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# Wireless LAN device configuration
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menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
depends on NETDEVICES
config NET_RADIO
bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions"
select WIRELESS_EXT
---help---
Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio,
but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting.
Saying Y here also enables the Wireless Extensions (creates
/proc/net/wireless and enables iwconfig access). The Wireless
Extension is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user
space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs.
The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the
variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as
the driver supports Wireless Extension). Another advantage is that
these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the
driver (or Linux). If you wish to use Wireless Extensions with
wireless PCMCIA (PC-) cards, you need to say Y here; you can fetch
the tools from
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
config NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK
bool "Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink"
depends on NET_RADIO
---help---
Support the Wireless Extension API over the RtNetlink socket
in addition to the traditional ioctl interface (selected above).
For now, few tools use this facility, but it might grow in the
future. The only downside is that it adds 4.5 kB to your kernel.
# Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers
# are not, as people are still using them...
comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)"
depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA)
config STRIP
tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
depends on NET_RADIO && INET
---help---
Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
(on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
"Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
phone line and use it as a modem.)
You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
bigger.
To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called strip.
config ARLAN
tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
---help---
Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
<http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
config WAVELAN
tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
---help---
The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
for location).
If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
information is contained in
<file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
<file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
You will also need the wireless tools package available from
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
Please read the man pages contained therein.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called wavelan.
config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
help
Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
(PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
help
Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
config PCMCIA_RAYCS
tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
---help---
Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
(PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
details.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
config IPW2100
tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
select FW_LOADER
select IEEE80211
---help---
A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
for debugging issues and problems.
In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
You can obtain the firmware from
<http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
configure your card:
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called ipw2100.ko.
config IPW2100_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
depends on IPW2100
---help---
Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
mode, no packets can be sent.
config IPW2100_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
depends on IPW2100
---help---
This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
value in
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
most likely want to say N here.
config IPW2200
tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
select FW_LOADER
select IEEE80211
---help---
A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
Connection adapters.
See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
You can obtain the firmware from
<http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
for information on where to install the firmware images.
You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
configure your card:
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called ipw2200.ko.
config IPW2200_MONITOR
bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
depends on IPW2200
---help---
Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
mode, no packets can be sent.
config IPW2200_RADIOTAP
bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support"
depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
---help---
Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
format.
This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
maintaining an active association.
Example usage:
% modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
% ifconfig rtap0 up
% tethereal -i rtap0
If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
it on via sysfs:
% echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
config IPW2200_QOS
bool "Enable QoS support"
depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
config IPW2200_DEBUG
bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
depends on IPW2200
---help---
This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can
control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
value in
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
% echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
You can find the list of debug mask values in
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
most likely want to say N here.
config AIRO
tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && (PCI || BROKEN)
select CRYPTO
---help---
This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
- with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
config HERMES
tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
---help---
A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
- except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
config APPLE_AIRPORT
tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
help
Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
a non-standard interface.
This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
config PLX_HERMES
tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
depends on PCI && HERMES
help
Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
MA301 is such an adaptor.
config TMD_HERMES
tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
depends on PCI && HERMES
help
Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
config NORTEL_HERMES
tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
depends on PCI && HERMES
help
Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
config PCI_HERMES
tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
depends on PCI && HERMES
help
Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
this variety.
config ATMEL
tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
depends on NET_RADIO && (PCI || PCMCIA)
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
---help---
A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
firmware package can be downloaded from
<http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
config PCI_ATMEL
tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
depends on ATMEL && PCI
---help---
Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
Atmel at76c506 chip.
# If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
config PCMCIA_HERMES
tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
---help---
A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
<http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
select FW_LOADER
---help---
This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
config AIRO_CS
tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
select CRYPTO
---help---
This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
- with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
802.11b cards.
This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
config PCMCIA_ATMEL
tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
---help---
Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
config PCMCIA_WL3501
tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
---help---
A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
micro support for ethtool.
comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
config PRISM54
tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
select FW_LOADER
---help---
Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
<http://prism54.org>
You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
a current hotplug package.
Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called prism54.ko.
config USB_ZD1201
tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
depends on USB && NET_RADIO
select FW_LOADER
---help---
Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
ZD1201 chip.
This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
typically on wlan0.
The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
module will be called zd1201.
source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"
# yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
config NET_WIRELESS
bool
depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
default y
endmenu