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- #
- # Wireless LAN device configuration
- #
- menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
- depends on NETDEVICES
- config NET_RADIO
- bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio)"
- 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 IPW_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.
- source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
- source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/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
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