip/CSlip server for other people to dial in. SLIP (Serial Line 30141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet Protocol) is a protocol used to send Internet traffic over 30151da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial connections such as telephone lines or null modem cables; 30161da177e4SLinus Torvalds nowadays, the protocol PPP is more commonly used for this same 30171da177e4SLinus Torvalds purpose. 30181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally, your access provider has to support SLIP in order for you 30201da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be able to use it, but there is now a SLIP emulator called SLiRP 30211da177e4SLinus Torvalds around (available from 30221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 30231da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection. If 30241da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, make sure to say Y to CSLIP, below. The 30251da177e4SLinus Torvalds NET-3-HOWTO, available from 30261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to 30271da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure SLIP. Note that you don't need this option if you just 30281da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to run term (term is a program which gives you almost full 30291da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up shell account on 30301da177e4SLinus Torvalds some Internet connected Unix computer. Read 30311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>). SLIP 30321da177e4SLinus Torvalds support will enlarge your kernel by about 4 KB. If unsure, say N. 30331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 303457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 303557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called slip. 30361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_COMPRESSED 30381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CSLIP compressed headers" 30391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 3040b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 30411da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30421da177e4SLinus Torvalds This protocol is faster than SLIP because it uses compression on the 30431da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP/IP headers (not on the data itself), but it has to be supported 30441da177e4SLinus Torvalds on both ends. Ask your access provider if you are not sure and 30451da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y, just in case. You will still be able to use plain SLIP. If 30461da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, the SLIP emulator (available from 30471da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 30481da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection, you 30491da177e4SLinus Torvalds definitely want to say Y here. The NET-3-HOWTO, available from 30501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to configure 30511da177e4SLinus Torvalds CSLIP. This won't enlarge your kernel. 30521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3053b6e37e55SRalf Baechleconfig SLHC 3054b6e37e55SRalf Baechle tristate 3055b6e37e55SRalf Baechle help 3056b6e37e55SRalf Baechle This option enables Van Jacobsen serial line header compression 3057b6e37e55SRalf Baechle routines. 3058b6e37e55SRalf Baechle 30591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_SMART 30601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Keepalive and linefill" 30611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adds additional capabilities to the SLIP driver to support the 30641da177e4SLinus Torvalds RELCOM line fill and keepalive monitoring. Ideal on poor quality 30651da177e4SLinus Torvalds analogue lines. 30661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 30681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Six bit SLIP encapsulation" 30691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Just occasionally you may need to run IP over hostile serial 30721da177e4SLinus Torvalds networks that don't pass all control characters or are only seven 30731da177e4SLinus Torvalds bit. Saying Y here adds an extra mode you can use with SLIP: 30741da177e4SLinus Torvalds "slip6". In this mode, SLIP will only send normal ASCII symbols over 30751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the serial device. Naturally, this has to be supported at the other 30761da177e4SLinus Torvalds end of the link as well. It's good enough, for example, to run IP 30771da177e4SLinus Torvalds over the async ports of a Camtec JNT Pad. If unsure, say N. 30781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_FC 30801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 3081cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on SCSI && PCI 30821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 30841da177e4SLinus Torvalds large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 30851da177e4SLinus Torvalds intended to replace SCSI. 30861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 30881da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 30891da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 30901da177e4SLinus Torvalds "SCSI generic support". 30911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NETCONSOLE 30931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30945e43db77SMatt Mackall depends on EXPERIMENTAL 30951da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30961da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 30971da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 30981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30990bcc1816SSatyam Sharmaconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 31000bcc1816SSatyam Sharma bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)" 31010bcc1816SSatyam Sharma depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 31020bcc1816SSatyam Sharma select CONFIGFS_FS 31030bcc1816SSatyam Sharma help 31040bcc1816SSatyam Sharma This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 31050bcc1816SSatyam Sharma parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 31060bcc1816SSatyam Sharma at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 31070bcc1816SSatyam Sharma See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 31080bcc1816SSatyam Sharma 310954208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL 311054208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETCONSOLE 311154208991SRandy Dunlap 311254208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL_TRAP 311354208991SRandy Dunlap bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" 311454208991SRandy Dunlap default n 311554208991SRandy Dunlap depends on NETPOLL 311654208991SRandy Dunlap 311754208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 311854208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETPOLL 311954208991SRandy Dunlap 3120296f96fcSRusty Russellconfig VIRTIO_NET 3121296f96fcSRusty Russell tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3122296f96fcSRusty Russell depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO 3123296f96fcSRusty Russell ---help--- 31240ad07ec1SAnthony Liguori This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 31250ad07ec1SAnthony Liguori lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 3126296f96fcSRusty Russell 3127d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 3128