2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
5 menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
9 bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions"
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.
266 config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
267 bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface."
269 select IEEE80211_RADIOTAP
271 Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
272 This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
275 This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
276 maintaining an active association.
280 % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
284 If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
285 the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
288 % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
291 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
292 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA_DMA_API && (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 NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
311 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
312 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
313 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
314 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
315 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
316 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
317 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
318 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
319 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
321 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
322 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
323 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
325 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
326 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
327 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
330 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
331 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
333 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
334 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
335 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
336 a non-standard interface.
338 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
339 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
342 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
343 depends on PCI && HERMES
345 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
346 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
347 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
348 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
349 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
350 MA301 is such an adaptor.
353 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
354 depends on PCI && HERMES
356 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
357 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
358 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
359 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
360 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
363 tristate "Nortel emobility 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 Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
368 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
369 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
372 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
373 depends on PCI && HERMES
375 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
376 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
377 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
378 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
382 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
383 depends on NET_RADIO && (PCI || PCMCIA)
387 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
388 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
390 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
391 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
392 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
393 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
394 firmware package can be downloaded from
395 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
398 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
399 depends on ATMEL && PCI
401 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
404 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
405 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
406 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
409 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
410 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
412 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
413 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
414 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
415 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
416 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
417 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
419 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
420 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
421 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
422 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
424 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
425 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
426 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
428 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
429 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
430 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
434 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
435 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
436 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
438 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
439 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
440 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
443 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
444 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R)
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 NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
471 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
472 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
475 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
476 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
478 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
479 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
480 micro support for ethtool.
482 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
483 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
485 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
486 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
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/modules.txt>. The module
528 will be called prism54.ko.
530 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
531 source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
533 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
536 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)