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 "RTLink wireless CardBus support"
41 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
42 depends on NET_RADIO && INET
44 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
45 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
46 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
47 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
48 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
49 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
50 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
51 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
52 phone line and use it as a modem.)
54 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
55 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
56 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
57 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
60 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
64 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
65 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
67 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
68 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
69 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
70 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
72 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
73 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
75 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
76 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
79 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
80 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
82 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
83 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
84 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
86 This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card. A separate
87 driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
88 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
91 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
92 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
93 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
94 information is contained in
95 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
96 <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
98 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
99 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
100 Please read the man pages contained therein.
102 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
105 config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
106 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
107 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
109 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
110 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
111 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
113 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
114 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
116 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
117 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
118 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
120 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
121 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
123 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
124 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
126 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
127 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
130 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
131 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
133 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
134 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
135 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
138 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
139 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
141 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
142 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
145 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
146 depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && (PCI || BROKEN)
148 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
149 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
150 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
151 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
152 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
154 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
155 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
156 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
158 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
161 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
162 depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
164 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
165 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
166 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
167 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
168 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
169 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
170 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
171 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
172 PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
174 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
175 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
176 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
178 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
179 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
180 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
183 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
184 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
186 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
187 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
188 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
189 a non-standard interface
192 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
193 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
195 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
196 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
197 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
198 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
199 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
200 MA301 is such an adaptor.
202 Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
203 You have been warned.
206 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
207 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
209 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
210 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
211 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
212 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
213 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
215 Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
216 You have been warned.
219 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
220 depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
222 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
223 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
224 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
225 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
229 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
230 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
234 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
235 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
237 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
238 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
239 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
240 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
241 firmware package can be downloaded from
242 http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel
245 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
246 depends on ATMEL && PCI
248 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
251 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
252 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
253 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
256 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
257 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
259 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
260 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
261 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
262 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
263 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
264 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
266 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
267 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
268 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
269 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
271 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
272 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
273 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
276 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
277 depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
279 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
280 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
281 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
282 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
283 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
284 aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
285 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
288 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
289 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
290 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
292 To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
293 Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
294 for location). You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
295 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
298 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
299 depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
303 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
304 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
307 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
308 depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
310 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
311 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
312 micro support for ethtool.
314 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
315 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
317 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
318 depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && HOTPLUG
321 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
323 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
324 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
325 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
327 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
328 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
330 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72
331 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
332 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
333 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
334 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
335 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
336 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
337 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
338 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
339 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
340 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
341 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
342 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
343 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
344 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
345 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
346 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
348 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
349 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
350 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
352 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
353 a current hotplug package.
355 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
357 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
358 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
359 say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>. The module
360 will be called prism54.ko.
362 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
365 depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)