drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig

   1 #
   2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
   3 #
   4
   5 menu "Wireless LAN (non-hamradio)"
   6         depends on NETDEVICES
   7
   8 config NET_RADIO
   9         bool "Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions"
  10         ---help---
  11           Support for wireless LANs and everything having to do with radio,
  12           but not with amateur radio or FM broadcasting.
  13
  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
  24           the tools from
  25           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
  26
  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/>.
  30
  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)
  35
  36 config STRIP
  37         tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
  38         depends on NET_RADIO && INET
  39         ---help---
  40           Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
  41           IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
  42           (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
  43           traffic using Metricom radios.  Metricom radios are small, battery
  44           powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
  45           weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
  46           "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
  47           many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
  48           phone line and use it as a modem.)
  49
  50           You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
  51           it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
  52           think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
  53           in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
  54           bigger.
  55
  56           To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  57           called strip.
  58
  59 config ARLAN
  60         tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
  61         depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && !64BIT
  62         ---help---
  63           Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
  64           www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
  65           This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
  66           <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
  67
  68           The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
  69           is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
  70
  71           On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
  72           time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
  73
  74 config WAVELAN
  75         tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
  76         depends on NET_RADIO && ISA
  77         ---help---
  78           The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
  79           a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
  80           radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
  81
  82           This driver support the ISA version of the WaveLAN card.  A separate
  83           driver for the PCMCIA (PC-card) hardware is available in David
  84           Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
  85           for location).
  86
  87           If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
  88           the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
  89           <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
  90           information is contained in
  91           <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
  92           <file:drivers/net/wavelan.p.h>.
  93
  94           You will also need the wireless tools package available from
  95           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
  96           Please read the man pages contained therein.
  97
  98           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
  99           called wavelan.
 100
 101 config PCMCIA_WAVELAN
 102         tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
 103         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 104         help
 105           Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
 106           (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.  This
 107           driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
 108
 109           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
 110           called wavelan_cs.  If unsure, say N.
 111
 112 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
 113         tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
 114         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 115         help
 116           Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
 117           wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
 118
 119           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
 120           called netwave_cs.  If unsure, say N.
 121
 122 comment "Wireless 802.11 Frequency Hopping cards support"
 123         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 124
 125 config PCMCIA_RAYCS
 126         tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
 127         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 128         ---help---
 129           Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
 130           (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
 131           Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
 132           details.
 133
 134           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
 135           called ray_cs.  If unsure, say N.
 136
 137 comment "Wireless 802.11b ISA/PCI cards support"
 138         depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
 139
 140 config IPW2100
 141         tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
 142         depends on NET_RADIO && PCI && IEEE80211
 143         select FW_LOADER
 144         ---help---
 145           A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
 146           Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
 147
 148           See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
 149           the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
 150           for debugging issues and problems.
 151
 152           In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
 153           You can obtain the firmware from
 154           <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>.  Once you have the firmware image, you
 155           will need to place it in /etc/firmware.
 156
 157           You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
 158           configure your card:
 159
 160           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
 161
 162           If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
 163           inserted in and remvoed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 164           say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module
 165           will be called ipw2100.ko.
 166
 167 config IPW2100_PROMISC
 168         bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
 169         depends on IPW2100
 170         ---help---
 171           Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
 172           With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
 173           promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode.  While in this
 174           mode, no packets can be sent.
 175
 176 config IPW_DEBUG
 177         bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
 178         depends on IPW2100
 179         ---help---
 180           This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
 181
 182           This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger.  You can
 183           control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
 184           value in
 185
 186           /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
 187
 188           This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
 189
 190           If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
 191           most likely want to say N here.
 192
 193 config IPW2200
 194         tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
 195         depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
 196         select FW_LOADER
 197         select IEEE80211
 198         ---help---
 199           A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
 200           Connection adapters.
 201
 202           See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
 203           information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
 204           driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
 205
 206           In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
 207           You can obtain the firmware from
 208           <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>.  See the above referenced README.ipw2200
 209           for information on where to install the firmare images.
 210
 211           You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
 212           configure your card:
 213
 214           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
 215
 216           If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
 217           inserted in and remvoed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 218           say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module
 219           will be called ipw2200.ko.
 220
 221 config IPW_DEBUG
 222         bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
 223         depends on IPW2200
 224         ---help---
 225           This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2200.
 226
 227           This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger.  You can
 228           control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
 229           value in
 230
 231           /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
 232
 233           This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
 234
 235           To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file:
 236
 237           % echo 0x00000FFO > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/debug_level
 238
 239           You can find the list of debug mask values in
 240           drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.h
 241
 242           If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2200 driver, you
 243           most likely want to say N here.
 244
 245 config AIRO
 246         tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
 247         depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && (PCI || BROKEN)
 248         ---help---
 249           This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
 250           PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
 251           It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
 252           - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
 253           aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
 254
 255           This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
 256           and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
 257           Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
 258
 259           The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
 260
 261 config HERMES
 262         tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
 263         depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
 264         ---help---
 265           A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
 266           Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller.  This includes the vast
 267           majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
 268           - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards.  Cards supported include the
 269           Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
 270           Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
 271           IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
 272           MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
 273           PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
 274
 275           This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
 276           actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
 277           Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
 278
 279           You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
 280           configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
 281           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
 282
 283 config APPLE_AIRPORT
 284         tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
 285         depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
 286         help
 287           Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
 288           built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
 289           Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
 290           a non-standard interface
 291
 292 config PLX_HERMES
 293         tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 294         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 295         help
 296           Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
 297           orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors.  These
 298           adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
 299           PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.  Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
 300           802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.  The Netgear
 301           MA301 is such an adaptor.
 302
 303           Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
 304           You have been warned.
 305
 306 config TMD_HERMES
 307         tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 308         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 309         help
 310           Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
 311           orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors.  These
 312           adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
 313           PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.  Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
 314           802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
 315
 316           Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
 317           You have been warned.
 318
 319 config PCI_HERMES
 320         tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 321         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 322         help
 323           Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
 324           the Prism 2.5 chipset.  These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
 325           PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
 326           common.  Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
 327           this variety.
 328
 329 config ATMEL
 330       tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support"
 331       depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
 332       select FW_LOADER
 333       select CRC32
 334        ---help---
 335         A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
 336         chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
 337
 338         Many  cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
 339         and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
 340         one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
 341         to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
 342         firmware package can be downloaded from
 343         <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
 344
 345 config PCI_ATMEL
 346       tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
 347       depends on ATMEL && PCI
 348        ---help---
 349         Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
 350         Atmel at76c506 chip.
 351
 352 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
 353 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
 354         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 355
 356 config PCMCIA_HERMES
 357         tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
 358         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
 359         ---help---
 360           A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
 361           as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
 362           EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
 363           others).  It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
 364           such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline.  It should also
 365           work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
 366
 367           To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
 368           Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
 369           for location).  You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
 370           available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
 371
 372           You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
 373           configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
 374           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
 375
 376 config AIRO_CS
 377         tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
 378         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 379         ---help---
 380           This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
 381           802.11 wireless cards.  This driver is the same as the Aironet
 382           driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
 383           It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
 384           - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
 385           aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
 386           supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
 387           802.11b cards.
 388
 389           This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
 390           and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
 391           Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
 392
 393           To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
 394           Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
 395           for location).  You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
 396           available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
 397
 398 config PCMCIA_ATMEL
 399         tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
 400         depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
 401         select FW_LOADER
 402         select CRC32
 403         ---help---
 404           Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
 405           Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
 406
 407 config PCMCIA_WL3501
 408       tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
 409       depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
 410        ---help---
 411          A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
 412          It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
 413          micro support for ethtool.
 414
 415 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
 416         depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
 417 config PRISM54
 418         tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
 419         depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
 420         select FW_LOADER
 421         ---help---
 422           Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
 423
 424           ISL3880 - Prism GT            802.11 b/g
 425           ISL3877 - Prism Indigo        802.11 a
 426           ISL3890 - Prism Duette        802.11 a/b/g
 427
 428           For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
 429           Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
 430
 431           3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
 432           Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
 433           Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
 434           Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
 435           D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
 436           I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
 437           Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
 438           Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
 439           Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
 440           Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
 441           Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
 442           Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
 443           SMC2802W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
 444           SMC2835W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
 445           SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
 446           Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
 447           Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
 448
 449           If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
 450           You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
 451           You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
 452           <http://prism54.org>
 453           You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
 454           a current hotplug package.
 455
 456           Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
 457
 458           If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
 459           inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 460           say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module
 461           will be called prism54.ko.
 462
 463 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
 464 config NET_WIRELESS
 465         bool
 466         depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
 467         default y
 468
 469 endmenu
 470