2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
9 bool "Wireless LAN (pre-802.11)"
12 Say Y if you have any pre-802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
14 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
15 lets you choose drivers.
18 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
19 depends on INET && WLAN_PRE80211
22 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
23 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
24 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
25 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
26 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
27 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
28 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
29 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
30 phone line and use it as a modem.)
32 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
33 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
34 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
35 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
38 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
42 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
43 depends on ISA && !64BIT && WLAN_PRE80211
46 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
47 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
48 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
49 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
51 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
52 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
54 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
55 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
58 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
59 depends on ISA && WLAN_PRE80211
62 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
63 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
64 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
66 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
67 driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
68 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
71 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
72 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
73 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
74 information is contained in
75 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
76 <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
78 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
79 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
80 Please read the man pages contained therein.
82 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
86 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
87 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
90 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
91 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
92 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
94 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
95 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
98 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
99 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
102 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
103 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
105 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
106 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
110 bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)"
111 depends on NETDEVICES
113 Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
115 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
116 lets you choose drivers.
119 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
120 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
123 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
124 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
125 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
128 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
129 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
132 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
133 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
138 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
139 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
141 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
142 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
143 for debugging issues and problems.
145 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
146 You can obtain the firmware from
147 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
148 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
150 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
153 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
155 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
156 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
157 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
158 The module will be called ipw2100.ko.
160 config IPW2100_MONITOR
161 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
164 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
165 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
166 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
167 mode, no packets can be sent.
170 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
173 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
175 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
176 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
179 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
181 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
183 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
184 most likely want to say N here.
187 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
188 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
193 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
196 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
197 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
198 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
200 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
201 You can obtain the firmware from
202 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
203 for information on where to install the firmware images.
205 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
208 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
210 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
211 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
212 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
213 The module will be called ipw2200.ko.
215 config IPW2200_MONITOR
216 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
219 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
220 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
221 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
222 mode, no packets can be sent.
224 config IPW2200_RADIOTAP
225 bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support"
226 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
228 config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
229 bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
230 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
231 select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
233 Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
234 This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
237 This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
238 maintaining an active association.
242 % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
246 If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
247 the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
250 % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
253 bool "Enable QoS support"
254 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
257 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
260 This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
262 Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
263 debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and
264 will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users
265 will typically not need this high verbosity debug information.
267 If you are not sure, say N here.
270 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support"
271 depends on WLAN_80211
275 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices.
278 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards"
279 depends on LIBERTAS && USB
281 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices.
283 config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
284 bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
290 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
291 depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN)
295 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
296 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
297 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
298 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
299 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
301 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
302 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
303 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
305 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
308 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
309 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
312 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
313 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
314 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
315 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
316 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
317 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
318 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
319 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
320 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
322 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
323 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
324 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
326 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
327 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
328 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
331 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
332 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
334 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
335 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
336 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
337 a non-standard interface.
339 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
340 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
343 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
344 depends on PCI && HERMES
346 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
347 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
348 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
349 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
350 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
351 MA301 is such an adaptor.
354 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
355 depends on PCI && HERMES
357 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
358 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
359 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
360 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
361 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
364 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
365 depends on PCI && HERMES
367 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
368 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
369 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
370 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
373 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
374 depends on PCI && HERMES
376 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
377 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
378 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
379 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
383 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
384 depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
389 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
390 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
392 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
393 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
394 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
395 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
396 firmware package can be downloaded from
397 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
400 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
401 depends on ATMEL && PCI
403 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
407 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
408 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
410 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
411 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
412 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
413 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
414 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
415 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
417 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
418 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
419 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
420 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
422 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
423 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
424 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
426 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
427 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
428 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
432 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
433 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
434 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
436 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
437 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
438 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
441 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
442 depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211
447 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
448 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
449 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
450 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
451 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
452 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
453 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
456 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
457 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
458 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
460 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
461 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
462 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
463 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
466 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
467 depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA
472 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
473 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
476 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
477 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
480 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
481 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
482 micro support for ethtool.
485 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
486 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211
490 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
492 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
493 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
494 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
496 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
497 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
499 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
500 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
501 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
502 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
503 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
504 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
505 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
506 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
507 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
508 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
509 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
510 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
511 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
512 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
513 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
514 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
515 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
517 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
518 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
519 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
521 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
522 a current hotplug package.
524 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
526 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
527 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
528 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
529 The module will be called prism54.ko.
532 tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
533 depends on USB && WLAN_80211
537 Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
540 This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
543 The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
544 This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
546 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
547 module will be called zd1201.
550 tristate "Realtek 8187 USB support"
551 depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
554 This is a driver for RTL8187 based cards.
555 These are USB based chips found in cards such as:
559 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
561 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
562 source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
563 source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"