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.
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)"
config IPW2100
tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
- depends on NET_RADIO && PCI && IEEE80211
+ 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.
config IPW2200
tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
- depends on NET_RADIO && IEEE80211 && PCI
+ depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
select FW_LOADER
+ select IEEE80211
---help---
A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
Connection adapters.
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 firmare images.
+ for information on where to install the firmware images.
You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
configure your card:
say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
will be called ipw2200.ko.
-config IPW2200_DEBUG
- bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
- depends on IPW2200
+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---
- This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
+ Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
+ This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
+ format.
- 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
+ This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
+ maintaining an active association.
- /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
+ Example usage:
- This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
+ % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
+ % ifconfig rtap0 up
+ % tethereal -i rtap0
- To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
+ 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
- % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
+config IPW2200_QOS
+ bool "Enable QoS support"
+ depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
- You can find the list of debug mask values in
- drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
+config IPW2200_DEBUG
+ bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
+ depends on IPW2200
+ ---help---
+ This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
- If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
- most likely want to say N here.
+ Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
+ debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and
+ will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users
+ will typically not need this high verbosity debug information.
+
+ If you are not sure, say N here.
config AIRO
tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
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
- aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
+ 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
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
+ A driver for 802.11b wireless cards 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
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
+ 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.)"
config ATMEL
tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
- depends on NET_RADIO
+ depends on NET_RADIO && (PCI || PCMCIA)
select FW_LOADER
select CRC32
---help---
tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
select CRYPTO
+ select CRYPTO_AES
---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
- aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
+ acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
802.11b cards.
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
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