1 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
3 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
4 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
6 select CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT
12 select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC
14 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
15 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
16 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
17 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
18 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
19 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
20 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
21 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
22 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
24 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
25 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
26 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
28 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
29 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
30 <https://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
33 bool "Support Prism 2/2.5 chipset"
37 Say Y to enable support for Prism 2 and 2.5 chipsets. These
38 chipsets are better handled by the hostap driver. This driver
39 would not support WPA or firmware download for Prism chipset.
41 If you are not sure, say N.
43 config HERMES_CACHE_FW_ON_INIT
44 bool "Cache Hermes firmware on driver initialisation"
48 Say Y to cache any firmware required by the Hermes drivers
49 on startup. The firmware will remain cached until the
50 driver is unloaded. The cache uses 64K of RAM.
52 Otherwise load the firmware from userspace as required. In
53 this case the driver should be unloaded and restarted
54 whenever the firmware is changed.
56 If you are not sure, say Y.
59 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
60 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
62 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
63 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
64 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
65 a non-standard interface.
67 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
68 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
71 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
72 depends on PCI && HERMES
74 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
75 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
76 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
77 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
78 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
79 MA301 is such an adaptor.
82 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
83 depends on PCI && HERMES
85 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
86 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
87 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
88 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
89 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
92 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
93 depends on PCI && HERMES
95 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
96 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
97 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
98 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
101 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
102 depends on PCI && HERMES && HERMES_PRISM
104 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
105 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
106 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
107 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
111 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
112 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
114 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
115 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
116 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
117 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
118 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
119 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
121 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
122 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
123 <https://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
125 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
126 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
127 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP
130 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
131 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
132 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
134 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
135 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
136 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
139 tristate "Agere Orinoco USB support"
140 depends on USB && HERMES
143 This driver is for USB versions of the Agere Orinoco card.