2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
5 menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
9 bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions"
11 Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio,
12 but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting.
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
25 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
27 # Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers
28 # are not, as people are still using them...
29 comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)"
30 depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA)
33 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
34 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
36 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
37 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
38 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
39 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
40 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
41 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
42 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
43 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
44 phone line and use it as a modem.)
46 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
47 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
48 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
49 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
52 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
56 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
57 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
59 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
60 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
61 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
62 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
64 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
65 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
67 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
68 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
71 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
72 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
74 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
75 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
76 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
78 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
79 driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
80 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
83 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
84 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
85 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
86 information is contained in
87 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
88 <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
90 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
91 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
92 Please read the man pages contained therein.
94 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
98 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
99 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
101 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
102 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
103 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
105 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
106 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
108 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
109 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
110 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
112 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
113 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
115 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
116 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
118 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
119 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
122 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
123 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
125 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
126 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
127 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
130 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
131 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
133 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
134 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
137 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
138 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI && IEEE80211
141 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
142 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
144 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
145 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
146 for debugging issues and problems.
148 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
149 You can obtain the firmware from
150 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
151 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
153 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
156 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
158 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
159 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
160 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
161 will be called ipw2100.ko.
163 config IPW2100_MONITOR
164 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
167 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
168 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
169 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
170 mode, no packets can be sent.
173 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
176 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
178 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
179 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
182 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
184 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
186 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
187 most likely want to say N here.
190 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
191 depends on NET_RADIO && IEEE80211 && PCI
194 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
197 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
198 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
199 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
201 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
202 You can obtain the firmware from
203 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
204 for information on where to install the firmare images.
206 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
209 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
211 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
212 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
213 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
214 will be called ipw2200.ko.
217 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
220 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
222 This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can
223 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
226 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
228 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
230 To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
232 % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
234 You can find the list of debug mask values in
235 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
237 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
238 most likely want to say N here.
241 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
242 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && (PCI || BROKEN)
245 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
246 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
247 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
248 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
249 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
251 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
252 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
253 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
255 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
258 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
259 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
261 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
262 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
263 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
264 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
265 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
266 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
267 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
268 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
269 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
271 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
272 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
273 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
275 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
276 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
277 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
280 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
281 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
283 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
284 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
285 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
286 a non-standard interface
289 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
290 depends on PCI && HERMES
292 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
293 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
294 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
295 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
296 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
297 MA301 is such an adaptor.
300 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
301 depends on PCI && HERMES
303 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
304 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
305 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
306 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
307 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
310 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
311 depends on PCI && HERMES
313 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
314 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
315 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
316 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
319 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
320 depends on PCI && HERMES
322 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
323 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
324 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
325 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
329 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
334 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
335 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
337 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
338 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
339 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
340 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
341 firmware package can be downloaded from
342 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
345 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
346 depends on ATMEL && PCI
348 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
351 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
352 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
353 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
356 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
357 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
359 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
360 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
361 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
362 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
363 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
364 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
366 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
367 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
368 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
369 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
371 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
372 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
373 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
375 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
376 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
377 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
381 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
382 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
383 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
385 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
386 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
387 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
390 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
391 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
394 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
395 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
396 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
397 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
398 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
399 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
400 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
403 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
404 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
405 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
407 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
408 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
409 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
410 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
413 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
414 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
418 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
419 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
422 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
423 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
425 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
426 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
427 micro support for ethtool.
429 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
430 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
432 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
433 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
436 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
438 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
439 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
440 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
442 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
443 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
445 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
446 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
447 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
448 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
449 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
450 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
451 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
452 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
453 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
454 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
455 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
456 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
457 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
458 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
459 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
460 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
461 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
463 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
464 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
465 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
467 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
468 a current hotplug package.
470 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
472 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
473 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
474 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
475 will be called prism54.ko.
477 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
479 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
482 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)