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1 | # |
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 | ||
c8920ba0 | 326 | 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1) |
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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 |