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1#
2# Wireless LAN device configuration
3#
4
5menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
6 depends on NETDEVICES
7
8config 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# Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers
28# are not, as people are still using them...
29comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)"
30 depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA)
31
32config STRIP
33 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
34 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
35 ---help---
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.)
45
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
50 bigger.
51
52 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
53 called strip.
54
55config ARLAN
56 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
57 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
58 ---help---
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.
63
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.
66
67 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
68 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
69
70config WAVELAN
71 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
72 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
73 ---help---
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.
77
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>
81 for location).
82
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>.
89
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.
93
94 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
95 called wavelan.
96
97config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
98 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
99 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
100 help
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.
104
105 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
106 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
107
108config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
109 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
110 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
111 help
112 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
113 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
114
115 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
116 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
117
118comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
119 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
120
121config PCMCIA_RAYCS
122 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
123 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
124 ---help---
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
128 details.
129
130 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
131 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
132
133comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
134 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
135
136config IPW2100
137 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
138 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI && IEEE80211
139 select FW_LOADER
140 ---help---
141 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
142 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
143
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.
147
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 /etc/firmware.
152
153 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
154 configure your card:
155
156 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
157
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.
162
163config IPW2100_MONITOR
164 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
165 depends on IPW2100
166 ---help---
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.
171
172config IPW2100_DEBUG
173 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
174 depends on IPW2100
175 ---help---
176 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
177
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
180 value in
181
182 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
183
184 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
185
186 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
187 most likely want to say N here.
188
189config IPW2200
190 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
191 depends on NET_RADIO && IEEE80211 && PCI
192 select FW_LOADER
193 ---help---
194 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
195 Connection adapters.
196
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.
200
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.
205
206 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
207 configure your card:
208
209 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
210
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.
215
216config IPW2200_DEBUG
217 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
218 depends on IPW2200
219 ---help---
220 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
221
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
224 value in
225
226 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
227
228 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
229
230 To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
231
232 % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
233
234 You can find the list of debug mask values in
235 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
236
237 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
238 most likely want to say N here.
239
240config AIRO
241 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
242 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && CRYPTO && (PCI || BROKEN)
243 ---help---
244 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
245 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
246 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
247 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
248 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
249
250 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
251 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
252 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
253
254 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
255
256config HERMES
257 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
258 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
259 ---help---
260 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
261 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
262 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
263 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
264 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
265 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
266 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
267 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
268 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
269
270 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
271 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
272 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
273
274 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
275 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
276 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
277
278config APPLE_AIRPORT
279 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
280 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
281 help
282 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
283 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
284 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
285 a non-standard interface
286
287config PLX_HERMES
288 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
289 depends on PCI && HERMES
290 help
291 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
292 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
293 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
294 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
295 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
296 MA301 is such an adaptor.
297
298config TMD_HERMES
299 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
300 depends on PCI && HERMES
301 help
302 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
303 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
304 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
305 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
306 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
307
308config NORTEL_HERMES
309 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
310 depends on PCI && HERMES
311 help
312 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
313 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
314 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
315 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
316
317config PCI_HERMES
318 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
319 depends on PCI && HERMES
320 help
321 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
322 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
323 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
324 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
325 this variety.
326
327config ATMEL
328 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
329 depends on NET_RADIO
330 select FW_LOADER
331 select CRC32
332 ---help---
333 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
334 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
335
336 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
337 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
338 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
339 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
340 firmware package can be downloaded from
341 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
342
343config PCI_ATMEL
344 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
345 depends on ATMEL && PCI
346 ---help---
347 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
348 Atmel at76c506 chip.
349
350# If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
351comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
352 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
353
354config PCMCIA_HERMES
355 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
356 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
357 ---help---
358 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
359 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
360 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
361 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
362 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
363 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
364
365 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
366 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
367 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
368 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
369
370 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
371 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
372 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
373
374config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
375 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
376 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
377 ---help---
378
379 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
380 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
381 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
382
383 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
384 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
385 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
386
387config AIRO_CS
388 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
389 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
390 ---help---
391 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
392 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
393 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
394 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
395 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
396 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
397 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
398 802.11b cards.
399
400 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
401 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
402 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
403
404 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
405 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
406 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
407 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
408
409config PCMCIA_ATMEL
410 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
411 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
412 select FW_LOADER
413 select CRC32
414 ---help---
415 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
416 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
417
418config PCMCIA_WL3501
419 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
420 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
421 ---help---
422 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
423 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
424 micro support for ethtool.
425
426comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
427 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
428config PRISM54
429 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
430 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
431 select FW_LOADER
432 ---help---
433 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
434
435 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
436 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
437 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
438
439 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
440 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
441
442 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
443 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
444 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
445 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
446 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
447 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
448 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
449 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
450 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
451 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
452 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
453 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
454 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
455 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
456 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
457 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
458 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
459
460 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
461 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
462 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
463 <http://prism54.org>
464 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
465 a current hotplug package.
466
467 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
468
469 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
470 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
471 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
472 will be called prism54.ko.
473
474source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
475
476# yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
477config NET_WIRELESS
478 bool
479 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
480 default y
481
482endmenu
483