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"
32 Support the Wireless Extension API over the RtNetlink socket
33 in addition to the traditional ioctl interface (selected above).
35 For now, few tools use this facility, but it might grow in the
36 future. The only downside is that it adds 4.5 kB to your kernel.
38 # Note : the cards are obsolete (can't buy them anymore), but the drivers
39 # are not, as people are still using them...
40 comment "Obsolete Wireless cards support (pre-802.11)"
41 depends on NET_RADIO && (INET || ISA || PCMCIA)
44 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
45 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
47 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
48 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
49 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
50 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
51 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
52 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
53 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
54 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
55 phone line and use it as a modem.)
57 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
58 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
59 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
60 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
63 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
67 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
68 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
70 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
71 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
72 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
73 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
75 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
76 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
78 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
79 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
82 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
83 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
85 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
86 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
87 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
89 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
90 driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
91 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
94 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
95 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
96 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
97 information is contained in
98 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
99 <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
101 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
102 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
103 Please read the man pages contained therein.
105 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
108 config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
109 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
110 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
112 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
113 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
114 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
116 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
117 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
119 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
120 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
121 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
123 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
124 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
126 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
127 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
129 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
130 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
133 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
134 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
136 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
137 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
138 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
141 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
142 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
144 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
145 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
148 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
149 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
153 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
154 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
156 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
157 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
158 for debugging issues and problems.
160 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
161 You can obtain the firmware from
162 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
163 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
165 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
168 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
170 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
171 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
172 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
173 will be called ipw2100.ko.
175 config IPW2100_MONITOR
176 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
179 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
180 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
181 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
182 mode, no packets can be sent.
185 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
188 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
190 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
191 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
194 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
196 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
198 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
199 most likely want to say N here.
202 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
203 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
207 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
210 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
211 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
212 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
214 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
215 You can obtain the firmware from
216 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
217 for information on where to install the firmware images.
219 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
222 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
224 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
225 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
226 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
227 will be called ipw2200.ko.
229 config IPW2200_MONITOR
230 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
233 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
234 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
235 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
236 mode, no packets can be sent.
239 bool "Enable QoS support"
240 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
243 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
246 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
248 This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can
249 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
252 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
254 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
256 To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
258 % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
260 You can find the list of debug mask values in
261 drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
263 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
264 most likely want to say N here.
267 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
268 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && (PCI || BROKEN)
271 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
272 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
273 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
274 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
275 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
277 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
278 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
279 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
281 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
284 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
285 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
287 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
288 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
289 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
290 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
291 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
292 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
293 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
294 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
295 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
297 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
298 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
299 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
301 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
302 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
303 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
306 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
307 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
309 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
310 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
311 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
312 a non-standard interface.
314 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
315 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
318 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
319 depends on PCI && HERMES
321 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
322 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
323 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
324 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
325 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
326 MA301 is such an adaptor.
329 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
330 depends on PCI && HERMES
332 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
333 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
334 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
335 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
336 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
339 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
340 depends on PCI && HERMES
342 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
343 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
344 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
345 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
348 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
349 depends on PCI && HERMES
351 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
352 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
353 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
354 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
358 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
363 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
364 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
366 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
367 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
368 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
369 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
370 firmware package can be downloaded from
371 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
374 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
375 depends on ATMEL && PCI
377 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
380 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
381 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
382 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
385 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
386 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
388 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
389 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
390 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
391 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
392 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
393 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
395 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
396 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
397 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
398 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
400 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
401 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
402 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
404 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
405 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
406 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
410 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
411 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
412 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
414 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
415 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
416 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
419 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
420 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
423 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
424 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
425 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
426 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
427 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
428 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
429 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
432 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
433 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
434 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
436 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
437 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
438 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
439 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
442 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
443 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
447 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
448 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
451 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
452 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
454 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
455 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
456 micro support for ethtool.
458 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
459 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
461 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
462 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
465 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
467 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
468 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
469 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
471 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
472 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
474 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
475 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
476 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
477 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
478 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
479 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
480 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
481 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
482 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
483 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
484 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
485 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
486 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
487 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
488 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
489 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
490 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
492 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
493 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
494 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
496 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
497 a current hotplug package.
499 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
501 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
502 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
503 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
504 will be called prism54.ko.
506 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
507 source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
509 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
512 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)