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 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
67 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
68 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
69 information is contained in
70 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
71 <file:drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h>.
73 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
74 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
75 Please read the man pages contained therein.
77 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
81 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
82 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
85 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
86 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
87 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
89 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
90 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
93 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
94 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
97 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
98 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
100 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
101 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
105 bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)"
106 depends on NETDEVICES
108 Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
110 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
111 lets you choose drivers.
114 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
115 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
118 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
119 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
120 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
123 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
124 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
127 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
128 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
133 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
134 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
136 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
137 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
138 for debugging issues and problems.
140 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
141 You can obtain the firmware from
142 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
143 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
145 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
148 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
150 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
151 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
152 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
153 The module will be called ipw2100.ko.
155 config IPW2100_MONITOR
156 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
159 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
160 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
161 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
162 mode, no packets can be sent.
165 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
168 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
170 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
171 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
174 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
176 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
178 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
179 most likely want to say N here.
182 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
183 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
188 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
191 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
192 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
193 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
195 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
196 You can obtain the firmware from
197 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
198 for information on where to install the firmware images.
200 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
203 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
205 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
206 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
207 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
208 The module will be called ipw2200.ko.
210 config IPW2200_MONITOR
211 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
214 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
215 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
216 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
217 mode, no packets can be sent.
219 config IPW2200_RADIOTAP
220 bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support"
221 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
223 config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
224 bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
225 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
226 select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
228 Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
229 This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
232 This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
233 maintaining an active association.
237 % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
241 If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
242 the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
245 % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
248 bool "Enable QoS support"
249 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
252 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
255 This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
257 Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
258 debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and
259 will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users
260 will typically not need this high verbosity debug information.
262 If you are not sure, say N here.
265 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support"
266 depends on WLAN_80211
271 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices.
274 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards"
275 depends on LIBERTAS && USB
277 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices.
280 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash 802.11b/g cards"
281 depends on LIBERTAS && PCMCIA && EXPERIMENTAL
284 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash devices.
287 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO 802.11b/g cards"
288 depends on LIBERTAS && MMC
290 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO devices.
292 config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
293 bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
299 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
300 depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN)
304 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
305 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
306 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
307 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
308 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
310 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
311 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
312 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
314 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
317 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
318 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
321 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
322 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
323 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
324 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
325 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
326 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
327 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
328 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
329 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
331 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
332 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
333 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
335 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
336 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
337 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
340 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
341 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
343 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
344 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
345 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
346 a non-standard interface.
348 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
349 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
352 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
353 depends on PCI && HERMES
355 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
356 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
357 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
358 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
359 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
360 MA301 is such an adaptor.
363 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
364 depends on PCI && HERMES
366 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
367 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
368 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
369 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
370 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
373 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
374 depends on PCI && HERMES
376 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
377 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
378 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
379 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
382 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
383 depends on PCI && HERMES
385 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
386 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
387 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
388 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
392 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
393 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
395 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
396 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
397 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
398 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
399 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
400 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
402 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
403 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
404 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
406 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
407 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
408 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
412 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
413 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
414 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
416 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
417 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
418 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
421 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
422 depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
427 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
428 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
430 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
431 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
432 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
433 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
434 firmware package can be downloaded from
435 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
438 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
439 depends on ATMEL && PCI
441 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
445 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
446 depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA
451 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
452 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
455 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
456 depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211
461 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
462 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
463 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
464 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
465 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
466 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
467 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
470 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
471 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
472 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
475 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
476 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
479 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
480 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
481 micro support for ethtool.
484 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
485 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211
489 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
491 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
492 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
493 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
495 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
496 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
498 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
499 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
500 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
501 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
502 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
503 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
504 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
505 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
506 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
507 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
508 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
509 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
510 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
511 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
512 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
513 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
514 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
516 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
517 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
518 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
520 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
521 a current hotplug package.
523 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
525 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
526 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
527 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
528 The module will be called prism54.ko.
531 tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
532 depends on USB && WLAN_80211
536 Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
539 This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
542 The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
543 This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
545 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
546 module will be called zd1201.
549 tristate "Realtek 8180/8185 PCI support"
550 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
553 This is a driver for RTL8180 and RTL8185 based cards.
554 These are PCI based chips found in cards such as:
568 Ovislink AirLive WL-1120PCM
583 Siemens-fujitsu Amilo D1840W
591 Topcom Skyr@cer 4011b
592 Roper FreeLan 802.11b (edition 2004)
593 Wistron Neweb Corp CB-200B
596 TwinMOS Booming B Series
602 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
605 tristate "Realtek 8187 USB support"
606 depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
609 This is a driver for RTL8187 based cards.
610 These are USB based chips found in cards such as:
614 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
617 tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support"
618 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
622 This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards.
623 These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as:
625 Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b
626 Blitz NetWave Point PC
632 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796)
635 D-Link DWL-520 Revision C
637 However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips
638 like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or
639 the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change.
641 Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver.
644 tristate "Softmac Prism54 support"
645 depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && FW_LOADER && EXPERIMENTAL
647 This is common code for isl38xx based cards.
648 This module does nothing by itself - the USB/PCI frontends
649 also need to be enabled in order to support any devices.
651 These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at
654 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54common.
657 tristate "Prism54 USB support"
658 depends on P54_COMMON && USB
661 This driver is for USB isl38xx based wireless cards.
662 These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
666 Accton 802.11g WN4501 USB
670 Medion 40900, Roper Europe
671 Shuttle PN15, Airvast WM168g, IOGear GWU513
673 Linksys WUSB54G Portable
674 DLink DWL-G120 Spinnaker
676 Belkin F5D7050 ver 1000
678 SMC 2862W-G version 2
679 U.S. Robotics U5 802.11g Adapter
680 FUJITSU E-5400 USB D1700
682 DLink DWL-G120 Cohiba
683 Spinnaker Proto board
688 These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at
691 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54usb.
694 tristate "Prism54 PCI support"
695 depends on P54_COMMON && PCI
697 This driver is for PCI isl38xx based wireless cards.
698 This driver supports most devices that are supported by the
699 fullmac prism54 driver plus many devices which are not
700 supported by the fullmac driver/firmware.
702 This driver requires softmac firmware which can be found at
705 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54pci.
708 tristate "Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support"
709 depends on PCI && MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
711 This module adds support for wireless adapters based on
712 Atheros 5xxx chipset.
714 Currently the following chip versions are supported:
717 PHY: RF5111/2111 RF5112/2112 RF5413/2413
719 This driver uses the kernel's mac80211 subsystem.
721 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called ath5k. Say M if
724 source "drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig"
725 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
726 source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
727 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig"
728 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig"
729 source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"
730 source "drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig"