2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
5 menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
9 bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio)"
12 Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio,
13 but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting.
15 Saying Y here also enables the Wireless Extensions (creates
16 /proc/net/wireless and enables iwconfig access). The Wireless
17 Extension is a generic API allowing a driver to expose to the user
18 space configuration and statistics specific to common Wireless LANs.
19 The beauty of it is that a single set of tool can support all the
20 variations of Wireless LANs, regardless of their type (as long as
21 the driver supports Wireless Extension). Another advantage is that
22 these parameters may be changed on the fly without restarting the
23 driver (or Linux). If you wish to use Wireless Extensions with
24 wireless PCMCIA (PC-) cards, you need to say Y here; you can fetch
26 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
28 config NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK
29 bool "Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink"
31 Support the Wireless Extension API over the RtNetlink socket
32 in addition to the traditional ioctl interface (selected above).
34 For now, few tools use this facility, but it might grow in the
35 future. The only downside is that it adds 4.5 kB to your kernel.
37 # Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers
38 # are not, as people are still using them...
39 comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)"
40 depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA)
43 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
44 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
46 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
47 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
48 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
49 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
50 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
51 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
52 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
53 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
54 phone line and use it as a modem.)
56 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
57 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
58 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
59 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
62 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
66 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
67 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
69 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
70 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
71 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
72 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
74 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
75 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
77 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
78 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
81 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
82 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
84 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
85 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
86 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
88 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
89 driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
90 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
93 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
94 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
95 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
96 information is contained in
97 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
98 <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
100 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
101 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
102 Please read the man pages contained therein.
104 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
107 config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
108 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
109 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
111 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
112 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
113 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
115 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
116 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
118 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
119 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
120 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
122 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
123 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
125 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
126 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
128 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
129 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
132 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
133 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
135 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
136 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
137 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
140 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
141 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
143 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
144 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
147 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
148 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
152 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
153 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
155 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
156 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
157 for debugging issues and problems.
159 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
160 You can obtain the firmware from
161 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
162 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
164 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
167 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
169 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
170 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
171 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
172 will be called ipw2100.ko.
174 config IPW2100_MONITOR
175 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
178 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
179 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
180 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
181 mode, no packets can be sent.
184 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
187 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
189 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
190 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
193 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
195 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
197 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
198 most likely want to say N here.
201 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
202 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
206 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
209 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
210 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
211 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
213 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
214 You can obtain the firmware from
215 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
216 for information on where to install the firmware images.
218 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
221 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
223 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
224 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
225 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
226 will be called ipw2200.ko.
228 config IPW2200_MONITOR
229 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
232 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
233 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
234 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
235 mode, no packets can be sent.
238 bool "Enable QoS support"
239 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
242 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
245 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
247 This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can
248 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
251 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
253 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
255 To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
257 % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
259 You can find the list of debug mask values in
260 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
262 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
263 most likely want to say N here.
266 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
267 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && (PCI || BROKEN)
270 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
271 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
272 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
273 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
274 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
276 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
277 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
278 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
280 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
283 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
284 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
286 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
287 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
288 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
289 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
290 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
291 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
292 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
293 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
294 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
296 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
297 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
298 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
300 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
301 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
302 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
305 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
306 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
308 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
309 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
310 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
311 a non-standard interface
314 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
315 depends on PCI && HERMES
317 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
318 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
319 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
320 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
321 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
322 MA301 is such an adaptor.
325 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
326 depends on PCI && HERMES
328 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
329 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
330 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
331 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
332 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
335 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
336 depends on PCI && HERMES
338 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
339 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
340 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
341 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
344 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
345 depends on PCI && HERMES
347 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
348 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
349 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
350 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
354 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
359 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
360 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
362 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
363 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
364 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
365 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
366 firmware package can be downloaded from
367 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
370 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
371 depends on ATMEL && PCI
373 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
376 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
377 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
378 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
381 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
382 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
384 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
385 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
386 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
387 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
388 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
389 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
391 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
392 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
393 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
394 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
396 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
397 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
398 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
400 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
401 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
402 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
405 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
406 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
407 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
409 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
410 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
411 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
414 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
415 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
418 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
419 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
420 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
421 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
422 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
423 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
424 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
427 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
428 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
429 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
431 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
432 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
433 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
434 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
437 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
438 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
442 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
443 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
446 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
447 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
449 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
450 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
451 micro support for ethtool.
453 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
454 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
456 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
457 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
460 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
462 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
463 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
464 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
466 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
467 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
469 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
470 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
471 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
472 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
473 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
474 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
475 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
476 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
477 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
478 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
479 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
480 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
481 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
482 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
483 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
484 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
485 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
487 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
488 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
489 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
491 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
492 a current hotplug package.
494 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
496 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
497 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
498 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
499 will be called prism54.ko.
501 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
503 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
506 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)