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 AIRO
 141         tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
 142         depends on NET_RADIO && ISA && (PCI || BROKEN)
 143         ---help---
 144           This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
 145           PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
 146           It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
 147           - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
 148           aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
 149
 150           This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
 151           and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
 152           Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
 153
 154           The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
 155
 156 config HERMES
 157         tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
 158         depends on NET_RADIO && (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA)
 159         ---help---
 160           A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based based on the "Hermes" or
 161           Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller.  This includes the vast
 162           majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
 163           - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards.  Cards supported include the
 164           Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
 165           Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
 166           IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
 167           MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
 168           PRO/Wireless, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
 169
 170           This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
 171           actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
 172           Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
 173
 174           You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
 175           configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
 176           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
 177
 178 config APPLE_AIRPORT
 179         tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
 180         depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
 181         help
 182           Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
 183           built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
 184           Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
 185           a non-standard interface
 186
 187 config PLX_HERMES
 188         tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.) (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 189         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 190         help
 191           Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
 192           orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors.  These
 193           adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
 194           PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.  Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
 195           802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.  The Netgear
 196           MA301 is such an adaptor.
 197
 198           Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
 199           You have been warned.
 200
 201 config TMD_HERMES
 202         tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 203         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 204         help
 205           Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
 206           orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors.  These
 207           adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
 208           PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.  Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
 209           802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
 210
 211           Support for these adaptors is so far still incomplete and buggy.
 212           You have been warned.
 213
 214 config PCI_HERMES
 215         tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
 216         depends on PCI && HERMES && EXPERIMENTAL
 217         help
 218           Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
 219           the Prism 2.5 chipset.  These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
 220           PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
 221           common.  Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
 222           this variety.
 223
 224 config ATMEL
 225       tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset  802.11b support"
 226       depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
 227       select FW_LOADER
 228       select CRC32
 229        ---help---
 230         A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
 231         chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
 232
 233         Many  cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
 234         and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
 235         one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
 236         to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
 237         firmware package can be downloaded from
 238         <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
 239
 240 config PCI_ATMEL
 241       tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
 242       depends on ATMEL && PCI
 243        ---help---
 244         Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
 245         Atmel at76c506 chip.
 246
 247 # If Pcmcia is compiled in, offer Pcmcia cards...
 248 comment "Wireless 802.11b Pcmcia/Cardbus cards support"
 249         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 250
 251 config PCMCIA_HERMES
 252         tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
 253         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA && HERMES
 254         ---help---
 255           A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
 256           as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
 257           EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
 258           others).  It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
 259           such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline.  It should also
 260           work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
 261
 262           To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
 263           Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
 264           for location).  You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
 265           available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
 266
 267           You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
 268           configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
 269           <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
 270
 271 config AIRO_CS
 272         tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
 273         depends on NET_RADIO && PCMCIA
 274         ---help---
 275           This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
 276           802.11 wireless cards.  This driver is the same as the Aironet
 277           driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
 278           It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
 279           - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
 280           aquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
 281           supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
 282           802.11b cards.
 283
 284           This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
 285           and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
 286           Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
 287
 288           To use your PC-cards, you will need supporting software from David
 289           Hinds' pcmcia-cs package (see the file <file:Documentation/Changes>
 290           for location).  You also want to check out the PCMCIA-HOWTO,
 291           available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
 292
 293 config PCMCIA_ATMEL
 294         tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
 295         depends on NET_RADIO && ATMEL && PCMCIA
 296         select FW_LOADER
 297         select CRC32
 298         ---help---
 299           Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
 300           Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
 301
 302 config PCMCIA_WL3501
 303       tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
 304       depends on NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA
 305        ---help---
 306          A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
 307          It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
 308          micro support for ethtool.
 309
 310 comment "Prism GT/Duette 802.11(a/b/g) PCI/Cardbus support"
 311         depends on NET_RADIO && PCI
 312 config PRISM54
 313         tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
 314         depends on PCI && NET_RADIO && EXPERIMENTAL
 315         select FW_LOADER
 316         ---help---
 317           Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
 318
 319           ISL3880 - Prism GT            802.11 b/g
 320           ISL3877 - Prism Indigo        802.11 a
 321           ISL3890 - Prism Duette        802.11 a/b/g
 322
 323           For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
 324           Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
 325
 326           3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72
 327           Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
 328           Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
 329           Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
 330           D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
 331           I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
 332           Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
 333           Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
 334           Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
 335           Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
 336           Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
 337           Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
 338           SMC2802W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
 339           SMC2835W -    EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
 340           SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
 341           Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
 342           Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
 343
 344           If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
 345           You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
 346           You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
 347           <http://prism54.org>
 348           You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
 349           a current hotplug package.
 350
 351           Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
 352
 353           If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
 354           inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
 355           say M here and read <file:Documentation/modules.txt>.  The module
 356           will be called prism54.ko.
 357
 358 # yes, this works even when no drivers are selected
 359 config NET_WIRELESS
 360         bool
 361         depends on NET_RADIO && (ISA || PCI || PPC_PMAC || PCMCIA)
 362         default y
 363
 364 endmenu
 365