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 139e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov tristate "Virtual ethernet device" 140e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov ---help--- 141e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov The device is an ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. When 142e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice versa. 143e314dbdcSPavel Emelyanov 1441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1000 1451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 146cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PNP 1471da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1481da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 1491da177e4SLinus Torvalds NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 1501da177e4SLinus Torvalds cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 1511da177e4SLinus Torvalds TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 1521da177e4SLinus Torvalds downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 1531da177e4SLinus Torvalds provided by your regular phone modem. 1541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1551da177e4SLinus Torvalds At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 1561da177e4SLinus Torvalds you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 1571da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how 1581da177e4SLinus Torvalds to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing 1591da177e4SLinus Torvalds a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be 1601da177e4SLinus Torvalds found at: 1611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 1631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 1641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 1651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have this card, of course say N. 1671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1681da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 1691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17000db8189SAndy Flemingsource "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 17100db8189SAndy Fleming 1721da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 1731da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Ethernet 1741da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 1751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 176d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NET_ETHERNET 1771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" 178d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on !UML 1791da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 1801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 1811da177e4SLinus Torvalds type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 1821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1831da177e4SLinus Torvalds Common varieties of Ethernet are: 10BASE-2 or Thinnet (10 Mbps over 1841da177e4SLinus Torvalds coaxial cable, linking computers in a chain), 10BASE-T or twisted 1851da177e4SLinus Torvalds pair (10 Mbps over twisted pair cable, linking computers to central 1861da177e4SLinus Torvalds hubs), 10BASE-F (10 Mbps over optical fiber links, using hubs), 1871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100BASE-TX (100 Mbps over two twisted pair cables, using hubs), 1881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100BASE-T4 (100 Mbps over 4 standard voice-grade twisted pair 1891da177e4SLinus Torvalds cables, using hubs), 100BASE-FX (100 Mbps over optical fiber links) 1901da177e4SLinus Torvalds [the 100BASE varieties are also known as Fast Ethernet], and Gigabit 1911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet (1 Gbps over optical fiber or short copper links). 1921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1931da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your Linux machine will be connected to an Ethernet and you have 1941da177e4SLinus Torvalds an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) installed in your computer, 1951da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. You will then also have 1971da177e4SLinus Torvalds to say Y to the driver for your particular NIC. 1981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1991da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 2001da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 2011da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about Ethernet network cards. If unsure, say N. 2021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 203d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtif NET_ETHERNET 204d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 2051da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MII 2061da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" 2071da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2081da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external 2091da177e4SLinus Torvalds or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your 2101da177e4SLinus Torvalds ethernet card lack MII. 2111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21289e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoenconfig MACB 21389e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen tristate "Atmel MACB support" 214d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || ARCH_AT91SAM9263 2156c36a707Sfrederic RODO select PHYLIB 21689e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen help 21789e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen The Atmel MACB ethernet interface is found on many AT32 and AT91 21889e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen parts. Say Y to include support for the MACB chip. 21989e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen 22089e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 22189e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen will be called macb. 22289e5785fSHaavard Skinnemoen 2231da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/arm/Kconfig" 2241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 225825a2ff1SBen Dooksconfig AX88796 226825a2ff1SBen Dooks tristate "ASIX AX88796 NE2000 clone support" 227def47c50SJeff Garzik depends on ARM || MIPS 228825a2ff1SBen Dooks select CRC32 229825a2ff1SBen Dooks select MII 230825a2ff1SBen Dooks help 231825a2ff1SBen Dooks AX88796 driver, using platform bus to provide 232825a2ff1SBen Dooks chip detection and resources 233825a2ff1SBen Dooks 2341da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACE 2351da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MACE (Power Mac ethernet) support" 236d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 2371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2391da177e4SLinus Torvalds Power Macintoshes and clones with Ethernet built-in on the 2401da177e4SLinus Torvalds motherboard will usually use a MACE (Medium Access Control for 2411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet) interface. Say Y to include support for the MACE chip. 2421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2431da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2441da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called mace. 2451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACE_AAUI_PORT 2471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use AAUI port instead of TP by default" 2481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on MACE 2491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Some Apple machines (notably the Apple Network Server) which use the 2511da177e4SLinus Torvalds MACE ethernet chip have an Apple AUI port (small 15-pin connector), 2521da177e4SLinus Torvalds instead of an 8-pin RJ45 connector for twisted-pair ethernet. Say 2531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Y here if you have such a machine. If unsure, say N. 2541da177e4SLinus Torvalds The driver will default to AAUI on ANS anyway, and if you use it as 2551da177e4SLinus Torvalds a module, you can provide the port_aaui=0|1 to force the driver. 2561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2571da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BMAC 2581da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BMAC (G3 ethernet) support" 259d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 2601da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2611da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y for support of BMAC Ethernet interfaces. These are used on G3 2631da177e4SLinus Torvalds computers. 2641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called bmac. 2671da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ARIADNE 2691da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ariadne support" 270d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 2711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Village Tronic Ariadne Ethernet adapter, say Y. 2731da177e4SLinus Torvalds Otherwise, say N. 2741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2751da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ariadne. 2771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig A2065 2791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "A2065 support" 280d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 2811da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2821da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Commodore A2065 Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 2841da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 2851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2871da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called a2065. 2881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HYDRA 2901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Hydra support" 291d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 2921da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 2931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Hydra Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 2951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2961da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2971da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hydra. 2981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZORRO8390 3001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Zorro NS8390-based Ethernet support" 301d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ZORRO 3021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3041da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for Zorro Ethernet cards using an NS8390-compatible 3051da177e4SLinus Torvalds chipset, like the Village Tronic Ariadne II and the Individual 3061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Computers X-Surf Ethernet cards. If you have such a card, say Y. 3071da177e4SLinus Torvalds Otherwise, say N. 3081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3091da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3101da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called zorro8390. 3111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APNE 3131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PCMCIA NE2000 support" 314d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on AMIGA_PCMCIA 3151da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCMCIA NE2000 compatible adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 3181da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 3191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3201da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 3211da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called apne. 3221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APOLLO_ELPLUS 3241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apollo 3c505 support" 325d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on APOLLO 3261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y or M here if your Apollo has a 3Com 3c505 ISA Ethernet card. 3281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you don't have one made for Apollos, you can use one from a PC, 3291da177e4SLinus Torvalds except that your Apollo won't be able to boot from it (because the 3301da177e4SLinus Torvalds code in the ROM will be for a PC). 3311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MAC8390 3331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Macintosh NS 8390 based ethernet cards" 334d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3351da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3361da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3371da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to include a driver to support Nubus or LC-PDS 3381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y 3391da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3401da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MAC89x0 3431da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Macintosh CS89x0 based ethernet cards" 344d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3451da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 3471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Nubus or LC-PDS network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and 3481da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3511da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 3521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. This module will 3531da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called mac89x0. 3541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACSONIC 3561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Macintosh SONIC based ethernet (onboard, NuBus, LC, CS)" 357d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3581da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 3591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for NatSemi SONIC based Ethernet devices. This includes 3601da177e4SLinus Torvalds the onboard Ethernet in many Quadras as well as some LC-PDS, 3611da177e4SLinus Torvalds a few Nubus and all known Comm Slot Ethernet cards. If you have 3621da177e4SLinus Torvalds one of these say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3651da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 3661da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. This module will 3671da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called macsonic. 3681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MACMACE 3708b6aaab8SFinn Thain bool "Macintosh (AV) onboard MACE ethernet" 371d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MAC 3721da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the onboard AMD 79C940 MACE Ethernet controller used in 3751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the 660AV and 840AV Macintosh. If you have one of these Macintoshes 3761da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 3771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 3781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MVME147_NET 3801da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MVME147 (Lance) Ethernet support" 381d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MVME147 3821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 3831da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the on-board Ethernet interface on the Motorola MVME147 3851da177e4SLinus Torvalds single-board computer. Say Y here to include the 3861da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver for this chip in your kernel. 3871da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 3881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3891da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MVME16x_NET 3901da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MVME16x Ethernet support" 391d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MVME16x 3921da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 3931da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on the Motorola 3941da177e4SLinus Torvalds MVME162, 166, 167, 172 and 177 boards. Say Y here to include the 3951da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver for this chip in your kernel. 3961da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 3971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3981da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig BVME6000_NET 3991da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "BVME6000 Ethernet support" 400d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on BVME6000 4011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on BVME4000 and 4031da177e4SLinus Torvalds BVME6000 VME boards. Say Y here to include the driver for this chip 4041da177e4SLinus Torvalds in your kernel. 4051da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 4061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ATARILANCE 4081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Atari Lance support" 409d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ATARI 4101da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4111da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y to include support for several Atari Ethernet adapters based 4121da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the AMD Lance chipset: RieblCard (with or without battery), or 4131da177e4SLinus Torvalds PAMCard VME (also the version by Rhotron, with different addresses). 4141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUN3LANCE 4161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun3/Sun3x on-board LANCE support" 417d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUN3 || SUN3X 4181da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4191da177e4SLinus Torvalds Most Sun3 and Sun3x motherboards (including the 3/50, 3/60 and 3/80) 4201da177e4SLinus Torvalds featured an AMD Lance 10Mbit Ethernet controller on board; say Y 4211da177e4SLinus Torvalds here to compile in the Linux driver for this and enable Ethernet. 4221da177e4SLinus Torvalds General Linux information on the Sun 3 and 3x series (now 4231da177e4SLinus Torvalds discontinued) is at 4241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/tech68k/sun3.html>. 4251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4261da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you're not building a kernel for a Sun 3, say N. 4271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUN3_82586 4299a482206SAl Viro bool "Sun3 on-board Intel 82586 support" 430d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUN3 4311da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver enables support for the on-board Intel 82586 based 4331da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet adapter found on Sun 3/1xx and 3/2xx motherboards. Note 4341da177e4SLinus Torvalds that this driver does not support 82586-based adapters on additional 4351da177e4SLinus Torvalds VME boards. 4361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLANCE 4381da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HP on-board LANCE support" 439d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on DIO 4401da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use the builtin "LANCE" Ethernet controller on an 4431da177e4SLinus Torvalds HP300 machine, say Y here. 4441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LASI_82596 4461da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Lasi ethernet" 447d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on GSC 4481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4496de187eeSMatthew Wilcox Say Y here to support the builtin Intel 82596 ethernet controller 4506de187eeSMatthew Wilcox found in Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC machines with 10Mbit ethernet. 4511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 452f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerferconfig SNI_82596 453f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer tristate "SNI RM ethernet" 454f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer depends on NET_ETHERNET && SNI_RM 455f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer help 456f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer Say Y here to support the on-board Intel 82596 ethernet controller 457f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer built into SNI RM machines. 458f2ec8030SThomas Bogendoerfer 4591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MIPS_JAZZ_SONIC 4601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MIPS JAZZ onboard SONIC Ethernet support" 461d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MACH_JAZZ 4621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is the driver for the onboard card of MIPS Magnum 4000, 4641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Acer PICA, Olivetti M700-10 and a few other identical OEM systems. 4651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MIPS_AU1X00_ENET 4671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "MIPS AU1000 Ethernet support" 468d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SOC_AU1X00 4690638dec0SHerbert Valerio Riedel select PHYLIB 4701da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4721da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an Alchemy Semi AU1X00 based system 4731da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y. Otherwise, say N. 4741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4751da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_SB1250_MAC 4761da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SB1250 Ethernet support" 477d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC 4781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 4791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGI_IOC3_ETH 4801da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "SGI IOC3 Ethernet" 481d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI && SGI_IP27 4821da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 4831da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 4841da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 4851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 4861da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 4871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 4881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 489dcbf8477SRalf Baechleconfig MIPS_SIM_NET 4901e2b980fSRalf Baechle tristate "MIPS simulator Network device" 491d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MIPS_SIM 492dcbf8477SRalf Baechle help 493dcbf8477SRalf Baechle The MIPSNET device is a simple Ethernet network device which is 494dcbf8477SRalf Baechle emulated by the MIPS Simulator. 495dcbf8477SRalf Baechle If you are not using a MIPSsim or are unsure, say N. 496dcbf8477SRalf Baechle 4971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGI_O2MACE_ETH 4981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SGI O2 MACE Fast Ethernet support" 499d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SGI_IP32=y 5001da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5011da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig STNIC 5021da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "National DP83902AV support" 503d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SUPERH 5041da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5051da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for cards based on the National Semiconductor DP83902AV 5071da177e4SLinus Torvalds ST-NIC Serial Network Interface Controller for Twisted Pair. This 5081da177e4SLinus Torvalds is a 10Mbit/sec Ethernet controller. Product overview and specs at 5091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83902A.html>. 5101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5111da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 5121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5131da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNLANCE 5141da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun LANCE support" 515d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS 5161da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5171da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5181da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "le" interface present on all 32-bit Sparc 5191da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems, on some older Ultra systems and as an Sbus option. These 5201da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards are based on the AMD Lance chipset, which is better known 5211da177e4SLinus Torvalds via the NE2100 cards. 5221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5241da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunlance. 5251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HAPPYMEAL 5271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support" 528d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS || PCI 5291da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5311da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "hme" interface present on most Ultra 5321da177e4SLinus Torvalds systems and as an option on older Sbus systems. This driver supports 5331da177e4SLinus Torvalds both PCI and Sbus devices. This driver also supports the "qfe" quad 5341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 100baseT device available in both PCI and Sbus configurations. 5351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5361da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunhme. 5381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNBMAC 5401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun BigMAC 10/100baseT support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 541d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS && EXPERIMENTAL 5421da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5431da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5441da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "be" interface available as an Sbus option. 5451da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is Sun's older 100baseT Ethernet device. 5461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5471da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5481da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunbmac. 5491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNQE 5511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun QuadEthernet support" 552d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SBUS 5531da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5551da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the "qe" 10baseT Ethernet device, available as 5561da177e4SLinus Torvalds an Sbus option. Note that this is not the same as Quad FastEthernet 5571da177e4SLinus Torvalds "qfe" which is supported by the Happy Meal driver instead. 5581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5591da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 5601da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sunqe. 5611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5621da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNGEM 5631da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sun GEM support" 564d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI 5651da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 5661da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5671da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the Sun GEM chip, aka Sun GigabitEthernet/P 2.0. See also 5681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-3985-10.pdf>. 5691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5701f26dac3SDavid S. Millerconfig CASSINI 5711f26dac3SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Cassini support" 572d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PCI 5731f26dac3SDavid S. Miller select CRC32 5741f26dac3SDavid S. Miller help 5751f26dac3SDavid S. Miller Support for the Sun Cassini chip, aka Sun GigaSwift Ethernet. See also 5761f26dac3SDavid S. Miller <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/817-4341-10.pdf> 5771f26dac3SDavid S. Miller 5784c521e42SDavid S. Millerconfig SUNVNET 5794c521e42SDavid S. Miller tristate "Sun Virtual Network support" 5804c521e42SDavid S. Miller depends on SUN_LDOMS 5814c521e42SDavid S. Miller help 5824c521e42SDavid S. Miller Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains. 5834c521e42SDavid S. Miller 5841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_3COM 5851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "3COM cards" 586d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || MCA || PCI 5871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 5881da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 5891da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 5901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 5911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5921da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 5931da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 5941da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about 3COM cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 5951da177e4SLinus Torvalds your specific card in the following questions. 5961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 5971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL1 5981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c501 \"EtherLink\" support" 5991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 6001da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6011da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6021da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6031da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Also, consider buying a 6041da177e4SLinus Torvalds new card, since the 3c501 is slow, broken, and obsolete: you will 6051da177e4SLinus Torvalds have problems. Some people suggest to ping ("man ping") a nearby 6061da177e4SLinus Torvalds machine every minute ("man cron") when using this card. 6071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6101da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c501. 6111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL2 6131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c503 \"EtherLink II\" support" 6141da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 6151da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 6161da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6181da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6201da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6211da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. 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 6341da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6361da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c505. 6371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6381da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL16 6391da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c507 \"EtherLink 16\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6401da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 6411da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6421da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6431da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6461da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6471da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6481da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c507. 6491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6501da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EL3 6511da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c509/3c529 (MCA)/3c579 \"EtherLink III\" support" 6521da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA || MCA) 6531da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 6541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com 6551da177e4SLinus Torvalds EtherLinkIII series, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available 6561da177e4SLinus Torvalds from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your card is not working you may need to use the DOS 6591da177e4SLinus Torvalds setup disk to disable Plug & Play mode, and to select the default 6601da177e4SLinus Torvalds media type. 6611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6621da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c509. 6651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 3C515 6671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c515 ISA \"Fast EtherLink\"" 668a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA) && ISA_DMA_API 6691da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a 3Com ISA EtherLink XL "Corkscrew" 3c515 Fast Ethernet 6711da177e4SLinus Torvalds network card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6741da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6761da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c515. 6771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ELMC 6791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c523 \"EtherLink/MC\" support" 6801da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA_LEGACY 6811da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6831da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6841da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6861da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 6881da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c523. 6891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6901da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ELMC_II 6911da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c527 \"EtherLink/MC 32\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 6921da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA && MCA_LEGACY 6931da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 6941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 6951da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 6961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 6971da177e4SLinus Torvalds 6981da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 6991da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 7001da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 3c527. 7011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VORTEX 7031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) \"Vortex/Boomerang\" support" 7041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (PCI || EISA) 7051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 7061da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 70747c51431SJon Mason This option enables driver support for a large number of 10Mbps and 70847c51431SJon Mason 10/100Mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: 7091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7101da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Vortex" (Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597) EISA and PCI 7111da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905) PCI 7121da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Cyclone" (3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656) PCI and Cardbus 7131da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Tornado" (3c905) PCI 7141da177e4SLinus Torvalds "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO) PCI 7151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7161da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have such a card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 7171da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More 7181da177e4SLinus Torvalds specific information is in 7191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/vortex.txt> and in the comments at 7201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the beginning of <file:drivers/net/3c59x.c>. 7211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this support as a module, choose M here and read 7231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. 7241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7251da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TYPHOON 7261da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "3cr990 series \"Typhoon\" support" 7271da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && PCI 7281da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7291da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 7301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This option enables driver support for the 3cr990 series of cards: 7311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3C990-TX, 3CR990-TX-95, 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-FX-95, 3CR990-FX-97, 7331da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3CR990SVR, 3CR990SVR95, 3CR990SVR97, 3CR990-FX-95 Server, 7341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3CR990-FX-97 Server, 3C990B-TX-M, 3C990BSVR 7351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7361da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7371da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7401da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 7411da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 7421da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called typhoon. 7431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LANCE 7451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support" 746d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API 7471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some LinkSys cards are 7511da177e4SLinus Torvalds of this type. 7521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7531da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 7541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called lance. This is recommended. 7551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_SMC 7571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Western Digital/SMC cards" 758d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || MCA || EISA || MAC 7591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 7611da177e4SLinus Torvalds and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 7651da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 7661da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about Western Digital cards. If you say Y, you will be 7671da177e4SLinus Torvalds asked for your specific card in the following questions. 7681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig WD80x3 7701da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "WD80*3 support" 7711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 7721da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7731da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7741da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 7751da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 7761da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7781da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 7791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 7801da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called wd. 7811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7821da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRAMCA 7831da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra MCA support" 7841da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && MCA 7851da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 7871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type and are running 7881da177e4SLinus Torvalds an MCA based system (PS/2), say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 7891da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 7901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7911da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 7921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 7931da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-mca. 7941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 7951da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRA 7961da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra support" 7971da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 7981da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 7991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 8011da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 8021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8031da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Important: There have been many reports that, with some motherboards 8051da177e4SLinus Torvalds mixing an SMC Ultra and an Adaptec AHA154x SCSI card (or compatible, 8061da177e4SLinus Torvalds such as some BusLogic models) causes corruption problems with many 8071da177e4SLinus Torvalds operating systems. The Linux smc-ultra driver has a work-around for 8081da177e4SLinus Torvalds this but keep it in mind if you have such a SCSI card and have 8091da177e4SLinus Torvalds problems. 8101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 8121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 8131da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-ultra. 8141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ULTRA32 8161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC Ultra32 EISA support" 8171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && EISA 8181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 8191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 8201da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 8211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 8221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8241da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 8251da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 8261da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc-ultra32. 8271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 828e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC 829e190d6b1SBryan Wu tristate "Blackfin 536/537 on-chip mac support" 830e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on NET_ETHERNET && (BF537 || BF536) && (!BF537_PORT_H) 831e190d6b1SBryan Wu select CRC32 832e190d6b1SBryan Wu select BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 if DMA_UNCACHED_NONE 833e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 834e190d6b1SBryan Wu This is the driver for blackfin on-chip mac device. Say Y if you want it 835e190d6b1SBryan Wu compiled into the kernel. This driver is also available as a module 836e190d6b1SBryan Wu ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel 837e190d6b1SBryan Wu whenever you want). The module will be called bfin_mac. 838e190d6b1SBryan Wu 839e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 840e190d6b1SBryan Wu bool "Use L1 memory for rx/tx packets" 841e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC && BF537 842e190d6b1SBryan Wu default y 843e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 844e190d6b1SBryan Wu To get maximum network performace, you should use L1 memory as rx/tx buffers. 845e190d6b1SBryan Wu Say N here if you want to reserve L1 memory for other uses. 846e190d6b1SBryan Wu 847e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_TX_DESC_NUM 848e190d6b1SBryan Wu int "Number of transmit buffer packets" 849e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC 850e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 6 10 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 851e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 10 100 852e190d6b1SBryan Wu default "10" 853e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 854e190d6b1SBryan Wu Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 855e190d6b1SBryan Wu 856e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_RX_DESC_NUM 857e190d6b1SBryan Wu int "Number of receive buffer packets" 858e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC 859e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 20 100 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 860e190d6b1SBryan Wu range 20 800 861e190d6b1SBryan Wu default "20" 862e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 863e190d6b1SBryan Wu Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 864e190d6b1SBryan Wu 865e190d6b1SBryan Wuconfig BFIN_MAC_RMII 866e190d6b1SBryan Wu bool "RMII PHY Interface (EXPERIMENTAL)" 867e190d6b1SBryan Wu depends on BFIN_MAC && EXPERIMENTAL 868e190d6b1SBryan Wu default n 869e190d6b1SBryan Wu help 870e190d6b1SBryan Wu Use Reduced PHY MII Interface 871e190d6b1SBryan Wu 8721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SMC9194 8731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC 9194 support" 8741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && (ISA || MAC && BROKEN) 8751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 8761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 8771da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is support for the SMC9xxx based Ethernet cards. Choose this 8781da177e4SLinus Torvalds option if you have a DELL laptop with the docking station, or 8791da177e4SLinus Torvalds another SMC9192/9194 based chipset. Say Y if you want it compiled 8801da177e4SLinus Torvalds into the kernel, and read the file 8811da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 8821da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 8831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 8841da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 8851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 8861da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called smc9194. 8871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 888d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtconfig SMC91X 889d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt tristate "SMC 91C9x/91C1xxx support" 890d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select CRC32 891d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt select MII 892d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ARM || REDWOOD_5 || REDWOOD_6 || M32R || SUPERH || SOC_AU1X00 || BFIN 893d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt help 894d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This is a driver for SMC's 91x series of Ethernet chipsets, 895d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt including the SMC91C94 and the SMC91C111. Say Y if you want it 896d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt compiled into the kernel, and read the file 897d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 898d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 899d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 900d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be 901d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 902d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt The module will be called smc91x. If you want to compile it as a 903d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt> 904d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt as well as <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. 905d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 90692aa674dSSascha Hauerconfig NET_NETX 90792aa674dSSascha Hauer tristate "NetX Ethernet support" 90892aa674dSSascha Hauer select MII 909d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ARCH_NETX 91092aa674dSSascha Hauer help 91192aa674dSSascha Hauer This is support for the Hilscher netX builtin Ethernet ports 91292aa674dSSascha Hauer 91392aa674dSSascha Hauer To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 91492aa674dSSascha Hauer <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 91592aa674dSSascha Hauer will be called netx-eth. 91692aa674dSSascha Hauer 917a1365275SSascha Hauerconfig DM9000 918a1365275SSascha Hauer tristate "DM9000 support" 919f40d24d9SAlex Landau depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || MIPS 920a1365275SSascha Hauer select CRC32 921a1365275SSascha Hauer select MII 922a1365275SSascha Hauer ---help--- 923a1365275SSascha Hauer Support for DM9000 chipset. 924a1365275SSascha Hauer 925a1365275SSascha Hauer To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 926a1365275SSascha Hauer <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 927a1365275SSascha Hauer called dm9000. 928a1365275SSascha Hauer 9290a0c72c9SDustin McIntireconfig SMC911X 9300a0c72c9SDustin McIntire tristate "SMSC LAN911[5678] support" 9310a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select CRC32 9320a0c72c9SDustin McIntire select MII 933d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ARCH_PXA 9340a0c72c9SDustin McIntire help 9350a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x series of Ethernet chipsets 9360a0c72c9SDustin McIntire including the new LAN9115, LAN9116, LAN9117, and LAN9118. 9370a0c72c9SDustin McIntire Say Y if you want it compiled into the kernel, 9380a0c72c9SDustin McIntire and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9390a0c72c9SDustin McIntire <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 9400a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9410a0c72c9SDustin McIntire This driver is also available as a module. The module will be 9420a0c72c9SDustin McIntire called smc911x. If you want to compile it as a module, say M 94339f5fb30SAlexander E. Patrakov here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt> 9440a0c72c9SDustin McIntire 9451da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_VENDOR_RACAL 9461da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards" 947d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 9481da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9491da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, such 9501da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NI5010, NI5210 or NI6210, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 9511da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9531da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 9541da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 9551da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about NI cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 9561da177e4SLinus Torvalds your specific card in the following questions. 9571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI5010 9591da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5010 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 9601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN_ON_SMP 9611da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 9621da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9631da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this is still 9651da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental code. 9661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9671da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 9681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 9691da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni5010. 9701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI52 9721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI5210 support" 9731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA 9741da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9761da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9791da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 9801da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 9811da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni52. 9821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NI65 9841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NI6510 support" 985a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 9861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 9871da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 9881da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 9891da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 9901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9911da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 9921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 9931da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ni65. 9941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9951da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig" 9961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 9971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AT1700 9981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT1700/1720 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 999d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on (ISA || MCA_LEGACY) && EXPERIMENTAL 10001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10011da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10021da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10031da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10041da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10061da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10071da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10081da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called at1700. 10091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEPCA 10111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support" 1012d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || MCA 10131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10141da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10161da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 10181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:drivers/net/depca.c>. 10191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10201da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10211da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10221da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called depca. 10231da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10241da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HP100 10251da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support" 1026d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 10271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10321da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10331da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp100. 10351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_ISA 10371da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Other ISA cards" 1038d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA 10391da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your network (Ethernet) card hasn't been mentioned yet and its 10411da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus system (that's the way the cards talks to the other components 10421da177e4SLinus Torvalds of your computer) is ISA (as opposed to EISA, VLB or PCI), say Y. 10431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Make sure you know the name of your card. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 10441da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 10471da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 10491da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 10501da177e4SLinus Torvalds the remaining ISA network card questions. If you say Y, you will be 10511da177e4SLinus Torvalds asked for your specific card in the following questions. 10521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E2100 10541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Cabletron E21xx support" 10551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 10581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 10591da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10601da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10621da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e2100. 10651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EWRK3 10671da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support" 10681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10691da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 10701da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the DE203, DE204 and DE205 network (Ethernet) 10721da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. If this is for you, say Y and read 10731da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt> in the kernel source as 10741da177e4SLinus Torvalds well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10751da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 10761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10771da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10781da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10791da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ewrk3. 10801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS 10821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpress 16 support" 10831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 10851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an EtherExpress16 network (Ethernet) card, say Y and 10861da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 10871da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the Intel 10881da177e4SLinus Torvalds EtherExpress16 card used to be regarded as a very poor choice 10891da177e4SLinus Torvalds because the driver was very unreliable. We now have a new driver 10901da177e4SLinus Torvalds that should do better. 10911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10921da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 10931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 10941da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eexpress. 10951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 10961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEXPRESS_PRO 10971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro support/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support" 10981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 10991da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 11001da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y. This 110147c51431SJon Mason driver supports Intel i82595{FX,TX} based boards. Note however 11021da177e4SLinus Torvalds that the EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet card has its own separate 11031da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. Please read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11041da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11061da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11071da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11081da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro. 11091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN_PLUS 11111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support" 11121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11131da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11141da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11151da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11161da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11171da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11191da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11201da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11211da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp-plus. 11221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HPLAN 11241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support" 11251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11261da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11281da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11291da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11301da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11321da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11331da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11341da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called hp. 11351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11361da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LP486E 11371da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "LP486E on board Ethernet" 11381da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11391da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11401da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the 82596-based on-board Ethernet controller 11411da177e4SLinus Torvalds for the Panther motherboard, which is one of the two shipped in the 11421da177e4SLinus Torvalds Intel Professional Workstation. 11431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ETH16I 11451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support" 11461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA 11471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11481da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11491da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11501da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11511da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11521da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11531da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11541da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eth16i. 11551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2000 11571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000/NE1000 support" 115857e386ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_ISA || (Q40 && m) || M32R || TOSHIBA_RBTX4927 || TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 11591da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 11601da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 11611da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 11621da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Many Ethernet cards 11641da177e4SLinus Torvalds without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000. 11651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11661da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI 116728beaf65SJesper Juhl NE2000 and clone support" under "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board 116828beaf65SJesper Juhl controllers" below. If you have a NE2000 card and are running on 11691da177e4SLinus Torvalds an MCA system (a bus system used on some IBM PS/2 computers and 11701da177e4SLinus Torvalds laptops), say N here and Y to "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support", 11711da177e4SLinus Torvalds below. 11721da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11731da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11741da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11751da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne. 11761da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ZNET 11781da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Zenith Z-Note support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1179a5532606SAl Viro depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && ISA_DMA_API 11801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11811da177e4SLinus Torvalds The Zenith Z-Note notebook computer has a built-in network 11821da177e4SLinus Torvalds (Ethernet) card, and this is the Linux driver for it. Note that the 11831da177e4SLinus Torvalds IBM Thinkpad 300 is compatible with the Z-Note and is also supported 11841da177e4SLinus Torvalds by this driver. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11851da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SEEQ8005 11881da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SEEQ8005 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 11891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 11901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 11911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the SEEQ 8005 network (Ethernet) card. If this 11921da177e4SLinus Torvalds is for you, read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 11931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 11941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11951da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 11961da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 11971da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called seeq8005. 11981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 11991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2_MCA 12001da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support" 1201d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MCA_LEGACY 12021da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 12031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 12041da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 12051da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 12061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 12071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 12091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 12101da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2. 12111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMLANA 12131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Adapter/A support" 1214d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY 12151da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a Micro Channel Ethernet adapter. You need to set 12171da177e4SLinus Torvalds CONFIG_MCA to use this driver. It is both available as an in-kernel 12181da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver and as a module. 12191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12201da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 12211da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The only 12221da177e4SLinus Torvalds currently supported card is the IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. It 12231da177e4SLinus Torvalds will both support 16K and 32K memory windows, however a 32K window 12241da177e4SLinus Torvalds gives a better security against packet losses. Usage of multiple 12251da177e4SLinus Torvalds boards with this driver should be possible, but has not been tested 12261da177e4SLinus Torvalds up to now due to lack of hardware. 12271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12281da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBMVETH 12291da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "IBM LAN Virtual Ethernet support" 1230d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PPC_PSERIES 12311da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 12321da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports virtual ethernet adapters on newer IBM iSeries 12331da177e4SLinus Torvalds and pSeries systems. 12341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12351da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 12361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will 12371da177e4SLinus Torvalds be called ibmveth. 12381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBM_EMAC 124037448f7dSEugene Surovegin tristate "PowerPC 4xx on-chip Ethernet support" 124186affd5aSDavid Gibson depends on 4xx && !PPC_MERGE 124237448f7dSEugene Surovegin help 124337448f7dSEugene Surovegin This driver supports the PowerPC 4xx EMAC family of on-chip 12441da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet controllers. 12451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBM_EMAC_RXB 12471da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Number of receive buffers" 12481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IBM_EMAC 124937448f7dSEugene Surovegin default "128" 12501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 12511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IBM_EMAC_TXB 12521da177e4SLinus Torvalds int "Number of transmit buffers" 12531da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IBM_EMAC 125437448f7dSEugene Surovegin default "64" 12551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 125637448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_POLL_WEIGHT 125737448f7dSEugene Surovegin int "MAL NAPI polling weight" 12581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IBM_EMAC 125937448f7dSEugene Surovegin default "32" 12601da177e4SLinus Torvalds 126137448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_RX_COPY_THRESHOLD 126237448f7dSEugene Surovegin int "RX skb copy threshold (bytes)" 126337448f7dSEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC 126437448f7dSEugene Surovegin default "256" 126537448f7dSEugene Surovegin 126637448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_RX_SKB_HEADROOM 126737448f7dSEugene Surovegin int "Additional RX skb headroom (bytes)" 12681da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IBM_EMAC 12691da177e4SLinus Torvalds default "0" 127037448f7dSEugene Surovegin help 127137448f7dSEugene Surovegin Additional receive skb headroom. Note, that driver 127237448f7dSEugene Surovegin will always reserve at least 2 bytes to make IP header 127347c51431SJon Mason aligned, so usually there is no need to add any additional 127437448f7dSEugene Surovegin headroom. 127537448f7dSEugene Surovegin 127637448f7dSEugene Surovegin If unsure, set to 0. 127737448f7dSEugene Surovegin 127837448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_PHY_RX_CLK_FIX 127937448f7dSEugene Surovegin bool "PHY Rx clock workaround" 12801b195916SEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC && (405EP || 440GX || 440EP || 440GR) 128137448f7dSEugene Surovegin help 128237448f7dSEugene Surovegin Enable this if EMAC attached to a PHY which doesn't generate 128337448f7dSEugene Surovegin RX clock if there is no link, if this is the case, you will 128437448f7dSEugene Surovegin see "TX disable timeout" or "RX disable timeout" in the system 128537448f7dSEugene Surovegin log. 128637448f7dSEugene Surovegin 128737448f7dSEugene Surovegin If unsure, say N. 128837448f7dSEugene Surovegin 128937448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_DEBUG 129037448f7dSEugene Surovegin bool "Debugging" 129137448f7dSEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC 129237448f7dSEugene Surovegin default n 129337448f7dSEugene Surovegin 129437448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_ZMII 129537448f7dSEugene Surovegin bool 129637448f7dSEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC && (NP405H || NP405L || 44x) 129737448f7dSEugene Surovegin default y 129837448f7dSEugene Surovegin 129937448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_RGMII 130037448f7dSEugene Surovegin bool 130137448f7dSEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC && 440GX 130237448f7dSEugene Surovegin default y 130337448f7dSEugene Surovegin 130437448f7dSEugene Suroveginconfig IBM_EMAC_TAH 130537448f7dSEugene Surovegin bool 130637448f7dSEugene Surovegin depends on IBM_EMAC && 440GX 130737448f7dSEugene Surovegin default y 13081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_PCI 13101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" 1311d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 13121da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13131da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is another class of network cards which attach directly to the 13141da177e4SLinus Torvalds bus. If you have one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 13151da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13171da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 13181da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 13191da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network cards. If you say Y, you 13201da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific card in the following questions. If 13211da177e4SLinus Torvalds you are unsure, say Y. 13221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PCNET32 13241da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD PCnet32 PCI support" 13251da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13261da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13271da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13281da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13291da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCnet32 or PCnetPCI based network (Ethernet) card, 13301da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13331da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 13341da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 13351da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called pcnet32. 13361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13377de745e5SDon Fryconfig PCNET32_NAPI 1338659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net bool "Use RX polling (NAPI)" 1339659dd835Spcnet32@verizon.net depends on PCNET32 13407de745e5SDon Fry help 13417de745e5SDon Fry NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 13427de745e5SDon Fry when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 13437de745e5SDon Fry still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 13447de745e5SDon Fry 13457de745e5SDon Fry If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 13467de745e5SDon Fry deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 13477de745e5SDon Fry then say Y here. 13487de745e5SDon Fry 13497de745e5SDon Fry See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 13507de745e5SDon Fry information. 13517de745e5SDon Fry 13527de745e5SDon Fry If in doubt, say N. 13537de745e5SDon Fry 13541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111_ETH 13551da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AMD 8111 (new PCI lance) support" 13561da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13571da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13581da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13601da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an AMD 8111-based PCI lance ethernet card, 13611da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 13621da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 13631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13641da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 13651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 13661da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called amd8111e. 1367d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt 13681da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AMD8111E_NAPI 13691da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Enable NAPI support" 13701da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on AMD8111_ETH 13711da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13721da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 13731da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 13741da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 13751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13761da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 13771da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 13781da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 13791da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13801da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 13811da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 13821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13831da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 13841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE 13861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support" 13871da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 13881da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 13891da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 13901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 13911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Adaptec Starfire (or DuraLAN) PCI network 13921da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The DuraLAN chip is used on the 64 bit PCI boards from 13931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adaptec e.g. the ANA-6922A. The older 32 bit boards use the tulip 13941da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver. 13951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13961da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 13971da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called starfire. This is recommended. 13981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 13991da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ADAPTEC_STARFIRE_NAPI 14001da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14011da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ADAPTEC_STARFIRE && EXPERIMENTAL 14021da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14031da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 14041da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 14051da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 14061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 14081da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 14091da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 14101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14111da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 14121da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 14131da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14141da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 14151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig AC3200 14171da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 14181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || EISA) && EXPERIMENTAL 14191da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 14201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 14221da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14251da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 14261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 14271da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ac3200. 14281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig APRICOT 14301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet" 14311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && ISA 14321da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14331da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 14341da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14351da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 14381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 14391da177e4SLinus Torvalds called apricot. 14401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14411da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig B44 1442fc13dcaeSGary Zambrano tristate "Broadcom 4400 ethernet support" 1443fc13dcaeSGary Zambrano depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14441da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 14451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14461da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 14471da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 14511da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 14521da177e4SLinus Torvalds called b44. 14531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14541da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FORCEDETH 145582770086SAdrian Bunk tristate "nForce Ethernet support" 145682770086SAdrian Bunk depends on NET_PCI && PCI 14571da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 14581da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 14591da177e4SLinus Torvalds read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14601da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 14611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14621da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 14631da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 14641da177e4SLinus Torvalds called forcedeth. 14651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1466e27cdba5SStephen Hemmingerconfig FORCEDETH_NAPI 1467e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger bool "Use Rx and Tx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1468e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger depends on FORCEDETH && EXPERIMENTAL 1469e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger help 1470e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1471e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 1472e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 1473e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1474e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1475e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1476e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger then say Y here. 1477e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1478e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 1479e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger information. 1480e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger 1481e27cdba5SStephen Hemminger If in doubt, say N. 14821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig CS89x0 14841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "CS89x0 support" 14859c878967SDeepak Saxena depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || MACH_IXDP2351 || ARCH_IXDP2X01 || ARCH_PNX010X) 14861da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 14871da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 14881da177e4SLinus Torvalds network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read the 14891da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 14901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 14911da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt>. 14921da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14931da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 14941da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 1495fd85d765SJean Delvare called cs89x0. 14961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 14971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TC35815 14981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support" 1499eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS 1500eea221ceSAtsushi Nemoto select MII 15011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DGRS 15031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Digi Intl. RightSwitch SE-X support" 15041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (PCI || EISA) 15051da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15061da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is support for the Digi International RightSwitch series of 15071da177e4SLinus Torvalds PCI/EISA Ethernet switch cards. These include the SE-4 and the SE-6 15081da177e4SLinus Torvalds models. If you have a network card of this type, say Y and read the 15091da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15101da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More specific 15111da177e4SLinus Torvalds information is contained in <file:Documentation/networking/dgrs.txt>. 15121da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15131da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 15141da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 15151da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called dgrs. 15161da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15171da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EEPRO100 15181da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)" 15191da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15201da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15211da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15221da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI network (Ethernet) 15231da177e4SLinus Torvalds card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15241da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15261da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 15271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 15281da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called eepro100. 15291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E100 15321da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support" 15331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15341da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15351da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15361da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/100 family of adapters. 15371da177e4SLinus Torvalds To verify that your adapter is supported, find the board ID number 15381da177e4SLinus Torvalds on the adapter. Look for a label that has a barcode and a number 15391da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the format 123456-001 (six digits hyphen three digits). 15401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Use the above information and the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 15421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15431da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 15441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15451da177e4SLinus Torvalds to identify the adapter. 15461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15471da177e4SLinus Torvalds For the latest Intel PRO/100 network driver for Linux, see: 15481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15491da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp> 15501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15511da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 15521da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e100.txt>. 15531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15541da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 15551da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 15561da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e100. 15571da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15581da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LNE390 15591da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 15601da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 15611da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 15641da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 15651da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 15661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15671da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 15681da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 15691da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called lne390. 15701da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15711da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEALNX 15721da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support" 15731da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15741da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 15761da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here to support the Mysom MTD-800 family of PCI-based Ethernet 15781da177e4SLinus Torvalds cards. Specifications and data at 15791da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.myson.com.hk/mtd/datasheet/>. 15801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NATSEMI 15821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" 15831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15841da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15851da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 15861da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the National Semiconductor DP83810 series, 15871da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is used in cards from PureData, NetGear, Linksys 15881da177e4SLinus Torvalds and others, including the 83815 chip. 15891da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 15901da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html>. 15911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE2K_PCI 15931da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)" 15941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 15951da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 15961da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 15971da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work 15981da177e4SLinus Torvalds with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000 15991da177e4SLinus Torvalds support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card, 16001da177e4SLinus Torvalds say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16011da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16031da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also works for the following NE2000 clone cards: 16041da177e4SLinus Torvalds RealTek RTL-8029 Winbond 89C940 Compex RL2000 KTI ET32P2 16051da177e4SLinus Torvalds NetVin NV5000SC Via 86C926 SureCom NE34 Winbond 16061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Holtek HT80232 Holtek HT80229 16071da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16081da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 16091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 16101da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne2k-pci. 16111da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16121da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE3210 16131da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Novell/Eagle/Microdyne NE3210 EISA support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16141da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 16151da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16161da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16171da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 16181da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this driver 16201da177e4SLinus Torvalds will NOT WORK for NE3200 cards as they are completely different. 16211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16221da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 16231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 16241da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ne3210. 16251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ES3210 16271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Racal-Interlan EISA ES3210 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 16291da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16301da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16311da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 16321da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16331da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16351da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 16361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 16371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called es3210. 16381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139CP 16401da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 16411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 16421da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16431da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16441da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16451da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 16461da177e4SLinus Torvalds the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read 16471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 16481da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16501da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 16511da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139cp. This is recommended. 16521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO 1654f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk tristate "RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 16551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 16561da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 16571da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 16581da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 16591da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1660f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and 1661f04e3f09SAdrian Bunk read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 16621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16631da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 16641da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called 8139too. This is recommended. 16651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16661da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_PIO 16671da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use PIO instead of MMIO" 16681da177e4SLinus Torvalds default y 16691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 16701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16711da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use programmed I/O ports (PIO) instead 16721da177e4SLinus Torvalds of PCI shared memory (MMIO). This can possibly solve some problems 16731da177e4SLinus Torvalds in case your mainboard has memory consistency issues. If unsure, 16741da177e4SLinus Torvalds say N. 16751da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16761da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER 16771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K (automatic channel equalization)" 16781da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 16791da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16801da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implements a function which might come in handy in case you 16811da177e4SLinus Torvalds are using low quality on long cabling. It is required for RealTek 16821da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8139 revision K boards, and totally unused otherwise. It tries 16831da177e4SLinus Torvalds to match the transceiver to the cable characteristics. This is 16841da177e4SLinus Torvalds experimental since hardly documented by the manufacturer. 16851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 16861da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16871da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139TOO_8129 16881da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards" 16891da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 16901da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 16911da177e4SLinus Torvalds This enables support for the older and uncommon RTL-8129 and 16921da177e4SLinus Torvalds RTL-8130 chips, which support MII via an external transceiver, 16931da177e4SLinus Torvalds instead of an internal one. Disabling this option will save some 16941da177e4SLinus Torvalds memory by making the code size smaller. If unsure, say Y. 16951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 16961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 8139_OLD_RX_RESET 16971da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use older RX-reset method" 16981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on 8139TOO 16991da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17001da177e4SLinus Torvalds The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid 17011da177e4SLinus Torvalds reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new" 17021da177e4SLinus Torvalds RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you 17031da177e4SLinus Torvalds experience problems, you can enable this option to restore the 17041da177e4SLinus Torvalds old RX-reset behavior. If unsure, say N. 17051da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17061da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SIS900 17071da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 17081da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 17091da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17106da0f685SAdrian Bunk select MII 17111da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 17131da177e4SLinus Torvalds the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in 1714c3cf560eSAdrian Bunk SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. 17151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17161da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use 17171da177e4SLinus Torvalds your phone line as a network cable. 17181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17191da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 17201da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called sis900. This is recommended. 17211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17221da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig EPIC100 17231da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SMC EtherPower II" 17241da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 17251da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17261da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 17271da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17281da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the SMC EtherPower II 9432 PCI Ethernet NIC, 17291da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is based on the SMC83c17x (EPIC/100). 17301da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 17311da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/epic100.html>. 17321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17331da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE 17341da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Sundance Alta support" 17351da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 17361da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17371da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 17381da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17391da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the Sundance "Alta" chip. 17401da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information and updates are available from 17411da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html>. 17421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17431da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SUNDANCE_MMIO 17441da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 17451da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SUNDANCE 17461da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17471da177e4SLinus Torvalds Enable memory-mapped I/O for interaction with Sundance NIC registers. 17481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Do NOT enable this by default, PIO (enabled when MMIO is disabled) 17491da177e4SLinus Torvalds is known to solve bugs on certain chips. 17501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17511da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 17521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17531da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TLAN 17541da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "TI ThunderLAN support" 17551da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && (PCI || EISA) && !64BIT 17561da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 17571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a PCI Ethernet network card based on the ThunderLAN chip 17581da177e4SLinus Torvalds which is supported by this driver, say Y and read the 17591da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 17601da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 17611da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17621da177e4SLinus Torvalds Devices currently supported by this driver are Compaq Netelligent, 17631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Compaq NetFlex and Olicom cards. Please read the file 17641da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/tlan.txt> for more details. 17651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17661da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 17671da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 17681da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tlan. 17691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17701da177e4SLinus Torvalds Please email feedback to <torben.mathiasen@compaq.com>. 17711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE 17731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Rhine support" 17741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on NET_PCI && PCI 17751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 17761da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 17771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17781da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Rhine" based network card (Rhine-I (VT86C100A), 17791da177e4SLinus Torvalds Rhine-II (VT6102), or Rhine-III (VT6105)), say Y here. Rhine-type 17801da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet functions can also be found integrated on South Bridges 17811da177e4SLinus Torvalds (e.g. VT8235). 17821da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17831da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 17841da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-rhine. 17851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_RHINE_MMIO 17871da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 17881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on VIA_RHINE 17891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 17901da177e4SLinus Torvalds This instructs the driver to use PCI shared memory (MMIO) instead of 17911da177e4SLinus Torvalds programmed I/O ports (PIO). Enabling this gives an improvement in 17921da177e4SLinus Torvalds processing time in parts of the driver. 17931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 17941da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 17951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1796633949a1SRoger Luethiconfig VIA_RHINE_NAPI 1797633949a1SRoger Luethi bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 1798633949a1SRoger Luethi depends on VIA_RHINE 1799633949a1SRoger Luethi help 1800633949a1SRoger Luethi NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1801633949a1SRoger Luethi when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 1802633949a1SRoger Luethi 1803633949a1SRoger Luethi If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1804633949a1SRoger Luethi deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1805633949a1SRoger Luethi then say Y here. 1806633949a1SRoger Luethi 1807633949a1SRoger Luethi See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 1808633949a1SRoger Luethi information. 1809633949a1SRoger Luethi 18101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig LAN_SAA9730 1811f2b67c79SRalf Baechle bool "Philips SAA9730 Ethernet support" 1812f2b67c79SRalf Baechle depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS_ATLAS 18131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 18141da177e4SLinus Torvalds The SAA9730 is a combined multimedia and peripheral controller used 18151da177e4SLinus Torvalds in thin clients, Internet access terminals, and diskless 18161da177e4SLinus Torvalds workstations. 18171da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/pip/SAA9730_flyer_1>. 18181da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1819bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barrosconfig SC92031 1820bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros tristate "Silan SC92031 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1821bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1822bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros select CRC32 1823bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros ---help--- 1824bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1825bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros the Silan SC92031 chip (sometimes also called Rsltek 8139D). If you 1826bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros have one of these, say Y here. 1827bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 1828bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1829bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros will be called sc92031. This is recommended. 1830bf345707SCesar Eduardo Barros 18311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_POCKET 18321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Pocket and portable adapters" 1833d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on PARPORT 18341da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Cute little network (Ethernet) devices which attach to the parallel 18361da177e4SLinus Torvalds port ("pocket adapters"), commonly used with laptops. If you have 18371da177e4SLinus Torvalds one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 18381da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 18391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to plug a network (or some other) card into the PCMCIA 18411da177e4SLinus Torvalds (or PC-card) slot of your laptop instead (PCMCIA is the standard for 18421da177e4SLinus Torvalds credit card size extension cards used by all modern laptops), you 18431da177e4SLinus Torvalds need the pcmcia-cs package (location contained in the file 18441da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/Changes>) and you can say N here. 18451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18461da177e4SLinus Torvalds Laptop users should read the Linux Laptop home page at 18471da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or 18481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/>. 18491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18501da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 18511da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 18521da177e4SLinus Torvalds the questions about this class of network devices. If you say Y, you 18531da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be asked for your specific device in the following questions. 18541da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18551da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ATP 18561da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support" 185732fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT && X86 18581da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 18591da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18601da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 18611da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:drivers/net/atp.c> as well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, 18621da177e4SLinus Torvalds available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you 18631da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you should have 18641da177e4SLinus Torvalds said N to the "Parallel printer support", because the two drivers 18651da177e4SLinus Torvalds don't like each other. 18661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18671da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 18681da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called atp. 18691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE600 18711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE600 pocket adapter support" 187232fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 18731da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18741da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 18751da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 18761da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 18771da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 18781da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 18791da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 18801da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 18811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 18831da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de600. 18841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18851da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DE620 18861da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DE620 pocket adapter support" 188732fa2bfcSGrant Coady depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 18881da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 18891da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 18901da177e4SLinus Torvalds port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 18911da177e4SLinus Torvalds Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 18921da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 18931da177e4SLinus Torvalds this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 18941da177e4SLinus Torvalds port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 18951da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel. 18961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 18971da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 18981da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called de620. 18991da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19001da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SGISEEQ 19011da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SGI Seeq ethernet controller support" 1902d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on SGI_IP22 19031da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19041da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Seeq based Ethernet network card. This is 19051da177e4SLinus Torvalds used in many Silicon Graphics machines. 19061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19071da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DECLANCE 19081da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "DEC LANCE ethernet controller support" 1909d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on MACH_DECSTATION 19101da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 19111da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19121da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver is for the series of Ethernet controllers produced by 19131da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEC (now Compaq) based on the AMD Lance chipset, including the 19141da177e4SLinus Torvalds DEPCA series. (This chipset is better known via the NE2100 cards.) 19151da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19161da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig 68360_ENET 19171da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Motorola 68360 ethernet controller" 19181da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on M68360 19191da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in ethernet controller of 19211da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Motorola 68360 processor. 19221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19231da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FEC 19242af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "FEC ethernet controller (of ColdFire CPUs)" 1925892b6252SGreg Ungerer depends on M523x || M527x || M5272 || M528x || M520x 19261da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19271da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the built-in 10/100 Fast ethernet 19282af6921fSGreg Ungerer controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 19292af6921fSGreg Ungerer 19302af6921fSGreg Ungererconfig FEC2 19312af6921fSGreg Ungerer bool "Second FEC ethernet controller (on some ColdFire CPUs)" 19322af6921fSGreg Ungerer depends on FEC 19332af6921fSGreg Ungerer help 19342af6921fSGreg Ungerer Say Y here if you want to use the second built-in 10/100 Fast 19352af6921fSGreg Ungerer ethernet controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 19361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19371da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NE_H8300 19381da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "NE2000 compatible support for H8/300" 1939d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardt depends on H8300 19401da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to use the NE2000 compatible 19421da177e4SLinus Torvalds controller on the Renesas H8/300 processor. 19431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19441da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/fec_8xx/Kconfig" 194548257c4fSPantelis Antoniousource "drivers/net/fs_enet/Kconfig" 19461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1947d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NET_ETHERNET 19481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19491da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 19501da177e4SLinus Torvalds# Gigabit Ethernet 19511da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 19521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1953f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_1000 1954f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (1000 Mbit)" 1955cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 1956f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 195706bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 195806bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 195906bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 196006bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 196106bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 196206bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 196306bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Note that drivers supporting both 100 and 1000 MBit may be listed 196406bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt under "Ethernet (10 or 100MBit)" instead. 196506bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 196606bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 1967f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 1968f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_1000 19691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19701da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC 19711da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support" 19721da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 19731da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 19741da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear 19751da177e4SLinus Torvalds GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet 19761da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000 19771da177e4SLinus Torvalds bytes/frame) however it requires that your switches can handle this 19781da177e4SLinus Torvalds as well. To enable Jumbo Frames, add `mtu 9000' to your ifconfig 19791da177e4SLinus Torvalds line. 19801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19811da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 19821da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called acenic. 19831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19841da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I 19851da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs" 19861da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ACENIC 19871da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 19881da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave 19891da177e4SLinus Torvalds out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer 19901da177e4SLinus Torvalds being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B 19911da177e4SLinus Torvalds version)). This will reduce the size of the driver object by 19921da177e4SLinus Torvalds app. 100KB. If you are not sure whether your card is a Tigon I or a 19931da177e4SLinus Torvalds Tigon II, say N here. 19941da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19951da177e4SLinus Torvalds The safe and default value for this is N. 19961da177e4SLinus Torvalds 19971da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DL2K 19981da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet support" 19991da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 20011da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20021da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports D-Link 2000-based gigabit ethernet cards, which 20031da177e4SLinus Torvalds includes 20041da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 20051da177e4SLinus Torvalds D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 20061da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20071da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 20081da177e4SLinus Torvalds module will be called dl2k. 20091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20101da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000 20111da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 20121da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 20141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet family of 20151da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 20161da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 20171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20181da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 20191da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20201da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 20211da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 20221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 20241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20251da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 20261da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 20271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20281da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 20291da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 20301da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called e1000. 20311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20321da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig E1000_NAPI 20331da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 20341da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on E1000 20351da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20361da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 20371da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 20381da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 20391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 20411da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 20421da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 20431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20441da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 20451da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 20461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 20481da177e4SLinus Torvalds 204935ec56bbSJesse Brandeburgconfig E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT 205035ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg bool "Disable Packet Split for PCI express adapters" 205135ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg depends on E1000 205235ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg help 205335ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg Say Y here if you want to use the legacy receive path for PCI express 20549e6b4873SJames Ring hardware. 205535ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 205635ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg If in doubt, say N. 205735ec56bbSJesse Brandeburg 2058*bc7f75faSAuke Kokconfig E1000E 2059*bc7f75faSAuke Kok tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 2060*bc7f75faSAuke Kok depends on PCI 2061*bc7f75faSAuke Kok ---help--- 2062*bc7f75faSAuke Kok This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit 2063*bc7f75faSAuke Kok ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters, 2064*bc7f75faSAuke Kok use the regular e1000 driver For more information on how to 2065*bc7f75faSAuke Kok identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 2066*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2067*bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 2068*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2069*bc7f75faSAuke Kok For general information and support, go to the Intel support 2070*bc7f75faSAuke Kok website at: 2071*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2072*bc7f75faSAuke Kok <http://support.intel.com> 2073*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2074*bc7f75faSAuke Kok More specific information on configuring the driver is in 2075*bc7f75faSAuke Kok <file:Documentation/networking/e1000e.txt>. 2076*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 2077*bc7f75faSAuke Kok To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 2078*bc7f75faSAuke Kok <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 2079*bc7f75faSAuke Kok will be called e1000e. 2080*bc7f75faSAuke Kok 208115d014d1SLennert Buytenheksource "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig" 208215d014d1SLennert Buytenhek 20831da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MYRI_SBUS 20841da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support" 20851da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SBUS 20861da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20871da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports MyriCOM Sbus gigabit Ethernet cards. 20881da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20891da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 20901da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called myri_sbus. This is recommended. 20911da177e4SLinus Torvalds 20921da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NS83820 209347c51431SJon Mason tristate "National Semiconductor DP83820 support" 20941da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 20951da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 20961da177e4SLinus Torvalds This is a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820 series 20971da177e4SLinus Torvalds of gigabit ethernet MACs. Cards using this chipset include 20981da177e4SLinus Torvalds the D-Link DGE-500T, PureData's PDP8023Z-TG, SMC's SMC9462TX, 20991da177e4SLinus Torvalds SOHO-GA2000T, SOHO-GA2500T. The driver supports the use of 21001da177e4SLinus Torvalds zero copy. 21011da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21021da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HAMACHI 21031da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support" 21041da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 21051da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 21061da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21071da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y and read 21081da177e4SLinus Torvalds the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 21091da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 21101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21111da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 21121da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 21131da177e4SLinus Torvalds called hamachi. 21141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig YELLOWFIN 21161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 21181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 21191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 21201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet 21211da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is 21221da177e4SLinus Torvalds used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See 21231da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html> for more 21241da177e4SLinus Torvalds information about this driver in particular and Beowulf in general. 21251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21261da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 21271da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called yellowfin. This is recommended. 21281da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21291da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169 21301da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" 21311da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 21321da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 21331da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 21341da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. 21351da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21361da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 21371da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called r8169. This is recommended. 21381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_NAPI 21401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx and Tx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 21411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && EXPERIMENTAL 21421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 21431da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 21441da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 21451da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 21461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21471da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 21481da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 21491da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 21501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21511da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 21521da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 21531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21541da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 21551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig R8169_VLAN 21571da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "VLAN support" 21581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on R8169 && VLAN_8021Q 21591da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 21601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here for the r8169 driver to support the functions required 21611da177e4SLinus Torvalds by the kernel 802.1Q code. 21621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 21631da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say Y. 21641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2165890e8d0aSFrancois Romieuconfig SIS190 2166e797637fSFrancois Romieu tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support" 2167890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu depends on PCI 2168890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu select CRC32 2169e9985d53SAdrian Bunk select MII 2170890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu ---help--- 2171e797637fSFrancois Romieu Say Y here if you have a SiS 190 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter or 2172e797637fSFrancois Romieu a SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Both are expected to 2173e797637fSFrancois Romieu appear in lan on motherboard designs which are based on SiS 965 2174e797637fSFrancois Romieu and SiS 966 south bridge. 2175890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2176890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2177890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu will be called sis190. This is recommended. 2178890e8d0aSFrancois Romieu 2179baef58b1SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKGE 21807a160c73SStephen Hemminger tristate "New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support" 21817a160c73SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2182baef58b1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2183baef58b1SStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2184baef58b1SStephen Hemminger This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 2185baef58b1SStephen Hemminger and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver 218646a60f2dSStephen Hemminger with better performance and more complete ethtool support. 2187baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2188baef58b1SStephen Hemminger It does not support the link failover and network management 21895ad887faSStephen Hemminger features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does. 2190baef58b1SStephen Hemminger 2191c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset: 2192c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T, 2193c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872. 2194c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2195c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver, 2196c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters. 2197c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2198c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2199c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake will be called skge. This is recommended. 2200cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2201cd28ab6aSStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2 22028a3e3bfdSStephen Hemminger tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support" 2203f479b322SStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 2204cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger select CRC32 2205cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 2206cab00891SMatt LaPlante This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the 2207c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell Yukon 2 chipset: 2208c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/ 2209c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 88E8053/88E8055/88E8061/88E8062, SysKonnect SK-9E21D/SK-9S21 2210c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 2211f479b322SStephen Hemminger There is companion driver for the older Marvell Yukon and 2212f479b322SStephen Hemminger Genesis based adapters: skge. 2213cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 2214cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2215cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger will be called sky2. This is recommended. 2216cd28ab6aSStephen Hemminger 22173cf26753SStephen Hemmingerconfig SKY2_DEBUG 22183cf26753SStephen Hemminger bool "Debugging interface" 22193cf26753SStephen Hemminger depends on SKY2 && DEBUG_FS 22203cf26753SStephen Hemminger help 22213cf26753SStephen Hemminger This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 22223cf26753SStephen Hemminger The file debugfs/sky2/ethX displays the state of the internal 22233cf26753SStephen Hemminger transmit and receive rings. 2224c6f0d75aSDaniel Drake 22253cf26753SStephen Hemminger If unsure, say N. 22261da177e4SLinus Torvalds 22275ad887faSStephen Hemmingerconfig SK98LIN 22285ad887faSStephen Hemminger tristate "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx Support (DEPRECATED)" 22295ad887faSStephen Hemminger depends on PCI 22305ad887faSStephen Hemminger ---help--- 22315ad887faSStephen Hemminger Say Y here if you have a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 22325ad887faSStephen Hemminger compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 22335ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22345ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver supports the original Yukon chipset. This driver is 22355ad887faSStephen Hemminger deprecated and will be removed from the kernel in the near future, 22365ad887faSStephen Hemminger it has been replaced by the skge driver. skge is cleaner and 22375ad887faSStephen Hemminger seems to work better. 22385ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22395ad887faSStephen Hemminger This driver does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset. A separate 22405ad887faSStephen Hemminger driver, sky2, is provided to support Yukon2-based adapters. 22415ad887faSStephen Hemminger 22425ad887faSStephen Hemminger The following adapters are supported by this driver: 22435ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C940 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 22445ad887faSStephen Hemminger - 3Com 3C941 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter 22455ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22465ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970LX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22475ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22485ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970SX/2SC Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22495ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22505ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2970TX/2TX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22515ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971SX Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22525ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Allied Telesyn AT-2971T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter 22535ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Belkin Gigabit Desktop Card 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter, Copper RJ-45 22545ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1032 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 22555ad887faSStephen Hemminger - EG1064 v2 Instant Gigabit Network Adapter 22565ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Abit) 22575ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Albatron) 22585ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Asus) 22595ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (ECS) 22605ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Epox) 22615ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Foxconn) 22625ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Gigabyte) 22635ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8001 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Iwill) 22645ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell 88E8050 Gigabit LOM Ethernet Adapter (Intel) 22655ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8001 Adapter 22665ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8002 Adapter 22675ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8003 Adapter 22685ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8004 Adapter 22695ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8006 Adapter 22705ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8007 Adapter 22715ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8008 Adapter 22725ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8009 Adapter 22735ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8010 Adapter 22745ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8011 Adapter 22755ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8012 Adapter 22765ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell RDK-8052 Adapter 22775ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (32 bit) 22785ad887faSStephen Hemminger - Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (64 bit) 22795ad887faSStephen Hemminger - N-Way PCI-Bus Giga-Card 1000/100/10Mbps(L) 22805ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22815ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9521 V2.0 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22825ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T) 22835ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9821 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter 22845ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9822 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-T dual link) 22855ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX) 22865ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9841 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-LX Adapter 22875ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9842 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-LX dual link) 22885ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX) 22895ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9843 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22905ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9844 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX dual link) 22915ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9851 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22925ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition) 22935ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9861 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-SX Adapter 22945ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9862 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-SX Volition dual link) 22955ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX) 22965ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9871 V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet 1000Base-ZX Adapter 22975ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SK-9872 Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter (SK-NET GE-ZX dual link) 22985ad887faSStephen Hemminger - SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9452TXV.2) 22995ad887faSStephen Hemminger 23005ad887faSStephen Hemminger The adapters support Jumbo Frames. 23015ad887faSStephen Hemminger The dual link adapters support link-failover and dual port features. 23025ad887faSStephen Hemminger Both Marvell Yukon and SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx adapters support 23035ad887faSStephen Hemminger the scatter-gather functionality with sendfile(). Please refer to 23045ad887faSStephen Hemminger <file:Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt> for more information about 23055ad887faSStephen Hemminger optional driver parameters. 23065ad887faSStephen Hemminger Questions concerning this driver may be addressed to: 23075ad887faSStephen Hemminger <linux@syskonnect.de> 23085ad887faSStephen Hemminger 23095ad887faSStephen Hemminger If you want to compile this driver as a module ( = code which can be 23105ad887faSStephen Hemminger inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 23115ad887faSStephen Hemminger say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. The module will 23125ad887faSStephen Hemminger be called sk98lin. This is recommended. 23135ad887faSStephen Hemminger 23141da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig VIA_VELOCITY 23151da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "VIA Velocity support" 231673815538SYoichi Yuasa depends on PCI 23171da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC32 23181da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 23191da177e4SLinus Torvalds select MII 23201da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 23211da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you have a VIA "Velocity" based network card say Y here. 23221da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23231da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 23241da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called via-velocity. 23251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23261da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig TIGON3 23271da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" 23281da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 23291da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 23301da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. 23311da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23321da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23331da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called tg3. This is recommended. 23341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2335b6016b76SMichael Chanconfig BNX2 2336b6016b76SMichael Chan tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII support" 2337b6016b76SMichael Chan depends on PCI 2338fba9fe91SMichael Chan select CRC32 2339fba9fe91SMichael Chan select ZLIB_INFLATE 2340b6016b76SMichael Chan help 2341b6016b76SMichael Chan This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII gigabit Ethernet cards. 2342b6016b76SMichael Chan 2343b6016b76SMichael Chan To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2344b6016b76SMichael Chan will be called bnx2. This is recommended. 2345b6016b76SMichael Chan 2346aaec0fabSJens Osterkampconfig SPIDER_NET 2347aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver" 23483342cf0eSKou Ishizaki depends on PCI && (PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE || PPC_CELLEB) 23499b15879aSChristoph Hellwig select FW_LOADER 2350aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp help 2351aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the 2352aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM. 2353aaec0fabSJens Osterkamp 23545e123b84SZang Roy-r61911config TSI108_ETH 23555e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 tristate "Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet support" 23565e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 depends on TSI108_BRIDGE 23575e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 help 23585e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 This driver supports Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet ports. 23595e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 23605e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 will be called tsi108_eth. 23615e123b84SZang Roy-r61911 236202c18891SMasakazu Mokunoconfig GELIC_NET 236302c18891SMasakazu Mokuno tristate "PS3 Gigabit Ethernet driver" 236402c18891SMasakazu Mokuno depends on PPC_PS3 236502c18891SMasakazu Mokuno help 236602c18891SMasakazu Mokuno This driver supports the network device on the PS3 game 236702c18891SMasakazu Mokuno console. This driver has built-in support for Ethernet. 236802c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 236902c18891SMasakazu Mokuno To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 237002c18891SMasakazu Mokuno module will be called ps3_gelic. 237102c18891SMasakazu Mokuno 23721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GIANFAR 23731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Gianfar Ethernet" 2374ef82a306SJon Loeliger depends on 85xx || 83xx || PPC_86xx 2375bb40dcbbSAndy Fleming select PHYLIB 2376bf41a7c5SDave Jiang select CRC32 23771da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 2378ef82a306SJon Loeliger This driver supports the Gigabit TSEC on the MPC83xx, MPC85xx, 2379ef82a306SJon Loeliger and MPC86xx family of chips, and the FEC on the 8540. 23801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 23811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig GFAR_NAPI 23821da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "NAPI Support" 23831da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on GIANFAR 23841da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2385ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UCC_GETH 23867d776cb5STimur Tabi tristate "Freescale QE Gigabit Ethernet" 23877d776cb5STimur Tabi depends on QUICC_ENGINE 2388296baae2SJan Altenberg select PHYLIB 2389ce973b14SLi Yang help 23907d776cb5STimur Tabi This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet mode of the QUICC Engine, 23917d776cb5STimur Tabi which is available on some Freescale SOCs. 2392ce973b14SLi Yang 2393ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_NAPI 2394ce973b14SLi Yang bool "NAPI Support" 2395ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2396ce973b14SLi Yang 2397ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_MAGIC_PACKET 2398ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Magic Packet detection support" 2399ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2400ce973b14SLi Yang 2401ce973b14SLi Yangconfig UGETH_FILTERING 2402ce973b14SLi Yang bool "Mac address filtering support" 2403ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2404ce973b14SLi Yang 2405d5b9049dSMichael Reissconfig UGETH_TX_ON_DEMAND 2406d5b9049dSMichael Reiss bool "Transmit on Demand support" 2407ce973b14SLi Yang depends on UCC_GETH 2408ce973b14SLi Yang 24091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig MV643XX_ETH 24101da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "MV-643XX Ethernet support" 2411688b3d72SRalf Baechle depends on MV64360 || MV64X60 || (PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC32) 2412cd6478c8SDale Farnsworth select MII 24131da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 24141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the gigabit Ethernet on the Marvell MV643XX 24151da177e4SLinus Torvalds chipset which is used in the Momenco Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and 24161da177e4SLinus Torvalds Pegasos II, amongst other PPC and MIPS boards. 24171da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24185a4faa87SRon Mercerconfig QLA3XXX 24195a4faa87SRon Mercer tristate "QLogic QLA3XXX Network Driver Support" 24205a4faa87SRon Mercer depends on PCI 24215a4faa87SRon Mercer help 24225a4faa87SRon Mercer This driver supports QLogic ISP3XXX gigabit Ethernet cards. 24235a4faa87SRon Mercer 24245a4faa87SRon Mercer To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24255a4faa87SRon Mercer will be called qla3xxx. 24265a4faa87SRon Mercer 2427f3cc28c7SJay Cliburnconfig ATL1 2428f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn tristate "Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2429a1ca14b1SJay Cliburn depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2430f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select CRC32 2431f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn select MII 2432f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn help 2433f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn This driver supports the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. 2434f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2435f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2436f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn will be called atl1. 2437f3cc28c7SJay Cliburn 2438f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_1000 24391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24401da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 24411da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 10 Gigabit Ethernet 24421da177e4SLinus Torvalds# 24431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2444f30486d5SJan Engelhardtmenuconfig NETDEV_10000 2445f30486d5SJan Engelhardt bool "Ethernet (10000 Mbit)" 2446cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on !UML 2447f30486d5SJan Engelhardt default y 244806bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt ---help--- 244906bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt Say Y here to get to see options for 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 245006bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt This option alone does not add any kernel code. 245106bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt 245206bfb7ebSJan Engelhardt If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 2453f30486d5SJan Engelhardt 2454f30486d5SJan Engelhardtif NETDEV_10000 24551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 24568199d3a7SChristoph Lameterconfig CHELSIO_T1 24578199d3a7SChristoph Lameter tristate "Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet support" 24588199d3a7SChristoph Lameter depends on PCI 245957834ca1SStephen Hemminger select CRC32 24608199d3a7SChristoph Lameter help 2461f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger This driver supports Chelsio gigabit and 10-gigabit 2462f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger Ethernet cards. More information about adapter features and 2463f1d3d38aSStephen Hemminger performance tuning is in <file:Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt>. 24648199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24658199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 24668199d3a7SChristoph Lameter our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 24678199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24688199d3a7SChristoph Lameter For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 24698199d3a7SChristoph Lameter <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 24708199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24718199d3a7SChristoph Lameter Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 24728199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 24738199d3a7SChristoph Lameter To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 24748199d3a7SChristoph Lameter will be called cxgb. 24758199d3a7SChristoph Lameter 2476352c417dSStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_1G 2477352c417dSStephen Hemminger bool "Chelsio gigabit Ethernet support" 2478352c417dSStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 2479352c417dSStephen Hemminger help 2480352c417dSStephen Hemminger Enables support for Chelsio's gigabit Ethernet PCI cards. If you 2481352c417dSStephen Hemminger are using only 10G cards say 'N' here. 2482352c417dSStephen Hemminger 24837fe26a60SStephen Hemmingerconfig CHELSIO_T1_NAPI 24847fe26a60SStephen Hemminger bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 24857fe26a60SStephen Hemminger depends on CHELSIO_T1 24867fe26a60SStephen Hemminger default y 24877fe26a60SStephen Hemminger help 24887fe26a60SStephen Hemminger NAPI is a driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 24897fe26a60SStephen Hemminger when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. 24907fe26a60SStephen Hemminger 24914d22de3eSDivy Le Rayconfig CHELSIO_T3 24924d22de3eSDivy Le Ray tristate "Chelsio Communications T3 10Gb Ethernet support" 24934d22de3eSDivy Le Ray depends on PCI 24942e283962SDivy Le Ray select FW_LOADER 24954d22de3eSDivy Le Ray help 24964d22de3eSDivy Le Ray This driver supports Chelsio T3-based gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet 24974d22de3eSDivy Le Ray adapters. 24984d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 24994d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 25004d22de3eSDivy Le Ray our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 25014d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25024d22de3eSDivy Le Ray For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 25034d22de3eSDivy Le Ray <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 25044d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25054d22de3eSDivy Le Ray Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 25064d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25074d22de3eSDivy Le Ray To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 25084d22de3eSDivy Le Ray will be called cxgb3. 25094d22de3eSDivy Le Ray 25107a291083SJan-Bernd Themannconfig EHEA 25117a291083SJan-Bernd Themann tristate "eHEA Ethernet support" 25127a291083SJan-Bernd Themann depends on IBMEBUS 2513d4dc4ec9SJan-Bernd Themann select INET_LRO 25147a291083SJan-Bernd Themann ---help--- 25157a291083SJan-Bernd Themann This driver supports the IBM pSeries eHEA ethernet adapter. 25167a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 25177a291083SJan-Bernd Themann To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module 25187a291083SJan-Bernd Themann will be called ehea. 25197a291083SJan-Bernd Themann 25201da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB 25211da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support" 25221da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 25231da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 25241da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/10GbE family of 25251da177e4SLinus Torvalds adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 25261da177e4SLinus Torvalds to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 25271da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25281da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 25291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25301da177e4SLinus Torvalds For general information and support, go to the Intel support 25311da177e4SLinus Torvalds website at: 25321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25331da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://support.intel.com> 25341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25351da177e4SLinus Torvalds More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25361da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/ixgb.txt>. 25371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25381da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 25391da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 25401da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called ixgb. 25411da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25421da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig IXGB_NAPI 25431da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25441da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on IXGB && EXPERIMENTAL 25451da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25461da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25471da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25481da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25501da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25511da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25521da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25541da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 25551da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 25561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO 25601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "S2IO 10Gbe XFrame NIC" 25611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PCI 25621da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 25631da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver supports the 10Gbe XFrame NIC of S2IO. 25649eb343aeSAkinobu Mita More specific information on configuring the driver is in 25659eb343aeSAkinobu Mita <file:Documentation/networking/s2io.txt>. 25661da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25671da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig S2IO_NAPI 25681da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 25691da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on S2IO && EXPERIMENTAL 25701da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 25711da177e4SLinus Torvalds NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 25721da177e4SLinus Torvalds when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 25731da177e4SLinus Torvalds still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 25741da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25751da177e4SLinus Torvalds If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 25761da177e4SLinus Torvalds deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 25771da177e4SLinus Torvalds then say Y here. 25781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25791da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt> for more 25801da177e4SLinus Torvalds information. 25811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25821da177e4SLinus Torvalds If in doubt, say N. 25831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 25840da34b6dSBrice Goglinconfig MYRI10GE 25850da34b6dSBrice Goglin tristate "Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet support" 25860da34b6dSBrice Goglin depends on PCI 25870da34b6dSBrice Goglin select FW_LOADER 25880da34b6dSBrice Goglin select CRC32 25891e6e9342SAndrew Gallatin select INET_LRO 25900da34b6dSBrice Goglin ---help--- 25910da34b6dSBrice Goglin This driver supports Myricom Myri-10G Dual Protocol interface in 25920da34b6dSBrice Goglin Ethernet mode. If the eeprom on your board is not recent enough, 25930da34b6dSBrice Goglin you will need a newer firmware image. 25940da34b6dSBrice Goglin You may get this image or more information, at: 25950da34b6dSBrice Goglin 2596d2794905SBrice Goglin <http://www.myri.com/scs/download-Myri10GE.html> 25970da34b6dSBrice Goglin 25980da34b6dSBrice Goglin To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 25990da34b6dSBrice Goglin <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module 26000da34b6dSBrice Goglin will be called myri10ge. 26010da34b6dSBrice Goglin 26023d396eb1SAmit S. Kaleconfig NETXEN_NIC 26033d396eb1SAmit S. Kale tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC" 26045ac36615SRandy Dunlap depends on PCI 26053d396eb1SAmit S. Kale help 26063d396eb1SAmit S. Kale This enables the support for NetXen's Gigabit Ethernet card. 26073d396eb1SAmit S. Kale 2608f5cd7872SOlof Johanssonconfig PASEMI_MAC 2609f5cd7872SOlof Johansson tristate "PA Semi 1/10Gbit MAC" 2610f5cd7872SOlof Johansson depends on PPC64 && PCI 2611bb6e9590SOlof Johansson select PHYLIB 2612f5cd7872SOlof Johansson help 2613f5cd7872SOlof Johansson This driver supports the on-chip 1/10Gbit Ethernet controller on 2614f5cd7872SOlof Johansson PA Semi's PWRficient line of chips. 2615f5cd7872SOlof Johansson 2616225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_CORE 2617225c7b1fSRoland Dreier tristate 2618225c7b1fSRoland Dreier depends on PCI 2619225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default n 2620225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 2621225c7b1fSRoland Dreierconfig MLX4_DEBUG 2622225c7b1fSRoland Dreier bool "Verbose debugging output" if (MLX4_CORE && EMBEDDED) 2623f550d94cSPaul Mundt depends on MLX4_CORE 2624225c7b1fSRoland Dreier default y 2625225c7b1fSRoland Dreier ---help--- 2626225c7b1fSRoland Dreier This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the 2627225c7b1fSRoland Dreier mlx4_core driver. The output can be turned on via the 2628225c7b1fSRoland Dreier debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after 2629225c7b1fSRoland Dreier the driver is loaded through sysfs). 2630225c7b1fSRoland Dreier 2631f30486d5SJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEV_10000 26321da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26331da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" 26341da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26351da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 26361da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26375b2fc499SJeff Garziksource "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 26385b2fc499SJeff Garzik 26391da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig" 26401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26411da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 26421da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26431da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 26441da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26451da177e4SLinus Torvaldssource "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 26461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26470d160211SJeremy Fitzhardingeconfig XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 26480d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 26490d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge depends on XEN 26500d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge default y 26510d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge help 26520d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to 26530d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge access network devices exported exported by a virtual 26540d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge machine containing a physical network device driver. The 26550d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge frontend driver is intended for unprivileged guest domains; 26560d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge if you are compiling a kernel for a Xen guest, you almost 26570d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge certainly want to enable this. 26580d160211SJeremy Fitzhardinge 26591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ISERIES_VETH 26601da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "iSeries Virtual Ethernet driver support" 2661cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PPC_ISERIES 26621da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2663f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET 2664f89efd52SMatt Porter tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 2665a81c52a8SRandy Dunlap depends on RAPIDIO 2666f89efd52SMatt Porter 2667f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_TX_SIZE 2668f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of outbound queue entries" 2669f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2670f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2671f89efd52SMatt Porter 2672f89efd52SMatt Porterconfig RIONET_RX_SIZE 2673f89efd52SMatt Porter int "Number of inbound queue entries" 2674f89efd52SMatt Porter depends on RIONET 2675f89efd52SMatt Porter default "128" 2676f89efd52SMatt Porter 26771da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig FDDI 26781da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "FDDI driver support" 2679e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on (PCI || EISA || TC) 26801da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 26811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network 26821da177e4SLinus Torvalds design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can 26831da177e4SLinus Torvalds run over copper or fiber. If you are connected to such a network and 26841da177e4SLinus Torvalds want a driver for the FDDI card in your computer, say Y here (and 26851da177e4SLinus Torvalds then also Y to the driver for your FDDI card, below). Most people 26861da177e4SLinus Torvalds will say N. 26871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 26881da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig DEFXX 2689e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support" 2690e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC) 2691e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2692e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA), 2693e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you 2694e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki to a local FDDI network. 2695e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2696e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2697e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki will be called defxx. If unsure, say N. 2698e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2699e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozyckiconfig DEFXX_MMIO 2700e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki bool 2701e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki prompt "Use MMIO instead of PIO" if PCI || EISA 2702e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki depends on DEFXX 2703e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default n if PCI || EISA 2704e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki default y 2705e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki ---help--- 2706e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki This instructs the driver to use EISA or PCI memory-mapped I/O 2707e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki (MMIO) as appropriate instead of programmed I/O ports (PIO). 2708e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki Enabling this gives an improvement in processing time in parts 2709e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki of the driver, but it may cause problems with EISA (DEFEA) 2710e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki adapters. TURBOchannel does not have the concept of I/O ports, 2711e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki so MMIO is always used for these (DEFTA) adapters. 2712e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki 2713e89a2cfbSMaciej W. Rozycki If unsure, say N. 27141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SKFP 27161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support" 27171da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on FDDI && PCI 2718bc63eb9cSAkinobu Mita select BITREVERSE 27191da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27201da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter. 27211da177e4SLinus Torvalds The following adapters are supported by this driver: 27221da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5521 (SK-NET FDDI-UP) 27231da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5522 (SK-NET FDDI-UP DAS) 27241da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5541 (SK-NET FDDI-FP) 27251da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5543 (SK-NET FDDI-LP) 27261da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5544 (SK-NET FDDI-LP DAS) 27271da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5821 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64) 27281da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5822 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64 DAS) 27291da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5841 (SK-NET FDDI-FP64) 27301da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5843 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64) 27311da177e4SLinus Torvalds - SK-5844 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64 DAS) 27321da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS Fibre SC 27331da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre SC 27341da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS UTP 27351da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS UTP 27361da177e4SLinus Torvalds - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre MIC 27371da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27381da177e4SLinus Torvalds Read <file:Documentation/networking/skfp.txt> for information about 27391da177e4SLinus Torvalds the driver. 27401da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27411da177e4SLinus Torvalds Questions concerning this driver can be addressed to: 27421da177e4SLinus Torvalds <linux@syskonnect.de> 27431da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27441da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27451da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called skfp. This is recommended. 27461da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27471da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig HIPPI 27481da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "HIPPI driver support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2749cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET && PCI 27501da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27511da177e4SLinus Torvalds HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) is a 800Mbit/sec and 27521da177e4SLinus Torvalds 1600Mbit/sec dual-simplex switched or point-to-point network. HIPPI 27531da177e4SLinus Torvalds can run over copper (25m) or fiber (300m on multi-mode or 10km on 27541da177e4SLinus Torvalds single-mode). HIPPI networks are commonly used for clusters and to 27551da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to super computers. If you are connected to a HIPPI network 27561da177e4SLinus Torvalds and have a HIPPI network card in your computer that you want to use 27571da177e4SLinus Torvalds under Linux, say Y here (you must also remember to enable the driver 27581da177e4SLinus Torvalds for your HIPPI card below). Most people will say N here. 27591da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27601da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER 27611da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Essential RoadRunner HIPPI PCI adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27621da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on HIPPI && PCI 27631da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27641da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if this is your PCI HIPPI network card. 27651da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27661da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 27671da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called rrunner. If unsure, say N. 27681da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27691da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig ROADRUNNER_LARGE_RINGS 27701da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Use large TX/RX rings (EXPERIMENTAL)" 27711da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ROADRUNNER 27721da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 27731da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you say Y here, the RoadRunner driver will preallocate up to 2 MB 27741da177e4SLinus Torvalds of additional memory to allow for fastest operation, both for 27751da177e4SLinus Torvalds transmitting and receiving. This memory cannot be used by any other 27761da177e4SLinus Torvalds kernel code or by user space programs. Say Y here only if you have 27771da177e4SLinus Torvalds the memory. 27781da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27791da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PLIP 27801da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PLIP (parallel port) support" 2781cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on PARPORT 27821da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 27831da177e4SLinus Torvalds PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a 27841da177e4SLinus Torvalds reasonably fast mini network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) 27851da177e4SLinus Torvalds local machines. A PLIP link from a Linux box is a popular means to 27861da177e4SLinus Torvalds install a Linux distribution on a machine which doesn't have a 27871da177e4SLinus Torvalds CD-ROM drive (a minimal system has to be transferred with floppies 27881da177e4SLinus Torvalds first). The kernels on both machines need to have this PLIP option 27891da177e4SLinus Torvalds enabled for this to work. 27901da177e4SLinus Torvalds 27911da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PLIP driver has two modes, mode 0 and mode 1. The parallel 27921da177e4SLinus Torvalds ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are connected 27931da177e4SLinus Torvalds with "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can transmit 4 27941da177e4SLinus Torvalds bits at a time (mode 0) or with special PLIP cables, to be used on 27951da177e4SLinus Torvalds bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a 27961da177e4SLinus Torvalds time (mode 1); you can find the wiring of these cables in 27971da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt>. The cables can be up to 27981da177e4SLinus Torvalds 15m long. Mode 0 works also if one of the machines runs DOS/Windows 27991da177e4SLinus Torvalds and has some PLIP software installed, e.g. the Crynwr PLIP packet 28001da177e4SLinus Torvalds driver (<http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/pktdrvr-pre.html>) 28011da177e4SLinus Torvalds and winsock or NCSA's telnet. 28021da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28031da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to use PLIP, say Y and read the PLIP mini-HOWTO as well 28041da177e4SLinus Torvalds as the NET-3-HOWTO, both available from 28051da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the PLIP 28061da177e4SLinus Torvalds protocol has been changed and this PLIP driver won't work together 28071da177e4SLinus Torvalds with the PLIP support in Linux versions 1.0.x. This option enlarges 28081da177e4SLinus Torvalds your kernel by about 8 KB. 28091da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28101da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 28111da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 28121da177e4SLinus Torvalds called plip. If unsure, say Y or M, in case you buy a laptop 28131da177e4SLinus Torvalds later. 28141da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28151da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP 28161da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support" 2817b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 28181da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28191da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP (Point to Point Protocol) is a newer and better SLIP. It serves 28201da177e4SLinus Torvalds the same purpose: sending Internet traffic over telephone (and other 28211da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial) lines. Ask your access provider if they support it, because 28221da177e4SLinus Torvalds otherwise you can't use it; most Internet access providers these 28231da177e4SLinus Torvalds days support PPP rather than SLIP. 28241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28251da177e4SLinus Torvalds To use PPP, you need an additional program called pppd as described 28261da177e4SLinus Torvalds in the PPP-HOWTO, available at 28271da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Make sure that you have 28281da177e4SLinus Torvalds the version of pppd recommended in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 28291da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP option enlarges your kernel by about 16 KB. 28301da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28311da177e4SLinus Torvalds There are actually two versions of PPP: the traditional PPP for 28321da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous lines, such as regular analog phone lines, and 28331da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP which can be used over digital ISDN lines for 28341da177e4SLinus Torvalds example. If you want to use PPP over phone lines or other 28351da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial lines, you need to say Y (or M) here and also to 28361da177e4SLinus Torvalds the next option, "PPP support for async serial ports". For PPP over 28371da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous lines, you should say Y (or M) here and to "Support 28381da177e4SLinus Torvalds synchronous PPP", below. 28391da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28401da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you said Y to "Version information on all symbols" above, then 28411da177e4SLinus Torvalds you cannot compile the PPP driver into the kernel; you can then only 28421da177e4SLinus Torvalds compile it as a module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M 28431da177e4SLinus Torvalds here and read <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. 28441da177e4SLinus Torvalds The module will be called ppp_generic. 28451da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28461da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_MULTILINK 28471da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 28481da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 28491da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28501da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you 28511da177e4SLinus Torvalds to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP 28521da177e4SLinus Torvalds connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth. 28531da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28541da177e4SLinus Torvalds This has to be supported at the other end as well and you need a 28551da177e4SLinus Torvalds version of the pppd daemon which understands the multilink protocol. 28561da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28571da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 28581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28591da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_FILTER 28601da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "PPP filtering" 28611da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28621da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28631da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y here if you want to be able to filter the packets passing over 28641da177e4SLinus Torvalds PPP interfaces. This allows you to control which packets count as 28651da177e4SLinus Torvalds activity (i.e. which packets will reset the idle timer or bring up 286647c51431SJon Mason a demand-dialed link) and which packets are to be dropped entirely. 28671da177e4SLinus Torvalds You need to say Y here if you wish to use the pass-filter and 28681da177e4SLinus Torvalds active-filter options to pppd. 28691da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28701da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say N. 28711da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28721da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_ASYNC 28731da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for async serial ports" 28741da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28751da177e4SLinus Torvalds select CRC_CCITT 28761da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 28771da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over standard 28781da177e4SLinus Torvalds asynchronous serial ports, such as COM1 or COM2 on a PC. If you use 28791da177e4SLinus Torvalds a modem (not a synchronous or ISDN modem) to contact your ISP, you 28801da177e4SLinus Torvalds need this option. 28811da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28821da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 28831da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28841da177e4SLinus Torvalds If unsure, say Y. 28851da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28861da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_SYNC_TTY 28871da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP support for sync tty ports" 28881da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28891da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 28901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over synchronous 28911da177e4SLinus Torvalds (HDLC) tty devices, such as the SyncLink adapter. These devices 28921da177e4SLinus Torvalds are often used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1. 28931da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28941da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 28951da177e4SLinus Torvalds 28961da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_DEFLATE 28971da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP Deflate compression" 28981da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 28991da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_INFLATE 29001da177e4SLinus Torvalds select ZLIB_DEFLATE 29011da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29021da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the Deflate compression method for PPP, which uses the 29031da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate algorithm (the same algorithm that gzip uses) to compress 29041da177e4SLinus Torvalds each PPP packet before it is sent over the wire. The machine at the 29051da177e4SLinus Torvalds other end of the PPP link (usually your ISP) has to support the 29061da177e4SLinus Torvalds Deflate compression method as well for this to be useful. Even if 29071da177e4SLinus Torvalds they don't support it, it is safe to say Y here. 29081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29091da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 29101da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29111da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPP_BSDCOMP 29121da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP BSD-Compress compression" 29131da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on PPP 29141da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29151da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for the BSD-Compress compression method for PPP, which uses 29161da177e4SLinus Torvalds the LZW compression method to compress each PPP packet before it is 29171da177e4SLinus Torvalds sent over the wire. The machine at the other end of the PPP link 29181da177e4SLinus Torvalds (usually your ISP) has to support the BSD-Compress compression 29191da177e4SLinus Torvalds method as well for this to be useful. Even if they don't support it, 29201da177e4SLinus Torvalds it is safe to say Y here. 29211da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29221da177e4SLinus Torvalds The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression", 29231da177e4SLinus Torvalds above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better 29241da177e4SLinus Torvalds and is patent-free. 29251da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29261da177e4SLinus Torvalds Note that the BSD compression code will always be compiled as a 29271da177e4SLinus Torvalds module; it is called bsd_comp and will show up in the directory 29281da177e4SLinus Torvalds modules once you have said "make modules". If unsure, say N. 29291da177e4SLinus Torvalds 2930b3f9b92aSMatt Domschconfig PPP_MPPE 2931b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch tristate "PPP MPPE compression (encryption) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2932b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 2933b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO 2934b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_SHA1 2935b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch select CRYPTO_ARC4 2936bcbaecbbSPatrick McHardy select CRYPTO_ECB 2937b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch ---help--- 2938b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Support for the MPPE Encryption protocol, as employed by the 2939b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. 2940b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 2941b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch See http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ for information on 2942b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch configuring PPTP clients and servers to utilize this method. 2943b3f9b92aSMatt Domsch 29441da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOE 29451da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)" 29461da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP 29471da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29481da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support for PPP over Ethernet. 29491da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29501da177e4SLinus Torvalds This driver requires the latest version of pppd from the CVS 29511da177e4SLinus Torvalds repository at cvs.samba.org. Alternatively, see the 29521da177e4SLinus Torvalds RoaringPenguin package (<http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe>) 29531da177e4SLinus Torvalds which contains instruction on how to use this driver (under 29541da177e4SLinus Torvalds the heading "Kernel mode PPPoE"). 29551da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29561da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig PPPOATM 29571da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "PPP over ATM" 29581da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on ATM && PPP 29591da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 29601da177e4SLinus Torvalds Support PPP (Point to Point Protocol) encapsulated in ATM frames. 29611da177e4SLinus Torvalds This implementation does not yet comply with section 8 of RFC2364, 29621da177e4SLinus Torvalds which can lead to bad results if the ATM peer loses state and 29631da177e4SLinus Torvalds changes its encapsulation unilaterally. 29641da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29653557baabSJames Chapmanconfig PPPOL2TP 29663557baabSJames Chapman tristate "PPP over L2TP (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2967143cf353SJames Chapman depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP && INET 29683557baabSJames Chapman help 29693557baabSJames Chapman Support for PPP-over-L2TP socket family. L2TP is a protocol 29703557baabSJames Chapman used by ISPs and enterprises to tunnel PPP traffic over UDP 29713557baabSJames Chapman tunnels. L2TP is replacing PPTP for VPN uses. 29723557baabSJames Chapman 29733557baabSJames Chapman This kernel component handles only L2TP data packets: a 29743557baabSJames Chapman userland daemon handles L2TP the control protocol (tunnel 29753557baabSJames Chapman and session setup). One such daemon is OpenL2TP 29763557baabSJames Chapman (http://openl2tp.sourceforge.net/). 29773557baabSJames Chapman 29781da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP 29791da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "SLIP (serial line) support" 29801da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 29811da177e4SLinus Torvalds Say Y if you intend to use SLIP or CSLIP (compressed SLIP) to 29821da177e4SLinus Torvalds connect to your Internet service provider or to connect to some 29831da177e4SLinus Torvalds other local Unix box or if you want to configure your Linux box as a 29841da177e4SLinus Torvalds Slip/CSlip server for other people to dial in. SLIP (Serial Line 29851da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet Protocol) is a protocol used to send Internet traffic over 29861da177e4SLinus Torvalds serial connections such as telephone lines or null modem cables; 29871da177e4SLinus Torvalds nowadays, the protocol PPP is more commonly used for this same 29881da177e4SLinus Torvalds purpose. 29891da177e4SLinus Torvalds 29901da177e4SLinus Torvalds Normally, your access provider has to support SLIP in order for you 29911da177e4SLinus Torvalds to be able to use it, but there is now a SLIP emulator called SLiRP 29921da177e4SLinus Torvalds around (available from 29931da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 29941da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection. If 29951da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, make sure to say Y to CSLIP, below. The 29961da177e4SLinus Torvalds NET-3-HOWTO, available from 29971da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to 29981da177e4SLinus Torvalds configure SLIP. Note that you don't need this option if you just 29991da177e4SLinus Torvalds want to run term (term is a program which gives you almost full 30001da177e4SLinus Torvalds Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up shell account on 30011da177e4SLinus Torvalds some Internet connected Unix computer. Read 30021da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>). SLIP 30031da177e4SLinus Torvalds support will enlarge your kernel by about 4 KB. If unsure, say N. 30041da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30051da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here and read 30061da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt>. The module will be 30071da177e4SLinus Torvalds called slip. 30081da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30091da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_COMPRESSED 30101da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "CSLIP compressed headers" 30111da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 3012b6e37e55SRalf Baechle select SLHC 30131da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30141da177e4SLinus Torvalds This protocol is faster than SLIP because it uses compression on the 30151da177e4SLinus Torvalds TCP/IP headers (not on the data itself), but it has to be supported 30161da177e4SLinus Torvalds on both ends. Ask your access provider if you are not sure and 30171da177e4SLinus Torvalds answer Y, just in case. You will still be able to use plain SLIP. If 30181da177e4SLinus Torvalds you plan to use SLiRP, the SLIP emulator (available from 30191da177e4SLinus Torvalds <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 30201da177e4SLinus Torvalds allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection, you 30211da177e4SLinus Torvalds definitely want to say Y here. The NET-3-HOWTO, available from 30221da177e4SLinus Torvalds <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to configure 30231da177e4SLinus Torvalds CSLIP. This won't enlarge your kernel. 30241da177e4SLinus Torvalds 3025b6e37e55SRalf Baechleconfig SLHC 3026b6e37e55SRalf Baechle tristate 3027b6e37e55SRalf Baechle help 3028b6e37e55SRalf Baechle This option enables Van Jacobsen serial line header compression 3029b6e37e55SRalf Baechle routines. 3030b6e37e55SRalf Baechle 30311da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_SMART 30321da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Keepalive and linefill" 30331da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30341da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30351da177e4SLinus Torvalds Adds additional capabilities to the SLIP driver to support the 30361da177e4SLinus Torvalds RELCOM line fill and keepalive monitoring. Ideal on poor quality 30371da177e4SLinus Torvalds analogue lines. 30381da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30391da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 30401da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Six bit SLIP encapsulation" 30411da177e4SLinus Torvalds depends on SLIP 30421da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30431da177e4SLinus Torvalds Just occasionally you may need to run IP over hostile serial 30441da177e4SLinus Torvalds networks that don't pass all control characters or are only seven 30451da177e4SLinus Torvalds bit. Saying Y here adds an extra mode you can use with SLIP: 30461da177e4SLinus Torvalds "slip6". In this mode, SLIP will only send normal ASCII symbols over 30471da177e4SLinus Torvalds the serial device. Naturally, this has to be supported at the other 30481da177e4SLinus Torvalds end of the link as well. It's good enough, for example, to run IP 30491da177e4SLinus Torvalds over the async ports of a Camtec JNT Pad. If unsure, say N. 30501da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30511da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NET_FC 30521da177e4SLinus Torvalds bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 3053cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on SCSI && PCI 30541da177e4SLinus Torvalds help 30551da177e4SLinus Torvalds Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 30561da177e4SLinus Torvalds large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 30571da177e4SLinus Torvalds intended to replace SCSI. 30581da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30591da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 30601da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 30611da177e4SLinus Torvalds adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 30621da177e4SLinus Torvalds "SCSI generic support". 30631da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30641da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig SHAPER 30653b6a792fSJiri Slaby tristate "Traffic Shaper (OBSOLETE)" 3066cbcd2a4cSRandy Dunlap depends on EXPERIMENTAL 30671da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30681da177e4SLinus Torvalds The traffic shaper is a virtual network device that allows you to 30691da177e4SLinus Torvalds limit the rate of outgoing data flow over some other network device. 30701da177e4SLinus Torvalds The traffic that you want to slow down can then be routed through 30711da177e4SLinus Torvalds these virtual devices. See 30721da177e4SLinus Torvalds <file:Documentation/networking/shaper.txt> for more information. 30731da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30743b6a792fSJiri Slaby An alternative to this traffic shaper are traffic schedulers which 30753b6a792fSJiri Slaby you'll get if you say Y to "QoS and/or fair queuing" in 30763b6a792fSJiri Slaby "Networking options". 30771da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30781da177e4SLinus Torvalds To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 30791da177e4SLinus Torvalds will be called shaper. If unsure, say N. 30801da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30811da177e4SLinus Torvaldsconfig NETCONSOLE 30821da177e4SLinus Torvalds tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30835e43db77SMatt Mackall depends on EXPERIMENTAL 30841da177e4SLinus Torvalds ---help--- 30851da177e4SLinus Torvalds If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 30861da177e4SLinus Torvalds See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 30871da177e4SLinus Torvalds 30880bcc1816SSatyam Sharmaconfig NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 30890bcc1816SSatyam Sharma bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)" 30900bcc1816SSatyam Sharma depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 30910bcc1816SSatyam Sharma select CONFIGFS_FS 30920bcc1816SSatyam Sharma help 30930bcc1816SSatyam Sharma This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 30940bcc1816SSatyam Sharma parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 30950bcc1816SSatyam Sharma at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 30960bcc1816SSatyam Sharma See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 30970bcc1816SSatyam Sharma 309854208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL 309954208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETCONSOLE 310054208991SRandy Dunlap 310154208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NETPOLL_TRAP 310254208991SRandy Dunlap bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" 310354208991SRandy Dunlap default n 310454208991SRandy Dunlap depends on NETPOLL 310554208991SRandy Dunlap 310654208991SRandy Dunlapconfig NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 310754208991SRandy Dunlap def_bool NETPOLL 310854208991SRandy Dunlap 3109d1c0a65fSJan Engelhardtendif # NETDEVICES 3110