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|  | 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 |  | 
|  | 326 | 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 | 
|  | 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 |  |