2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
5 menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
9 bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions"
11 Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio,
12 but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting.
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
25 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
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/>.
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)
37 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
38 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
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.)
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
56 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
60 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
61 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
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.
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.
71 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
72 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
75 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
76 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
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.
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>
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>.
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.
98 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
101 config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
102 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
103 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
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.
109 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
110 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
112 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
113 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
114 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
116 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
117 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
119 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
120 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
122 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
123 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
126 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
127 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
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
134 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
135 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
137 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
138 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
141 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
142 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && (PCI || BROKEN)
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).
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.
154 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
157 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
158 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
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.
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.
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>
179 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
180 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
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
188 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
189 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
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.
198 Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
199 You have been warned.
202 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
203 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
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.
211 Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
212 You have been warned.
215 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
216 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
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
225 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
226 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
230 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
231 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
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>
241 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
242 depends on ATMEL && PCI
244 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
247 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
248 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
249 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
252 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
253 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
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.
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>.
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>.
272 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
273 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
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
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.
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>.
294 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
295 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
299 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
300 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
303 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
304 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
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.
310 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
311 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
313 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
314 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
317 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
319 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
320 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
321 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
323 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
324 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
326 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
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
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:
348 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
349 a current hotplug package.
351 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
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.
358 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
361 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)