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| 2 | # Wireless LAN device configuration |
| 3 | # |
| 4 | |
| 5 | menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)" |
| 6 | depends on NETDEVICES |
| 7 | |
| 8 | config NET_RADIO |
| 9 | bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions" |
| 10 | ---help--- |
| 11 | Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio, |
| 12 | but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Saying Y here also enables the Wireless Extensions (creates |
| 15 | /proc/net/wireless and enables iwconfig access). The Wireless |
| 16 | Extension is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user |
| 17 | space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs. |
| 18 | The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the |
| 19 | variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as |
| 20 | the driver supports Wireless Extension). Another advantage is that |
| 21 | these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the |
| 22 | driver (or Linux). If you wish to use Wireless Extensions with |
| 23 | wireless PCMCIA (PC-) cards, you need to say Y here; you can fetch |
| 24 | the tools from |
| 25 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Some user-level drivers for scarab devices which don't require |
| 28 | special kernel support are available from |
| 29 | <ftp://shadow.cabi.net/pub/Linux/>. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | # Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers |
| 32 | # are not, as people are still using them... |
| 33 | comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)" |
| 34 | depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA) |
| 35 | |
| 36 | config STRIP |
| 37 | tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)" |
| 38 | depends on NET_RADIO && INET |
| 39 | ---help--- |
| 40 | Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio |
| 41 | IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project |
| 42 | (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet |
| 43 | traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery |
| 44 | powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and |
| 45 | weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called |
| 46 | "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads |
| 47 | many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a |
| 48 | phone line and use it as a modem.) |
| 49 | |
| 50 | You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although |
| 51 | it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you |
| 52 | think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm |
| 53 | in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit |
| 54 | bigger. |
| 55 | |
| 56 | To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 57 | called strip. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | config ARLAN |
| 60 | tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support" |
| 61 | depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT |
| 62 | ---help--- |
| 63 | Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the |
| 64 | www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards. |
| 65 | This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at |
| 66 | <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information. |
| 67 | |
| 68 | The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter |
| 69 | is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some |
| 72 | time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it. |
| 73 | |
| 74 | config WAVELAN |
| 75 | tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support" |
| 76 | depends on NET_RADIO && ISA |
| 77 | ---help--- |
| 78 | The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is |
| 79 | a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the |
| 80 | radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz. |
| 81 | |
| 82 | This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate |
| 83 | driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David |
| 84 | Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> |
| 85 | for location). |
| 86 | |
| 87 | If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read |
| 88 | the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from |
| 89 | <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific |
| 90 | information is contained in |
| 91 | <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code |
| 92 | <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | You will also need the wireless tools package available from |
| 95 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. |
| 96 | Please read the man pages contained therein. |
| 97 | |
| 98 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 99 | called wavelan. |
| 100 | |
| 101 | config PCMCIA_WAVELAN |
| 102 | tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support" |
| 103 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 104 | help |
| 105 | Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA |
| 106 | (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This |
| 107 | driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 110 | called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | config PCMCIA_NETWAVE |
| 113 | tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support" |
| 114 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 115 | help |
| 116 | Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card) |
| 117 | wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. |
| 118 | |
| 119 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 120 | called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support" |
| 123 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 124 | |
| 125 | config PCMCIA_RAYCS |
| 126 | tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support" |
| 127 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 128 | ---help--- |
| 129 | Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA |
| 130 | (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. |
| 131 | Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for |
| 132 | details. |
| 133 | |
| 134 | To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be |
| 135 | called ray_cs. If unsure, say N. |
| 136 | |
| 137 | comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support" |
| 138 | depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA) |
| 139 | |
| 140 | config AIRO |
| 141 | tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards" |
| 142 | depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && (PCI || BROKEN) |
| 143 | ---help--- |
| 144 | This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and |
| 145 | PCI 802.11 wireless cards. |
| 146 | It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X |
| 147 | - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco |
| 148 | aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). |
| 149 | |
| 150 | This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions |
| 151 | and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the |
| 152 | Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. |
| 153 | |
| 154 | The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo". |
| 155 | |
| 156 | config HERMES |
| 157 | tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)" |
| 158 | depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) |
| 159 | ---help--- |
| 160 | A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or |
| 161 | Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast |
| 162 | majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges) |
| 163 | - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the |
| 164 | Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco, |
| 165 | Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya, |
| 166 | IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear |
| 167 | MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel |
| 168 | PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others. |
| 169 | |
| 170 | This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to |
| 171 | actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA |
| 172 | Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below. |
| 173 | |
| 174 | You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to |
| 175 | configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works : |
| 176 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html> |
| 177 | |
| 178 | config APPLE_AIRPORT |
| 179 | tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)" |
| 180 | depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES |
| 181 | help |
| 182 | Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware |
| 183 | built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based |
| 184 | Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with |
| 185 | a non-standard interface |
| 186 | |
| 187 | config PLX_HERMES |
| 188 | tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.) (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 189 | depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 190 | help |
| 191 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka |
| 192 | orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These |
| 193 | adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited |
| 194 | PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that |
| 195 | 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear |
| 196 | MA301 is such an adaptor. |
| 197 | |
| 198 | Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy. |
| 199 | You have been warned. |
| 200 | |
| 201 | config TMD_HERMES |
| 202 | tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 203 | depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 204 | help |
| 205 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka |
| 206 | orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These |
| 207 | adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited |
| 208 | PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that |
| 209 | 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. |
| 210 | |
| 211 | Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy. |
| 212 | You have been warned. |
| 213 | |
| 214 | config PCI_HERMES |
| 215 | tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
| 216 | depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 217 | help |
| 218 | Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on |
| 219 | the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b |
| 220 | PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also |
| 221 | common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of |
| 222 | this variety. |
| 223 | |
| 224 | config ATMEL |
| 225 | tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support" |
| 226 | depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 227 | select FW_LOADER |
| 228 | select CRC32 |
| 229 | ---help--- |
| 230 | A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet |
| 231 | chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions. |
| 232 | |
| 233 | Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory |
| 234 | and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is |
| 235 | one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image |
| 236 | to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel |
| 237 | firmware package can be downloaded from |
| 238 | <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel> |
| 239 | |
| 240 | config PCI_ATMEL |
| 241 | tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards" |
| 242 | depends on ATMEL && PCI |
| 243 | ---help--- |
| 244 | Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the |
| 245 | Atmel at76c506 chip. |
| 246 | |
| 247 | # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards... |
| 248 | comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support" |
| 249 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 250 | |
| 251 | config PCMCIA_HERMES |
| 252 | tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support" |
| 253 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES |
| 254 | ---help--- |
| 255 | A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such |
| 256 | as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/ |
| 257 | EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and |
| 258 | others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards |
| 259 | such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also |
| 260 | work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN. |
| 261 | |
| 262 | To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David |
| 263 | Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> |
| 264 | for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO, |
| 265 | available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| 266 | |
| 267 | You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to |
| 268 | configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works: |
| 269 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. |
| 270 | |
| 271 | config AIRO_CS |
| 272 | tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards" |
| 273 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA |
| 274 | ---help--- |
| 275 | This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA |
| 276 | 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet |
| 277 | driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package. |
| 278 | It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X |
| 279 | - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco |
| 280 | aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also |
| 281 | supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom |
| 282 | 802.11b cards. |
| 283 | |
| 284 | This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions |
| 285 | and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the |
| 286 | Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card. |
| 287 | |
| 288 | To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David |
| 289 | Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes> |
| 290 | for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO, |
| 291 | available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. |
| 292 | |
| 293 | config PCMCIA_ATMEL |
| 294 | tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards" |
| 295 | depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA |
| 296 | select FW_LOADER |
| 297 | select CRC32 |
| 298 | ---help--- |
| 299 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the |
| 300 | Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips. |
| 301 | |
| 302 | config PCMCIA_WL3501 |
| 303 | tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards" |
| 304 | depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA |
| 305 | ---help--- |
| 306 | A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet. |
| 307 | It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial |
| 308 | micro support for ethtool. |
| 309 | |
| 310 | comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support" |
| 311 | depends on NET_RADIO && PCI |
| 312 | config PRISM54 |
| 313 | tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus' |
| 314 | depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL |
| 315 | select FW_LOADER |
| 316 | ---help--- |
| 317 | Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards: |
| 318 | |
| 319 | ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g |
| 320 | ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a |
| 321 | ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g |
| 322 | |
| 323 | For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>. |
| 324 | Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards: |
| 325 | |
| 326 | 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 |
| 327 | Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card |
| 328 | Compex WL54G Cardbus Card |
| 329 | Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card |
| 330 | D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650 |
| 331 | I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card |
| 332 | Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card |
| 333 | Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card |
| 334 | Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card |
| 335 | Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card |
| 336 | Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card |
| 337 | Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card |
| 338 | SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card |
| 339 | SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card |
| 340 | SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card |
| 341 | Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card |
| 342 | Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card |
| 343 | |
| 344 | If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well. |
| 345 | You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890. |
| 346 | You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page: |
| 347 | <http://prism54.org> |
| 348 | You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from |
| 349 | a current hotplug package. |
| 350 | |
| 351 | Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards |
| 352 | |
| 353 | If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be |
| 354 | inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), |
| 355 | say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module |
| 356 | will be called prism54.ko. |
| 357 | |
| 358 | # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected |
| 359 | config NET_WIRELESS |
| 360 | bool |
| 361 | depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA) |
| 362 | default y |
| 363 | |
| 364 | endmenu |
| 365 | |