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 817e190d6b1SBryan Wu tristate "Blackfin 536/537 on-chip mac support" 818e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on NET_ETHERNET && (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" 831e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC && 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 858e190d6b1SBryan Wu default n 859e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 860e190d6b1SBryan Wu Use Reduced PHY MII Interface 861e190d6b1SBryan Wu 8621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMC9194 8631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC 9194 support" 8641da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && (ISA || MAC && BROKEN) 8651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 8661da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8671da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is support for the SMC9xxx based Ethernet cards. Choose this 8681da177e4SLinus Torvalds option if you have a DELL laptop with the docking station, or 8691da177e4SLinus Torvalds another SMC9192/9194 based chipset. Say Y if you want it compiled 8701da177e4SLinus Torvalds into the kernel, and read the file 8711da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 8721da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 87457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc9194. 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 877d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtconfig SMC91X 878d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt tristate "SMC 91C9x/91C1xxx support" 879d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select CRC32 880d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select MII 88195af9febSMike Frysinger depends on ARM || REDWOOD_5 || REDWOOD_6 || M32R || SUPERH || SOC_AU1X00 || BLACKFIN 882d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt help 883d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This is a driver for SMC's 91x series of Ethernet chipsets, 884d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt including the SMC91C94 and the SMC91C111. Say Y if you want it 885d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt compiled into the kernel, and read the file 886d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 887d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 888d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 889d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be 890d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 891d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt The module will be called smc91x. If you want to compile it as a 89257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 893d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 89492aa674dSSascha Hauerconfig NET_NETX 89592aa674dSSascha Hauer tristate "NetX Ethernet support" 89692aa674dSSascha Hauer select MII 897d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ARCH_NETX 89892aa674dSSascha Hauer help 89992aa674dSSascha Hauer This is support for the Hilscher netX builtin Ethernet ports 90092aa674dSSascha Hauer 90157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 90292aa674dSSascha Hauer will be called netx-eth. 90392aa674dSSascha Hauer 904a1365275SSascha Hauerconfig DM9000 905a1365275SSascha Hauer tristate "DM9000 support" 906f40d24d9SAlex Landau depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || MIPS 907a1365275SSascha Hauer select CRC32 908a1365275SSascha Hauer select MII 909a1365275SSascha Hauer ---help--- 910a1365275SSascha Hauer Support for DM9000 chipset. 911a1365275SSascha Hauer 91257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 91357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called dm9000. 914a1365275SSascha Hauer 9150a0c72c9SDustin McIntireconfig SMC911X 9160a0c72c9SDustin McIntire tristate "SMSC LAN911[5678] support" 9170a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select CRC32 9180a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select MII 9190313d988SPaul Mundt depends on ARCH_PXA || SH_MAGIC_PANEL_R2 9200a0c72c9SDustin McIntire help 9210a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x series of Ethernet chipsets 9220a0c72c9SDustin McIntire including the new LAN9115, LAN9116, LAN9117, and LAN9118. 9230a0c72c9SDustin McIntire Say Y if you want it compiled into the kernel, 9240a0c72c9SDustin McIntire and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9250a0c72c9SDustin McIntire <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 9260a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9270a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This driver is also available as a module. The module will be 9280a0c72c9SDustin McIntire called smc911x. If you want to compile it as a module, say M 92939f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt> 9300a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_RACAL 9321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards" 933d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 9341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, such 9361da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NI5010, NI5210 or NI6210, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 9371da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 9401da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 9411da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about NI cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 9421da177e4SLinus Torvalds your specific card in the following questions. 9431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI5010 9451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5010 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN_ON_SMP 9471da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this is still 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental code. 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 95357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni5010. 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI52 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5210 support" 9581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 96457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni52. 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI65 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI6510 support" 969a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9711da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 97557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni65. 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9781da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig" 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9801da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AT1700 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT1700/1720 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 982d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on (ISA || MCA_LEGACY) && EXPERIMENTAL 9831da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 98957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called at1700. 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEPCA 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support" 994d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || MCA 9951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9971da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:drivers/net/depca.c>. 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called depca. 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HP100 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support" 1007d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10101da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 101357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp100. 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_ISA 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Other ISA cards" 1018d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your network (Ethernet) card hasn't been mentioned yet and its 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus system (that's the way the cards talks to the other components 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your computer) is ISA (as opposed to EISA, VLB or PCI), say Y. 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds Make sure you know the name of your card. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 10241da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds the remaining ISA network card questions. If you say Y, you will be 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds asked for your specific card in the following questions. 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E2100 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cabletron E21xx support" 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10361da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 104257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e2100. 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EWRK3 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support" 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the DE203, DE204 and DE205 network (Ethernet) 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. If this is for you, say Y and read 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt> in the kernel source as 10531da177e4SLinus Torvalds well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 105657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ewrk3. 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpress 16 support" 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an EtherExpress16 network (Ethernet) card, say Y and 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the Intel 10661da177e4SLinus Torvalds EtherExpress16 card used to be regarded as a very poor choice 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds because the driver was very unreliable. We now have a new driver 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds that should do better. 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 107057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eexpress. 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10731da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS_PRO 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro support/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support" 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y. This 107847c51431SJon Mason driver supports Intel i82595{FX,TX} based boards. Note however 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds that the EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet card has its own separate 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. Please read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 108357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro. 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN_PLUS 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support" 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 109557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 10961da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp-plus. 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support" 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11011da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 110757ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp. 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LP486E 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "LP486E on board Ethernet" 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the 82596-based on-board Ethernet controller 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds for the Panther motherboard, which is one of the two shipped in the 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Intel Professional Workstation. 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ETH16I 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support" 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 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 eth16i. 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2000 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000/NE1000 support" 113157e386ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_ISA || (Q40 && m) || M32R || TOSHIBA_RBTX4927 || TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Many Ethernet cards 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000. 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI 114028beaf65SJesper Juhl NE2000 and clone support" under "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board 114128beaf65SJesper Juhl controllers" below. If you have a NE2000 card and are running on 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds an MCA system (a bus system used on some IBM PS/2 computers and 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds laptops), say N here and Y to "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support", 11441da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 114657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne. 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZNET 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Zenith Z-Note support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1151a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && ISA_DMA_API 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Zenith Z-Note notebook computer has a built-in network 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds (Ethernet) card, and this is the Linux driver for it. Note that the 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds IBM Thinkpad 300 is compatible with the Z-Note and is also supported 11561da177e4SLinus Torvalds by this driver. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SEEQ8005 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SEEQ8005 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the SEEQ 8005 network (Ethernet) card. If this 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds is for you, read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 116757ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11681da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called seeq8005. 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2_MCA 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support" 1172d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MCA_LEGACY 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 117957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2. 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMLANA 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Adapter/A support" 1184d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Micro Channel Ethernet adapter. You need to set 11871da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_MCA to use this driver. It is both available as an in-kernel 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver and as a module. 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 119057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The only 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently supported card is the IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. It 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds will both support 16K and 32K memory windows, however a 32K window 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds gives a better security against packet losses. Usage of multiple 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds boards with this driver should be possible, but has not been tested 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to now due to lack of hardware. 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMVETH 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Virtual Ethernet support" 1199d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PSERIES 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12011da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports virtual ethernet adapters on newer IBM iSeries 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds and pSeries systems. 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 120457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called ibmveth. 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12071d3bb996SDavid Gibsonsource "drivers/net/ibm_emac/Kconfig" 12081d3bb996SDavid Gibsonsource "drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig" 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_PCI 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" 1212d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is another class of network cards which attach directly to the 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus. If you have one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network cards. If you say Y, you 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific card in the following questions. If 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds you are unsure, say Y. 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCNET32 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD PCnet32 PCI support" 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCnet32 or PCnetPCI based network (Ethernet) card, 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 123457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called pcnet32. 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12377de745e5SDon Fryconfig PCNET32_NAPI 1238659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)" 1239659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net depends on PCNET32 12407de745e5SDon Fry help 12417de745e5SDon Fry NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 12427de745e5SDon Fry when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 12437de745e5SDon Fry still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 12447de745e5SDon Fry 12457de745e5SDon Fry If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 12467de745e5SDon Fry deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 12477de745e5SDon Fry then say Y here. 12487de745e5SDon Fry 12497de745e5SDon Fry If in doubt, say N. 12507de745e5SDon Fry 12511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111_ETH 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD 8111 (new PCI lance) support" 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 12541da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 12561da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an AMD 8111-based PCI lance ethernet card, 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 12591da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 126157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 12621da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called amd8111e. 1263d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 12641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111E_NAPI 1265bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)" 12661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on AMD8111_ETH 12671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 12701da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 12711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 12731da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 12741da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 12751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 12771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE 12791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support" 12801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 12811da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 12831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Adaptec Starfire (or DuraLAN) PCI network 12851da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The DuraLAN chip is used on the 64 bit PCI boards from 12861da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adaptec e.g. the ANA-6922A. The older 32 bit boards use the tulip 12871da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. 12881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 12901da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called starfire. This is recommended. 12911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE_NAPI 12931da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 12941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADAPTEC_STARFIRE && EXPERIMENTAL 12951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12961da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 12971da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 12981da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 12991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 13011da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 13021da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 13031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 13051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AC3200 13071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || EISA) && EXPERIMENTAL 13091da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 131557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ac3200. 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13181da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APRICOT 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet" 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && ISA 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 13231da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 132657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 132757ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called apricot. 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig B44 1330753f4920SMichael Buesch tristate "Broadcom 440x/47xx ethernet support" 1331753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on SSB_POSSIBLE 1332753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1335753f4920SMichael Buesch If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y 1336753f4920SMichael Buesch or M and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13371da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 133957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 134057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called b44. 13411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1342753f4920SMichael Buesch# Auto-select SSB PCI-HOST support, if possible 1343753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT 1344753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1345753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44 && SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE 1346753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB_PCIHOST 1347753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1348753f4920SMichael Buesch 1349753f4920SMichael Buesch# Auto-select SSB PCICORE driver, if possible 1350753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1351753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1352753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44 && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE_POSSIBLE 1353753f4920SMichael Buesch select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE 1354753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1355753f4920SMichael Buesch 1356753f4920SMichael Bueschconfig B44_PCI 1357753f4920SMichael Buesch bool 1358753f4920SMichael Buesch depends on B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT && B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1359753f4920SMichael Buesch default y 1360753f4920SMichael Buesch 13611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FORCEDETH 136282770086SAdrian Bunk tristate "nForce Ethernet support" 136382770086SAdrian Bunk depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13671da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 136957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 137057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called forcedeth. 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1372e27cdba5SStephen Hemmingerconfig FORCEDETH_NAPI 1373bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1374e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger depends on FORCEDETH && EXPERIMENTAL 1375e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger help 1376e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1377e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 1378e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 1379e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1380e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1381e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1382e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger then say Y here. 1383e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1384e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If in doubt, say N. 13851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CS89x0 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CS89x0 support" 13889c878967SDeepak Saxena depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || MACH_IXDP2351 || ARCH_IXDP2X01 || ARCH_PNX010X) 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read the 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt>. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 139657ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 139757ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called cs89x0. 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TC35815 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support" 1401eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS 1402eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto select MII 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEPRO100 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)" 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI network (Ethernet) 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 141357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro100. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E100 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support" 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/100 family of adapters. 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To verify that your adapter is supported, find the board ID number 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the adapter. Look for a label that has a barcode and a number 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the format 123456-001 (six digits hyphen three digits). 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Use the above information and the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds to identify the adapter. 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds For the latest Intel PRO/100 network driver for Linux, see: 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp> 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e100.txt>. 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 144057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14411da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e100. 14421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LNE390 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 145257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called lne390. 14541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEALNX 14561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support" 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the Mysom MTD-800 family of PCI-based Ethernet 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. Specifications and data at 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.myson.com.hk/mtd/datasheet/>. 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14651da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NATSEMI 14661da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" 14671da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14701da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the National Semiconductor DP83810 series, 14711da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is used in cards from PureData, NetGear, Linksys 14721da177e4SLinus Torvalds and others, including the 83815 chip. 14731da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 14741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html>. 14751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2K_PCI 14771da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)" 14781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14791da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14801da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 14811da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000 14831da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card, 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also works for the following NE2000 clone cards: 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds RealTek RTL-8029 Winbond 89C940 Compex RL2000 KTI ET32P2 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds NetVin NV5000SC Via 86C926 SureCom NE34 Winbond 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Holtek HT80232 Holtek HT80229 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 149257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2k-pci. 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE3210 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Novell/Eagle/Microdyne NE3210 EISA support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this driver 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds will NOT WORK for NE3200 cards as they are completely different. 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 150557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne3210. 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ES3210 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Racal-Interlan EISA ES3210 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 151757ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called es3210. 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139CP 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15311da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139cp. This is recommended. 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO 1535f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk tristate "RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1541f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and 1542f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139too. This is recommended. 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_PIO 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use PIO instead of MMIO" 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use programmed I/O ports (PIO) instead 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds of PCI shared memory (MMIO). This can possibly solve some problems 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds in case your mainboard has memory consistency issues. If unsure, 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER 15581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K (automatic channel equalization)" 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implements a function which might come in handy in case you 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds are using low quality on long cabling. It is required for RealTek 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8139 revision K boards, and totally unused otherwise. It tries 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds to match the transceiver to the cable characteristics. This is 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental since hardly documented by the manufacturer. 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_8129 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards" 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables support for the older and uncommon RTL-8129 and 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8130 chips, which support MII via an external transceiver, 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds instead of an internal one. Disabling this option will save some 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds memory by making the code size smaller. If unsure, say Y. 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139_OLD_RX_RESET 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use older RX-reset method" 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new" 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds experience problems, you can enable this option to restore the 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds old RX-reset behavior. If unsure, say N. 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15877a47dd7aSSten Wangconfig R6040 15887a47dd7aSSten Wang tristate "RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15897a47dd7aSSten Wang depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15907a47dd7aSSten Wang select CRC32 15917a47dd7aSSten Wang select MII 15927a47dd7aSSten Wang help 15937a47dd7aSSten Wang This is a driver for the R6040 Fast Ethernet MACs found in the 15947a47dd7aSSten Wang the RDC R-321x System-on-chips. 15957a47dd7aSSten Wang 15967a47dd7aSSten Wang To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 15977a47dd7aSSten Wang will be called r6040. This is recommended. 15987a47dd7aSSten Wang 15991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SIS900 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16036da0f685SAdrian Bunk select MII 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in 1607c3cf560eSAdrian Bunk SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds your phone line as a network cable. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sis900. This is recommended. 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPIC100 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC EtherPower II" 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the SMC EtherPower II 9432 PCI Ethernet NIC, 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is based on the SMC83c17x (EPIC/100). 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/epic100.html>. 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sundance Alta support" 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the Sundance "Alta" chip. 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html>. 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE_MMIO 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNDANCE 16391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable memory-mapped I/O for interaction with Sundance NIC registers. 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Do NOT enable this by default, PIO (enabled when MMIO is disabled) 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds is known to solve bugs on certain chips. 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TLAN 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TI ThunderLAN support" 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (PCI || EISA) && !64BIT 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI Ethernet network card based on the ThunderLAN chip 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is supported by this driver, say Y and read the 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Devices currently supported by this driver are Compaq Netelligent, 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Compaq NetFlex and Olicom cards. Please read the file 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/tlan.txt> for more details. 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 165957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 16601da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tlan. 16611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please email feedback to <torben.mathiasen@compaq.com>. 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Rhine support" 16661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Rhine" based network card (Rhine-I (VT86C100A), 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rhine-II (VT6102), or Rhine-III (VT6105)), say Y here. Rhine-type 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet functions can also be found integrated on South Bridges 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds (e.g. VT8235). 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 16761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-rhine. 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE_MMIO 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VIA_RHINE 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use PCI shared memory (MMIO) instead of 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds programmed I/O ports (PIO). Enabling this gives an improvement in 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds processing time in parts of the driver. 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1688633949a1SRoger Luethiconfig VIA_RHINE_NAPI 1689633949a1SRoger Luethi bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 1690633949a1SRoger Luethi depends on VIA_RHINE 1691633949a1SRoger Luethi help 1692633949a1SRoger Luethi NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1693633949a1SRoger Luethi when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 1694633949a1SRoger Luethi 1695633949a1SRoger Luethi If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1696633949a1SRoger Luethi deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1697633949a1SRoger Luethi then say Y here. 1698633949a1SRoger Luethi 16991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LAN_SAA9730 1700f2b67c79SRalf Baechle bool "Philips SAA9730 Ethernet support" 1701f2b67c79SRalf Baechle depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS_ATLAS 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds The SAA9730 is a combined multimedia and peripheral controller used 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds in thin clients, Internet access terminals, and diskless 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds workstations. 17061da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/SAA9730_flyer_1>. 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1708bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barrosconfig SC92031 1709bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros tristate "Silan SC92031 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1710bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1711bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros select CRC32 1712bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros ---help--- 1713bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1714bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros the Silan SC92031 chip (sometimes also called Rsltek 8139D). If you 1715bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros have one of these, say Y here. 1716bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 1717bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1718bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros will be called sc92031. This is recommended. 1719bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 1720d95b39c3SMatteo Croceconfig CPMAC 1721d95b39c3SMatteo Croce tristate "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1722d95b39c3SMatteo Croce depends on NET_ETHERNET && EXPERIMENTAL && AR7 1723d95b39c3SMatteo Croce select PHYLIB 1724d95b39c3SMatteo Croce select FIXED_PHY 1725d95b39c3SMatteo Croce select FIXED_MII_100_FDX 1726d95b39c3SMatteo Croce help 1727d95b39c3SMatteo Croce TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support 1728d95b39c3SMatteo Croce 17291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_POCKET 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Pocket and portable adapters" 1731d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PARPORT 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cute little network (Ethernet) devices which attach to the parallel 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds port ("pocket adapters"), commonly used with laptops. If you have 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to plug a network (or some other) card into the PCMCIA 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds (or PC-card) slot of your laptop instead (PCMCIA is the standard for 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds credit card size extension cards used by all modern laptops), you 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds need the pcmcia-cs package (location contained in the file 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/Changes>) and you can say N here. 17431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Laptop users should read the Linux Laptop home page at 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/>. 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network devices. If you say Y, you 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific device in the following questions. 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ATP 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support" 175532fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT && X86 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:drivers/net/atp.c> as well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you should have 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds said N to the "Parallel printer support", because the two drivers 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't like each other. 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called atp. 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE600 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE600 pocket adapter support" 177032fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de600. 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE620 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE620 pocket adapter support" 178532fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 17861da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17961da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de620. 17971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGISEEQ 17991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SGI Seeq ethernet controller support" 180049b11bc3SThomas Bogendoerfer depends on SGI_HAS_SEEQ 18011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Seeq based Ethernet network card. This is 18031da177e4SLinus Torvalds used in many Silicon Graphics machines. 18041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DECLANCE 18061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEC LANCE ethernet controller support" 1807d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MACH_DECSTATION 18081da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 18091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the series of Ethernet controllers produced by 18111da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEC (now Compaq) based on the AMD Lance chipset, including the 18121da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEPCA series. (This chipset is better known via the NE2100 cards.) 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 68360_ENET 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Motorola 68360 ethernet controller" 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on M68360 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in ethernet controller of 18191da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Motorola 68360 processor. 18201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18211da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEC 18222af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "FEC ethernet controller (of ColdFire CPUs)" 1823892b6252SGreg Ungerer depends on M523x || M527x || M5272 || M528x || M520x 18241da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18251da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in 10/100 Fast ethernet 18262af6921fSGreg Ungerer controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 18272af6921fSGreg Ungerer 18282af6921fSGreg Ungererconfig FEC2 18292af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "Second FEC ethernet controller (on some ColdFire CPUs)" 18302af6921fSGreg Ungerer depends on FEC 18312af6921fSGreg Ungerer help 18322af6921fSGreg Ungerer Say Y here if you want to use the second built-in 10/100 Fast 18332af6921fSGreg Ungerer ethernet controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18355d031e9eSDomen Puncerconfig FEC_MPC52xx 18365d031e9eSDomen Puncer tristate "MPC52xx FEC driver" 1837644fdf9bSGrant Likely depends on PPC_MERGE && PPC_MPC52xx && PPC_BESTCOMM_FEC 18385d031e9eSDomen Puncer select CRC32 18395d031e9eSDomen Puncer select PHYLIB 18405d031e9eSDomen Puncer ---help--- 18415d031e9eSDomen Puncer This option enables support for the MPC5200's on-chip 18425d031e9eSDomen Puncer Fast Ethernet Controller 18435d031e9eSDomen Puncer If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx.ko'. 18445d031e9eSDomen Puncer 18455d031e9eSDomen Puncerconfig FEC_MPC52xx_MDIO 18465d031e9eSDomen Puncer bool "MPC52xx FEC MDIO bus driver" 18475d031e9eSDomen Puncer depends on FEC_MPC52xx 18485d031e9eSDomen Puncer default y 18495d031e9eSDomen Puncer ---help--- 18505d031e9eSDomen Puncer The MPC5200's FEC can connect to the Ethernet either with 18515d031e9eSDomen Puncer an external MII PHY chip or 10 Mbps 7-wire interface 18525d031e9eSDomen Puncer (Motorola? industry standard). 18535d031e9eSDomen Puncer If your board uses an external PHY connected to FEC, enable this. 18545d031e9eSDomen Puncer If not sure, enable. 18555d031e9eSDomen Puncer If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx_phy.ko'. 18565d031e9eSDomen Puncer 18571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE_H8300 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000 compatible support for H8/300" 1859d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on H8300 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the NE2000 compatible 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller on the Renesas H8/300 processor. 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18641da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/fec_8xx/Kconfig" 186548257c4fSPantelis Antoniousource "drivers/net/fs_enet/Kconfig" 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1867d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NET_ETHERNET 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 18701da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Gigabit Ethernet 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 18721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1873f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_1000 1874f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (1000 Mbit)" 1875cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 1876f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 187706bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 187806bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 187906bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 188006bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 188106bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 188206bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 188306bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Note that drivers supporting both 100 and 1000 MBit may be listed 188406bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt under "Ethernet (10 or 100MBit)" instead. 188506bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 188606bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 1887f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 1888f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_1000 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support" 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bytes/frame) however it requires that your switches can handle this 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To enable Jumbo Frames, add `mtu 9000' to your ifconfig 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds line. 19001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 19021da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called acenic. 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19041da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs" 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ACENIC 19071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave 19091da177e4SLinus Torvalds out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds version)). This will reduce the size of the driver object by 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds app. 100KB. If you are not sure whether your card is a Tigon I or a 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tigon II, say N here. 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds The safe and default value for this is N. 19161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DL2K 1918df950828SKomuro tristate "DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit Ethernet support" 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 1922df950828SKomuro This driver supports DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit ethernet cards, 1923df950828SKomuro which includes 19241da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 19251da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 1926df950828SKomuro Sundance/Tamarack TC902x Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 19291da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called dl2k. 19301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000 19321da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 19331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 19351da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet family of 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 19371da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 19451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 19471da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 194957ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e1000. 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19521da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000_NAPI 19531da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 19541da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on E1000 19551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19561da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 19571da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 19581da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 19591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 19611da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 19621da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 19631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19641da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 19651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 196635ec56bbSJesse Brandeburgconfig E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT 196735ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg bool "Disable Packet Split for PCI express adapters" 196835ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg depends on E1000 196935ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg help 197035ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg Say Y here if you want to use the legacy receive path for PCI express 19719e6b4873SJames Ring hardware. 197235ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 197335ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg If in doubt, say N. 197435ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 1975bc7f75faSAuke Kokconfig E1000E 1976bc7f75faSAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 1977bc7f75faSAuke Kok depends on PCI 1978bc7f75faSAuke Kok ---help--- 1979bc7f75faSAuke Kok This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit 1980bc7f75faSAuke Kok ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters, 1981bc7f75faSAuke Kok use the regular e1000 driver For more information on how to 1982bc7f75faSAuke Kok identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 1983bc7f75faSAuke Kok 1984bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 1985bc7f75faSAuke Kok 1986bc7f75faSAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 1987bc7f75faSAuke Kok website at: 1988bc7f75faSAuke Kok 1989bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 1990bc7f75faSAuke Kok 199157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1992bc7f75faSAuke Kok will be called e1000e. 1993bc7f75faSAuke Kok 1994ab7a9831SStephen Hemmingerconfig IP1000 1995ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 1996ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1997ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger select MII 1998ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger ---help--- 1999ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards. 2000ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger 2001ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2002ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger will be called ipg. This is recommended. 2003ab7a9831SStephen Hemminger 200415d014d1SLennert Buytenheksource "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig" 200515d014d1SLennert Buytenhek 20061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MYRI_SBUS 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support" 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SBUS 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20101da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports MyriCOM Sbus gigabit Ethernet cards. 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called myri_sbus. This is recommended. 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NS83820 201647c51431SJon Mason tristate "National Semiconductor DP83820 support" 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820 series 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds of gigabit ethernet MACs. Cards using this chipset include 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the D-Link DGE-500T, PureData's PDP8023Z-TG, SMC's SMC9462TX, 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds SOHO-GA2000T, SOHO-GA2500T. The driver supports the use of 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds zero copy. 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HAMACHI 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support" 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y and read 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 20321da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 203457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds called hamachi. 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig YELLOWFIN 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html> for more 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about this driver in particular and Beowulf in general. 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20491da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called yellowfin. This is recommended. 20501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169 20521da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" 20531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20541da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 20551da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20561da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. 20571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20581da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20591da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called r8169. This is recommended. 20601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20611da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_NAPI 2062bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 20631da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && EXPERIMENTAL 20641da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20651da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 20661da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 20671da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 20681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20691da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 20701da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 20711da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 20721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 20741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_VLAN 20761da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "VLAN support" 20771da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && VLAN_8021Q 20781da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here for the r8169 driver to support the functions required 20801da177e4SLinus Torvalds by the kernel 802.1Q code. 20811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 20831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20841a9e8549SMaciej W. Rozyckiconfig SB1250_MAC 208525a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki tristate "SB1250 Gigabit Ethernet support" 208625a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC 2087f5279ffdSMaciej W. Rozycki select PHYLIB 208825a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 208925a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the 209025a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki Broadcom SiByte family of System-On-a-Chip parts. They include 209125a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki the BCM1120, BCM1125, BCM1125H, BCM1250, BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455 209225a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki and BCM1480 chips. 209325a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki 209425a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 209525a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki will be called sb1250-mac. 209625a72dfeSMaciej W. Rozycki 2097890e8d0aSFrancois Romieuconfig SIS190 2098e797637fSFrancois Romieu tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support" 2099890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu depends on PCI 2100890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu select CRC32 2101e9985d53SAdrian Bunk select MII 2102890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu ---help--- 2103e797637fSFrancois Romieu Say Y here if you have a SiS 190 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter or 2104e797637fSFrancois Romieu a SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Both are expected to 2105e797637fSFrancois Romieu appear in lan on motherboard designs which are based on SiS 965 2106e797637fSFrancois Romieu and SiS 966 south bridge. 2107890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2108890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2109890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu will be called sis190. This is recommended. 2110890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2111baef58b1SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKGE 21127a160c73SStephen Hemminger tristate "New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support" 21137a160c73SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2114baef58b1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2115baef58b1SStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2116baef58b1SStephen Hemminger This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 2117baef58b1SStephen Hemminger and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver 211846a60f2dSStephen Hemminger with better performance and more complete ethtool support. 2119baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2120baef58b1SStephen Hemminger It does not support the link failover and network management 21215ad887faSStephen Hemminger features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does. 2122baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2123c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset: 2124c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T, 2125c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872. 2126c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2127c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver, 2128c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters. 2129c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2130c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2131c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake will be called skge. This is recommended. 2132cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2133678aa1f6SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKGE_DEBUG 2134678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger bool "Debugging interface" 2135678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger depends on SKGE && DEBUG_FS 2136678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger help 2137678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 2138678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger The file debugfs/skge/ethX displays the state of the internal 2139678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger transmit and receive rings. 2140678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger 2141678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger If unsure, say N. 2142678aa1f6SStephen Hemminger 2143cd28ab6aSStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2 21448a3e3bfdSStephen Hemminger tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support" 2145f479b322SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2146cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2147cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2148cab00891SMatt LaPlante This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the 2149c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell Yukon 2 chipset: 2150c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/ 2151c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 88E8053/88E8055/88E8061/88E8062, SysKonnect SK-9E21D/SK-9S21 2152c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2153f479b322SStephen Hemminger There is companion driver for the older Marvell Yukon and 2154f479b322SStephen Hemminger Genesis based adapters: skge. 2155cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2156cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2157cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger will be called sky2. This is recommended. 2158cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 21593cf26753SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2_DEBUG 21603cf26753SStephen Hemminger bool "Debugging interface" 21613cf26753SStephen Hemminger depends on SKY2 && DEBUG_FS 21623cf26753SStephen Hemminger help 21633cf26753SStephen Hemminger This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 21643cf26753SStephen Hemminger The file debugfs/sky2/ethX displays the state of the internal 21653cf26753SStephen Hemminger transmit and receive rings. 2166c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 21673cf26753SStephen Hemminger If unsure, say N. 21681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21695ad887faSStephen Hemmingerconfig SK98LIN 21705ad887faSStephen Hemminger tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (DEPRECATED)" 21715ad887faSStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 21725ad887faSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 21735ad887faSStephen Hemminger Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 21745ad887faSStephen Hemminger compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 21755ad887faSStephen Hemminger 21765ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. This driver is 21775ad887faSStephen Hemminger deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future, 21785ad887faSStephen Hemminger it has been replaced by the skge driver. skge is cleaner and 21795ad887faSStephen Hemminger seems to work better. 21805ad887faSStephen Hemminger 21815ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate 21825ad887faSStephen Hemminger driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters. 21835ad887faSStephen Hemminger 21845ad887faSStephen Hemminger The following adapters are supported by this driver: 21855ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 21865ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C941 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 21875ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21885ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21895ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21905ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21915ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21925ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX/2TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21935ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21945ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 21955ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Belkin Gigabit Desktop Card 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 21965ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1032 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 21975ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1064 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 21985ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Abit) 21995ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Albatron) 22005ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Asus) 22015ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (ECS) 22025ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Epox) 22035ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Foxconn) 22045ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Gigabyte) 22055ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Iwill) 22065ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8050 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Intel) 22075ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8001 Adapter 22085ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8002 Adapter 22095ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8003 Adapter 22105ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8004 Adapter 22115ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8006 Adapter 22125ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8007 Adapter 22135ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8008 Adapter 22145ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8009 Adapter 22155ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8010 Adapter 22165ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8011 Adapter 22175ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8012 Adapter 22185ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8052 Adapter 22195ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (32 bit) 22205ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (64 bit) 22215ad887faSStephen Hemminger - N-Way PCI-Bus Giga-Card 1000/100/10Mbps(L) 22225ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22235ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 V2.0 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22245ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T) 22255ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22265ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9822 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T dual link) 22275ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX) 22285ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-LX Adapter 22295ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9842 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX dual link) 22305ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX) 22315ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22325ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9844 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX dual link) 22335ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9851 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22345ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition) 22355ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22365ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9862 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition dual link) 22375ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX) 22385ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter 22395ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9872 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX dual link) 22405ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9452TXV.2) 22415ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22425ad887faSStephen Hemminger The adapters support Jumbo Frames. 22435ad887faSStephen Hemminger The dual link adapters support link-failover and dual port features. 22445ad887faSStephen Hemminger Both Marvell Yukon and SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx adapters support 22455ad887faSStephen Hemminger the scatter-gather functionality with sendfile(). Please refer to 22465ad887faSStephen Hemminger <file:Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt> for more information about 22475ad887faSStephen Hemminger optional driver parameters. 22485ad887faSStephen Hemminger Questions concerning this driver may be addressed to: 22495ad887faSStephen Hemminger <linux@syskonnect.de> 22505ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22515ad887faSStephen Hemminger If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be 22525ad887faSStephen Hemminger inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 22535ad887faSStephen Hemminger say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. The module will 22545ad887faSStephen Hemminger be called sk98lin. This is recommended. 22555ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_VELOCITY 22571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Velocity support" 225873815538SYoichi Yuasa depends on PCI 22591da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 22601da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 22611da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 22621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 22631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Velocity" based network card say Y here. 22641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 22651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 22661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-velocity. 22671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 22681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TIGON3 22691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" 22701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 22711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 22721da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. 22731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 22741da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 22751da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tg3. This is recommended. 22761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2277b6016b76SMichael Chanconfig BNX2 2278b6016b76SMichael Chan tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII support" 2279b6016b76SMichael Chan depends on PCI 2280fba9fe91SMichael Chan select CRC32 2281fba9fe91SMichael Chan select ZLIB_INFLATE 2282b6016b76SMichael Chan help 2283b6016b76SMichael Chan This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII gigabit Ethernet cards. 2284b6016b76SMichael Chan 2285b6016b76SMichael Chan To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2286b6016b76SMichael Chan will be called bnx2. This is recommended. 2287b6016b76SMichael Chan 2288aaec0fabSJens Osterkampconfig SPIDER_NET 2289aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver" 22903342cf0eSKou Ishizaki depends on PCI && (PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE || PPC_CELLEB) 22919b15879aSChristoph Hellwig select FW_LOADER 2292aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp help 2293aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the 2294aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM. 2295aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp 22965e123b84SZang Roy-r61911config TSI108_ETH 22975e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 tristate "Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet support" 22985e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 depends on TSI108_BRIDGE 22995e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 help 23005e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 This driver supports Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet ports. 23015e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23025e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 will be called tsi108_eth. 23035e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 230402c18891SMasakazu Mokunoconfig GELIC_NET 230502c18891SMasakazu Mokuno tristate "PS3 Gigabit Ethernet driver" 230602c18891SMasakazu Mokuno depends on PPC_PS3 230702c18891SMasakazu Mokuno help 230802c18891SMasakazu Mokuno This driver supports the network device on the PS3 game 230902c18891SMasakazu Mokuno console. This driver has built-in support for Ethernet. 231002c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 231102c18891SMasakazu Mokuno To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 231202c18891SMasakazu Mokuno module will be called ps3_gelic. 231302c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 23141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GIANFAR 23151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Gianfar Ethernet" 2316ef82a306SJon Loeliger depends on 85xx || 83xx || PPC_86xx 2317bb40dcbbSAndy Fleming select PHYLIB 2318bf41a7c5SDave Jiang select CRC32 23191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2320ef82a306SJon Loeliger This driver supports the Gigabit TSEC on the MPC83xx, MPC85xx, 2321ef82a306SJon Loeliger and MPC86xx family of chips, and the FEC on the 8540. 23221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GFAR_NAPI 2324bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 23251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on GIANFAR 23261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2327ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UCC_GETH 23287d776cb5STimur Tabi tristate "Freescale QE Gigabit Ethernet" 23297d776cb5STimur Tabi depends on QUICC_ENGINE 2330296baae2SJan Altenberg select PHYLIB 2331ce973b14SLi Yang help 23327d776cb5STimur Tabi This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet mode of the QUICC Engine, 23337d776cb5STimur Tabi which is available on some Freescale SOCs. 2334ce973b14SLi Yang 2335ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_NAPI 2336bf45abebSRandy Dunlap bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 2337ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2338ce973b14SLi Yang 2339ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_MAGIC_PACKET 2340ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Magic Packet detection support" 2341ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2342ce973b14SLi Yang 2343ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_FILTERING 2344ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Mac address filtering support" 2345ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2346ce973b14SLi Yang 2347d5b9049dSMichael Reissconfig UGETH_TX_ON_DEMAND 2348d5b9049dSMichael Reiss bool "Transmit on Demand support" 2349ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2350ce973b14SLi Yang 23511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MV643XX_ETH 23529c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek tristate "Marvell Discovery (643XX) and Orion ethernet support" 23539c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek depends on MV64360 || MV64X60 || (PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC32) || ARCH_ORION 2354cd6478c8SDale Farnsworth select MII 23551da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 23569c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek This driver supports the gigabit ethernet MACs in the 23579c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Marvell Discovery PPC/MIPS chipset family (MV643XX) and 23589c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek in the Marvell Orion ARM SoC family. 23599c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek 23609c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Some boards that use the Discovery chipset are the Momenco 23619c1bbdfeSLennert Buytenhek Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and Pegasos II. 23621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23635a4faa87SRon Mercerconfig QLA3XXX 23645a4faa87SRon Mercer tristate "QLogic QLA3XXX Network Driver Support" 23655a4faa87SRon Mercer depends on PCI 23665a4faa87SRon Mercer help 23675a4faa87SRon Mercer This driver supports QLogic ISP3XXX gigabit Ethernet cards. 23685a4faa87SRon Mercer 23695a4faa87SRon Mercer To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23705a4faa87SRon Mercer will be called qla3xxx. 23715a4faa87SRon Mercer 2372f3cc28c7SJay Cliburnconfig ATL1 2373f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn tristate "Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2374a1ca14b1SJay Cliburn depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2375f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select CRC32 2376f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select MII 2377f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn help 2378f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn This driver supports the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. 2379f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2380f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2381f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn will be called atl1. 2382f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2383f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_1000 23841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23851da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 23861da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 10 Gigabit Ethernet 23871da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 23881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2389f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_10000 2390f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (10000 Mbit)" 2391cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 2392f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 239306bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 239406bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 239506bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 239606bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 239706bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 2398f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 2399f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_10000 24001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24018199d3a7SChristoph Lameterconfig CHELSIO_T1 24028199d3a7SChristoph Lameter tristate "Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet support" 24038199d3a7SChristoph Lameter depends on PCI 240457834ca1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 24058199d3a7SChristoph Lameter help 2406f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger This driver supports Chelsio gigabit and 10-gigabit 2407f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger Ethernet cards. More information about adapter features and 2408f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger performance tuning is in <file:Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt>. 24098199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24108199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 24118199d3a7SChristoph Lameter our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 24128199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24138199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 24148199d3a7SChristoph Lameter <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 24158199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24168199d3a7SChristoph Lameter Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 24178199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24188199d3a7SChristoph Lameter To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24198199d3a7SChristoph Lameter will be called cxgb. 24208199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 2421352c417dSStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_1G 2422352c417dSStephen Hemminger bool "Chelsio gigabit Ethernet support" 2423352c417dSStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 2424352c417dSStephen Hemminger help 2425352c417dSStephen Hemminger Enables support for Chelsio's gigabit Ethernet PCI cards. If you 2426352c417dSStephen Hemminger are using only 10G cards say 'N' here. 2427352c417dSStephen Hemminger 24287fe26a60SStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_NAPI 24297fe26a60SStephen Hemminger bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 24307fe26a60SStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 24317fe26a60SStephen Hemminger default y 24327fe26a60SStephen Hemminger help 24337fe26a60SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 24347fe26a60SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 24357fe26a60SStephen Hemminger 24364d22de3eSDivy Le Rayconfig CHELSIO_T3 24374d22de3eSDivy Le Ray tristate "Chelsio Communications T3 10Gb Ethernet support" 24384d22de3eSDivy Le Ray depends on PCI 24392e283962SDivy Le Ray select FW_LOADER 24404d22de3eSDivy Le Ray help 24414d22de3eSDivy Le Ray This driver supports Chelsio T3-based gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet 24424d22de3eSDivy Le Ray adapters. 24434d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24444d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 24454d22de3eSDivy Le Ray our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 24464d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24474d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 24484d22de3eSDivy Le Ray <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 24494d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24504d22de3eSDivy Le Ray Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 24514d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24524d22de3eSDivy Le Ray To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24534d22de3eSDivy Le Ray will be called cxgb3. 24544d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24557a291083SJan-Bernd Themannconfig EHEA 24567a291083SJan-Bernd Themann tristate "eHEA Ethernet support" 2457e0d5dab2SRandy Dunlap depends on IBMEBUS && INET 2458d4dc4ec9SJan-Bernd Themann select INET_LRO 24597a291083SJan-Bernd Themann ---help--- 24607a291083SJan-Bernd Themann This driver supports the IBM pSeries eHEA ethernet adapter. 24617a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 24627a291083SJan-Bernd Themann To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module 24637a291083SJan-Bernd Themann will be called ehea. 24647a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 24659a799d71SAuke Kokconfig IXGBE 24669a799d71SAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support" 24679a799d71SAuke Kok depends on PCI 24689a799d71SAuke Kok ---help--- 24699a799d71SAuke Kok This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of 24709a799d71SAuke Kok adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 24719a799d71SAuke Kok to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 24729a799d71SAuke Kok 24739a799d71SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 24749a799d71SAuke Kok 24759a799d71SAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 24769a799d71SAuke Kok website at: 24779a799d71SAuke Kok 24789a799d71SAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 24799a799d71SAuke Kok 248057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 24819a799d71SAuke Kok will be called ixgbe. 24829a799d71SAuke Kok 24831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB 24841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support" 24851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 24861da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 24879a799d71SAuke Kok This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/10GbE family of adapters for 24889a799d71SAuke Kok PCI-X type cards. For PCI-E type cards, use the "ixgbe" driver 24899a799d71SAuke Kok instead. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 24901da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 24911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 24931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24941da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 24951da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 24961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24971da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 24981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24991da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25001da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ixgb.txt>. 25011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 250257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25031da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ixgb. 25041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB_NAPI 25061da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25071da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IXGB && EXPERIMENTAL 25081da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25091da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25101da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25111da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25131da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25141da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25151da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25191da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO 25201da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "S2IO 10Gbe XFrame NIC" 25211da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 25221da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 25231da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the 10Gbe XFrame NIC of S2IO. 25249eb343aeSAkinobu Mita More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25259eb343aeSAkinobu Mita <file:Documentation/networking/s2io.txt>. 25261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO_NAPI 25281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25291da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on S2IO && EXPERIMENTAL 25301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25311da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25321da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25331da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25361da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25371da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25391da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25410da34b6dSBrice Goglinconfig MYRI10GE 25420da34b6dSBrice Goglin tristate "Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet support" 2543e0d5dab2SRandy Dunlap depends on PCI && INET 25440da34b6dSBrice Goglin select FW_LOADER 25450da34b6dSBrice Goglin select CRC32 25461e6e9342SAndrew Gallatin select INET_LRO 25470da34b6dSBrice Goglin ---help--- 25480da34b6dSBrice Goglin This driver supports Myricom Myri-10G Dual Protocol interface in 25490da34b6dSBrice Goglin Ethernet mode. If the eeprom on your board is not recent enough, 25500da34b6dSBrice Goglin you will need a newer firmware image. 25510da34b6dSBrice Goglin You may get this image or more information, at: 25520da34b6dSBrice Goglin 2553d2794905SBrice Goglin <http://www.myri.com/scs/download-Myri10GE.html> 25540da34b6dSBrice Goglin 255557ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25560da34b6dSBrice Goglin will be called myri10ge. 25570da34b6dSBrice Goglin 25583d396eb1SAmit S. Kaleconfig NETXEN_NIC 25593d396eb1SAmit S. Kale tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC" 25605ac36615SRandy Dunlap depends on PCI 25613d396eb1SAmit S. Kale help 25623d396eb1SAmit S. Kale This enables the support for NetXen's Gigabit Ethernet card. 25633d396eb1SAmit S. Kale 2564a3138df9SDavid S. Millerconfig NIU 2565a3138df9SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Neptune 10Gbit Ethernet support" 2566a3138df9SDavid S. Miller depends on PCI 2567a3138df9SDavid S. Miller help 2568a3138df9SDavid S. Miller This enables support for cards based upon Sun's 2569a3138df9SDavid S. Miller Neptune chipset. 2570a3138df9SDavid S. Miller 2571f5cd7872SOlof Johanssonconfig PASEMI_MAC 2572f5cd7872SOlof Johansson tristate "PA Semi 1/10Gbit MAC" 2573f5cd7872SOlof Johansson depends on PPC64 && PCI 2574bb6e9590SOlof Johansson select PHYLIB 257528ae79f5SOlof Johansson select INET_LRO 2576f5cd7872SOlof Johansson help 2577f5cd7872SOlof Johansson This driver supports the on-chip 1/10Gbit Ethernet controller on 2578f5cd7872SOlof Johansson PA Semi's PWRficient line of chips. 2579f5cd7872SOlof Johansson 2580225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_CORE 2581225c7b1fSRoland Dreier tristate 2582225c7b1fSRoland Dreier depends on PCI 2583225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default n 2584225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 2585225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_DEBUG 2586225c7b1fSRoland Dreier bool "Verbose debugging output" if (MLX4_CORE && EMBEDDED) 2587f550d94cSPaul Mundt depends on MLX4_CORE 2588225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default y 2589225c7b1fSRoland Dreier ---help--- 2590225c7b1fSRoland Dreier This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the 2591225c7b1fSRoland Dreier mlx4_core driver. The output can be turned on via the 2592225c7b1fSRoland Dreier debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after 2593225c7b1fSRoland Dreier the driver is loaded through sysfs). 2594225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 25951a348cccSAndy Gospodarekconfig TEHUTI 25961a348cccSAndy Gospodarek tristate "Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet" 25971a348cccSAndy Gospodarek depends on PCI 25981a348cccSAndy Gospodarek help 25991a348cccSAndy Gospodarek Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet NIC 26001a348cccSAndy Gospodarek 2601a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamirconfig BNX2X 2602a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII 10Gb support" 2603a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir depends on PCI 260407b270eaSLee Schermerhorn select ZLIB_INFLATE 2605a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir help 2606a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII 10 gigabit Ethernet cards. 2607a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2608a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir will be called bnx2x. This is recommended. 2609a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir 2610a2fbb9eaSEliezer Tamir 2611f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_10000 26121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26131da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" 26141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26151da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 26161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26175b2fc499SJeff Garziksource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 26185b2fc499SJeff Garzik 26191da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig" 26201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26211da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 26221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26231da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 26241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26251da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 26261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26270d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 26280d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 26290d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 26300d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 26310d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 26320d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to 26330d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge access network devices exported exported by a virtual 26340d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge machine containing a physical network device driver. The 26350d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge frontend driver is intended for unprivileged guest domains; 26360d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge if you are compiling a kernel for a Xen guest, you almost 26370d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge certainly want to enable this. 26380d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 26391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISERIES_VETH 26401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "iSeries Virtual Ethernet driver support" 2641cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PPC_ISERIES 26421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2643f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET 2644f89efd52SMatt Porter tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 2645a81c52a8SRandy Dunlap depends on RAPIDIO 2646f89efd52SMatt Porter 2647f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 2648f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of outbound queue entries" 2649f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2650f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2651f89efd52SMatt Porter 2652f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 2653f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of inbound queue entries" 2654f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2655f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2656f89efd52SMatt Porter 26571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FDDI 26581da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "FDDI driver support" 2659e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on (PCI || EISA || TC) 26601da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 26611da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network 26621da177e4SLinus Torvalds design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can 26631da177e4SLinus Torvalds run over copper or fiber. If you are connected to such a network and 26641da177e4SLinus Torvalds want a driver for the FDDI card in your computer, say Y here (and 26651da177e4SLinus Torvalds then also Y to the driver for your FDDI card, below). Most people 26661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will say N. 26671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEFXX 2669e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support" 2670e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC) 2671e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2672e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA), 2673e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you 2674e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki to a local FDDI network. 2675e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2676e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2677e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki will be called defxx. If unsure, say N. 2678e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2679e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozyckiconfig DEFXX_MMIO 2680e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki bool 2681e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki prompt "Use MMIO instead of PIO" if PCI || EISA 2682e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on DEFXX 2683e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default n if PCI || EISA 2684e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default y 2685e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2686e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This instructs the driver to use EISA or PCI memory-mapped I/O 2687e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki (MMIO) as appropriate instead of programmed I/O ports (PIO). 2688e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki Enabling this gives an improvement in processing time in parts 2689e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki of the driver, but it may cause problems with EISA (DEFEA) 2690e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki adapters. TURBOchannel does not have the concept of I/O ports, 2691e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki so MMIO is always used for these (DEFTA) adapters. 2692e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2693e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki If unsure, say N. 26941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SKFP 26961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support" 26971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on FDDI && PCI 2698bc63eb9cSAkinobu Mita select BITREVERSE 26991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter. 27011da177e4SLinus Torvalds The following adapters are supported by this driver: 27021da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5521 (SK-NET FDDI-UP) 27031da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5522 (SK-NET FDDI-UP DAS) 27041da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5541 (SK-NET FDDI-FP) 27051da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5543 (SK-NET FDDI-LP) 27061da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5544 (SK-NET FDDI-LP DAS) 27071da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5821 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64) 27081da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5822 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64 DAS) 27091da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5841 (SK-NET FDDI-FP64) 27101da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5843 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64) 27111da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5844 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64 DAS) 27121da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS Fibre SC 27131da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre SC 27141da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS UTP 27151da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS UTP 27161da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre MIC 27171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27181da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <file:Documentation/networking/skfp.txt> for information about 27191da177e4SLinus Torvalds the driver. 27201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27211da177e4SLinus Torvalds Questions concerning this driver can be addressed to: 27221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <linux@syskonnect.de> 27231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27251da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called skfp. This is recommended. 27261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27271da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HIPPI 27281da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HIPPI driver support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2729cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET && PCI 27301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27311da177e4SLinus Torvalds HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) is a 800Mbit/sec and 27321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1600Mbit/sec dual-simplex switched or point-to-point network. HIPPI 27331da177e4SLinus Torvalds can run over copper (25m) or fiber (300m on multi-mode or 10km on 27341da177e4SLinus Torvalds single-mode). HIPPI networks are commonly used for clusters and to 27351da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to super computers. If you are connected to a HIPPI network 27361da177e4SLinus Torvalds and have a HIPPI network card in your computer that you want to use 27371da177e4SLinus Torvalds under Linux, say Y here (you must also remember to enable the driver 27381da177e4SLinus Torvalds for your HIPPI card below). Most people will say N here. 27391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27401da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER 27411da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Essential RoadRunner HIPPI PCI adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27421da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on HIPPI && PCI 27431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if this is your PCI HIPPI network card. 27451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27461da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27471da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called rrunner. If unsure, say N. 27481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27491da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER_LARGE_RINGS 27501da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use large TX/RX rings (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27511da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ROADRUNNER 27521da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27531da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the RoadRunner driver will preallocate up to 2 MB 27541da177e4SLinus Torvalds of additional memory to allow for fastest operation, both for 27551da177e4SLinus Torvalds transmitting and receiving. This memory cannot be used by any other 27561da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel code or by user space programs. Say Y here only if you have 27571da177e4SLinus Torvalds the memory. 27581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PLIP 27601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PLIP (parallel port) support" 2761cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PARPORT 27621da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27631da177e4SLinus Torvalds PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a 27641da177e4SLinus Torvalds reasonably fast mini network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) 27651da177e4SLinus Torvalds local machines. A PLIP link from a Linux box is a popular means to 27661da177e4SLinus Torvalds install a Linux distribution on a machine which doesn't have a 27671da177e4SLinus Torvalds CD-ROM drive (a minimal system has to be transferred with floppies 27681da177e4SLinus Torvalds first). The kernels on both machines need to have this PLIP option 27691da177e4SLinus Torvalds enabled for this to work. 27701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27711da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PLIP driver has two modes, mode 0 and mode 1. The parallel 27721da177e4SLinus Torvalds ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are connected 27731da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can transmit 4 27741da177e4SLinus Torvalds bits at a time (mode 0) or with special PLIP cables, to be used on 27751da177e4SLinus Torvalds bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a 27761da177e4SLinus Torvalds time (mode 1); you can find the wiring of these cables in 27771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt>. The cables can be up to 27781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15m long. Mode 0 works also if one of the machines runs DOS/Windows 27791da177e4SLinus Torvalds and has some PLIP software installed, e.g. the Crynwr PLIP packet 27801da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver (<http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/pktdrvr-pre.html>) 27811da177e4SLinus Torvalds and winsock or NCSA's telnet. 27821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use PLIP, say Y and read the PLIP mini-HOWTO as well 27841da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NET-3-HOWTO, both available from 27851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the PLIP 27861da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol has been changed and this PLIP driver won't work together 27871da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the PLIP support in Linux versions 1.0.x. This option enlarges 27881da177e4SLinus Torvalds your kernel by about 8 KB. 27891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 279057ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 279157ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called plip. If unsure, say Y or M, in case you buy 279257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk a laptop later. 27931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27941da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP 27951da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support" 2796b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 27971da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27981da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP (Point to Point Protocol) is a newer and better SLIP. It serves 27991da177e4SLinus Torvalds the same purpose: sending Internet traffic over telephone (and other 28001da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial) lines. Ask your access provider if they support it, because 28011da177e4SLinus Torvalds otherwise you can't use it; most Internet access providers these 28021da177e4SLinus Torvalds days support PPP rather than SLIP. 28031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28041da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use PPP, you need an additional program called pppd as described 28051da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the PPP-HOWTO, available at 28061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Make sure that you have 28071da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version of pppd recommended in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 28081da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP option enlarges your kernel by about 16 KB. 28091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28101da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are actually two versions of PPP: the traditional PPP for 28111da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous lines, such as regular analog phone lines, and 28121da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP which can be used over digital ISDN lines for 28131da177e4SLinus Torvalds example. If you want to use PPP over phone lines or other 28141da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial lines, you need to say Y (or M) here and also to 28151da177e4SLinus Torvalds the next option, "PPP support for async serial ports". For PPP over 28161da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous lines, you should say Y (or M) here and to "Support 28171da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP", below. 28181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28191da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you said Y to "Version information on all symbols" above, then 28201da177e4SLinus Torvalds you cannot compile the PPP driver into the kernel; you can then only 28211da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile it as a module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M 282257ce45ddSAdrian Bunk here. The module will be called ppp_generic. 28231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_MULTILINK 28251da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28261da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 28271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28281da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you 28291da177e4SLinus Torvalds to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP 28301da177e4SLinus Torvalds connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth. 28311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This has to be supported at the other end as well and you need a 28331da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the pppd daemon which understands the multilink protocol. 28341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28351da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 28361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_FILTER 28381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP filtering" 28391da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to be able to filter the packets passing over 28421da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP interfaces. This allows you to control which packets count as 28431da177e4SLinus Torvalds activity (i.e. which packets will reset the idle timer or bring up 284447c51431SJon Mason a demand-dialed link) and which packets are to be dropped entirely. 28451da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need to say Y here if you wish to use the pass-filter and 28461da177e4SLinus Torvalds active-filter options to pppd. 28471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 28491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_ASYNC 28511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for async serial ports" 28521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28531da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 28541da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over standard 28561da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial ports, such as COM1 or COM2 on a PC. If you use 28571da177e4SLinus Torvalds a modem (not a synchronous or ISDN modem) to contact your ISP, you 28581da177e4SLinus Torvalds need this option. 28591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28601da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 28611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 28631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_SYNC_TTY 28651da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for sync tty ports" 28661da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28671da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over synchronous 28691da177e4SLinus Torvalds (HDLC) tty devices, such as the SyncLink adapter. These devices 28701da177e4SLinus Torvalds are often used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1. 28711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28721da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 28731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28741da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_DEFLATE 28751da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP Deflate compression" 28761da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28771da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 28781da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 28791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the Deflate compression method for PPP, which uses the 28811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate algorithm (the same algorithm that gzip uses) to compress 28821da177e4SLinus Torvalds each PPP packet before it is sent over the wire. The machine at the 28831da177e4SLinus Torvalds other end of the PPP link (usually your ISP) has to support the 28841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate compression method as well for this to be useful. Even if 28851da177e4SLinus Torvalds they don't support it, it is safe to say Y here. 28861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 28881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_BSDCOMP 28901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP BSD-Compress compression" 28911da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the BSD-Compress compression method for PPP, which uses 28941da177e4SLinus Torvalds the LZW compression method to compress each PPP packet before it is 28951da177e4SLinus Torvalds sent over the wire. The machine at the other end of the PPP link 28961da177e4SLinus Torvalds (usually your ISP) has to support the BSD-Compress compression 28971da177e4SLinus Torvalds method as well for this to be useful. Even if they don't support it, 28981da177e4SLinus Torvalds it is safe to say Y here. 28991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29001da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression", 29011da177e4SLinus Torvalds above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better 29021da177e4SLinus Torvalds and is patent-free. 29031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the BSD compression code will always be compiled as a 29051da177e4SLinus Torvalds module; it is called bsd_comp and will show up in the directory 29061da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules once you have said "make modules". If unsure, say N. 29071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2908b3f9b92aSMatt Domschconfig PPP_MPPE 2909b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch tristate "PPP MPPE compression (encryption) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2910b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 2911b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO 2912b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_SHA1 2913b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_ARC4 2914bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_ECB 2915b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch ---help--- 2916b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Support for the MPPE Encryption protocol, as employed by the 2917b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. 2918b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 2919b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch See http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ for information on 2920b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch configuring PPTP clients and servers to utilize this method. 2921b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 29221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOE 29231da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP 29251da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for PPP over Ethernet. 29271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver requires the latest version of pppd from the CVS 29291da177e4SLinus Torvalds repository at cvs.samba.org. Alternatively, see the 29301da177e4SLinus Torvalds RoaringPenguin package (<http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe>) 29311da177e4SLinus Torvalds which contains instruction on how to use this driver (under 29321da177e4SLinus Torvalds the heading "Kernel mode PPPoE"). 29331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOATM 29351da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over ATM" 29361da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ATM && PPP 29371da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support PPP (Point to Point Protocol) encapsulated in ATM frames. 29391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation does not yet comply with section 8 of RFC2364, 29401da177e4SLinus Torvalds which can lead to bad results if the ATM peer loses state and 29411da177e4SLinus Torvalds changes its encapsulation unilaterally. 29421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29433557baabSJames Chapmanconfig PPPOL2TP 29443557baabSJames Chapman tristate "PPP over L2TP (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2945143cf353SJames Chapman depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP && INET 29463557baabSJames Chapman help 29473557baabSJames Chapman Support for PPP-over-L2TP socket family. L2TP is a protocol 29483557baabSJames Chapman used by ISPs and enterprises to tunnel PPP traffic over UDP 29493557baabSJames Chapman tunnels. L2TP is replacing PPTP for VPN uses. 29503557baabSJames Chapman 29513557baabSJames Chapman This kernel component handles only L2TP data packets: a 29523557baabSJames Chapman userland daemon handles L2TP the control protocol (tunnel 29533557baabSJames Chapman and session setup). One such daemon is OpenL2TP 29543557baabSJames Chapman (http://openl2tp.sourceforge.net/). 29553557baabSJames Chapman 29561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP 29571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SLIP (serial line) support" 29581da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to use SLIP or CSLIP (compressed SLIP) to 29601da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to your Internet service provider or to connect to some 29611da177e4SLinus Torvalds other local Unix box or if you want to configure your Linux box as a 29621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Slip/CSlip server for other people to dial in. SLIP (Serial Line 29631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet Protocol) is a protocol used to send Internet traffic over 29641da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial connections such as telephone lines or null modem cables; 29651da177e4SLinus Torvalds nowadays, the protocol PPP is more commonly used for this same 29661da177e4SLinus Torvalds purpose. 29671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29681da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally, your access provider has to support SLIP in order for you 29691da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be able to use it, but there is now a SLIP emulator called SLiRP 29701da177e4SLinus Torvalds around (available from 29711da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 29721da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection. If 29731da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, make sure to say Y to CSLIP, below. The 29741da177e4SLinus Torvalds NET-3-HOWTO, available from 29751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to 29761da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure SLIP. Note that you don't need this option if you just 29771da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to run term (term is a program which gives you almost full 29781da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up shell account on 29791da177e4SLinus Torvalds some Internet connected Unix computer. Read 29801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>). SLIP 29811da177e4SLinus Torvalds support will enlarge your kernel by about 4 KB. If unsure, say N. 29821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 298357ce45ddSAdrian Bunk To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 298457ce45ddSAdrian Bunk will be called slip. 29851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_COMPRESSED 29871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CSLIP compressed headers" 29881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 2989b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 29901da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This protocol is faster than SLIP because it uses compression on the 29921da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP/IP headers (not on the data itself), but it has to be supported 29931da177e4SLinus Torvalds on both ends. Ask your access provider if you are not sure and 29941da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y, just in case. You will still be able to use plain SLIP. If 29951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, the SLIP emulator (available from 29961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 29971da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection, you 29981da177e4SLinus Torvalds definitely want to say Y here. The NET-3-HOWTO, available from 29991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to configure 30001da177e4SLinus Torvalds CSLIP. This won't enlarge your kernel. 30011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3002b6e37e55SRalf Baechleconfig SLHC 3003b6e37e55SRalf Baechle tristate 3004b6e37e55SRalf Baechle help 3005b6e37e55SRalf Baechle This option enables Van Jacobsen serial line header compression 3006b6e37e55SRalf Baechle routines. 3007b6e37e55SRalf Baechle 30081da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_SMART 30091da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Keepalive and linefill" 30101da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30121da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adds additional capabilities to the SLIP driver to support the 30131da177e4SLinus Torvalds RELCOM line fill and keepalive monitoring. Ideal on poor quality 30141da177e4SLinus Torvalds analogue lines. 30151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 30171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Six bit SLIP encapsulation" 30181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Just occasionally you may need to run IP over hostile serial 30211da177e4SLinus Torvalds networks that don't pass all control characters or are only seven 30221da177e4SLinus Torvalds bit. Saying Y here adds an extra mode you can use with SLIP: 30231da177e4SLinus Torvalds "slip6". In this mode, SLIP will only send normal ASCII symbols over 30241da177e4SLinus Torvalds the serial device. Naturally, this has to be supported at the other 30251da177e4SLinus Torvalds end of the link as well. It's good enough, for example, to run IP 30261da177e4SLinus Torvalds over the async ports of a Camtec JNT Pad. If unsure, say N. 30271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_FC 30291da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 3030cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on SCSI && PCI 30311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30321da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 30331da177e4SLinus Torvalds large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 30341da177e4SLinus Torvalds intended to replace SCSI. 30351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 30371da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 30381da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 30391da177e4SLinus Torvalds "SCSI generic support". 30401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NETCONSOLE 30421da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30435e43db77SMatt Mackall depends on EXPERIMENTAL 30441da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30451da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 30461da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 30471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30480bcc1816SSatyam Sharmaconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 30490bcc1816SSatyam Sharma bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30500bcc1816SSatyam Sharma depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 30510bcc1816SSatyam Sharma select CONFIGFS_FS 30520bcc1816SSatyam Sharma help 30530bcc1816SSatyam Sharma This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 30540bcc1816SSatyam Sharma parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 30550bcc1816SSatyam Sharma at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 30560bcc1816SSatyam Sharma See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 30570bcc1816SSatyam Sharma 305854208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL 305954208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETCONSOLE 306054208991SRandy Dunlap 306154208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL_TRAP 306254208991SRandy Dunlap bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" 306354208991SRandy Dunlap default n 306454208991SRandy Dunlap depends on NETPOLL 306554208991SRandy Dunlap 306654208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 306754208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETPOLL 306854208991SRandy Dunlap 3069296f96fcSRusty Russellconfig VIRTIO_NET 3070296f96fcSRusty Russell tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 3071296f96fcSRusty Russell depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO 3072296f96fcSRusty Russell ---help--- 3073296f96fcSRusty Russell This is the virtual network driver for lguest. Say Y or M. 3074296f96fcSRusty Russell 3075d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 3076