2 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
3 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
8 select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC
10 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
11 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
12 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
13 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
14 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
15 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
16 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
17 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
18 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
20 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
21 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
22 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
24 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
25 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
26 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
28 config HERMES_CACHE_FW_ON_INIT
29 bool "Cache Hermes firmware on driver initialisation"
33 Say Y to cache any firmware required by the Hermes drivers
34 on startup. The firmware will remain cached until the
35 driver is unloaded. The cache uses 64K of RAM.
37 Otherwise load the firmware from userspace as required. In
38 this case the driver should be unloaded and restarted
39 whenever the firmware is changed.
41 If you are not sure, say Y.
44 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
45 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
47 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
48 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
49 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
50 a non-standard interface.
52 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
53 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
56 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
57 depends on PCI && HERMES
59 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
60 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
61 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
62 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
63 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
64 MA301 is such an adaptor.
67 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
68 depends on PCI && HERMES
70 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
71 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
72 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
73 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
74 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
77 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
78 depends on PCI && HERMES
80 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
81 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
82 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
83 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
86 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
87 depends on PCI && HERMES
89 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
90 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
91 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
92 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
96 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
97 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
99 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
100 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
101 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
102 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
103 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
104 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
106 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
107 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
108 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
110 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
111 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
112 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
115 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
116 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
117 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
119 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
120 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
121 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>