2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
9 bool "Wireless LAN (pre-802.11)"
12 Say Y if you have any pre-802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
14 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
15 lets you choose drivers.
18 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
19 depends on INET && WLAN_PRE80211
22 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
23 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
24 (on the WWW at <http://mosquitonet.stanford.edu/>) to send Internet
25 traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are small, battery
26 powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about the size and
27 weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard them called
28 "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because it misleads
29 many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom modem into a
30 phone line and use it as a modem.)
32 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
33 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
34 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
35 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
38 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
42 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
43 depends on ISA && !64BIT && WLAN_PRE80211
46 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
47 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
48 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
49 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
51 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
52 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
54 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
55 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
58 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
59 depends on ISA && WLAN_PRE80211
62 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
63 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
64 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
66 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
67 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
68 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
69 information is contained in
70 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
71 <file:drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h>.
73 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
74 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
75 Please read the man pages contained therein.
77 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
81 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
82 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
85 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
86 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
87 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
89 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
90 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
93 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
94 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
97 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
98 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
100 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
101 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
105 bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)"
106 depends on NETDEVICES
108 Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
110 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
111 lets you choose drivers.
114 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4MHz wireless support"
115 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
118 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
119 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
120 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
123 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
124 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
127 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection"
128 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
134 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
135 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
137 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
138 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
139 for debugging issues and problems.
141 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
142 You can obtain the firmware from
143 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
144 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
146 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
149 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
151 It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
152 rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
153 initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
154 before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
155 unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
156 this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
157 including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
159 config IPW2100_MONITOR
160 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
163 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
164 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
165 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
166 mode, no packets can be sent.
169 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
172 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
174 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
175 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
178 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
180 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
182 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
183 most likely want to say N here.
186 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
187 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
193 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
196 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
197 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
198 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
200 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
201 You can obtain the firmware from
202 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
203 for information on where to install the firmware images.
205 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
208 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
210 It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
211 rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
212 initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
213 before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
214 unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
215 this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
216 including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
218 config IPW2200_MONITOR
219 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
222 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
223 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
224 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
225 mode, no packets can be sent.
227 config IPW2200_RADIOTAP
228 bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support"
229 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
231 config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
232 bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
233 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
234 select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
236 Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
237 This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
240 This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
241 maintaining an active association.
245 % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
249 If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
250 the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
253 % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
256 bool "Enable QoS support"
257 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
260 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
263 This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
265 Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
266 debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and
267 will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users
268 will typically not need this high verbosity debug information.
270 If you are not sure, say N here.
273 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support"
274 depends on WLAN_80211
279 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices.
282 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards"
283 depends on LIBERTAS && USB
285 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices.
288 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash 802.11b/g cards"
289 depends on LIBERTAS && PCMCIA
292 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash devices.
295 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO 802.11b/g cards"
296 depends on LIBERTAS && MMC
298 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO devices.
300 config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
301 bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
306 config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM
307 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support with thin firmware"
308 depends on WLAN_80211 && MAC80211
311 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices using thinfirm.
313 config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM_USB
314 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards with thin firmware"
315 depends on LIBERTAS_THINFIRM && USB
317 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices using thinfirm.
320 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
321 depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN)
325 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
326 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
327 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
328 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
329 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
331 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
332 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
333 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
335 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
338 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
339 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
343 select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC
345 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
346 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
347 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
348 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
349 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
350 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
351 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
352 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
353 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
355 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
356 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
357 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
359 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
360 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
361 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
364 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
365 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
367 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
368 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
369 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
370 a non-standard interface.
372 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
373 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
376 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
377 depends on PCI && HERMES
379 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
380 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
381 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
382 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
383 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
384 MA301 is such an adaptor.
387 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
388 depends on PCI && HERMES
390 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
391 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
392 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
393 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
394 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
397 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
398 depends on PCI && HERMES
400 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
401 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
402 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
403 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
406 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
407 depends on PCI && HERMES
409 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
410 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
411 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
412 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
416 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
417 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
419 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
420 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
421 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
422 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
423 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
424 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
426 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
427 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
428 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
430 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
431 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
432 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
435 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
436 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
437 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
439 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
440 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
441 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
444 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
445 depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
450 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
451 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
453 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
454 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
455 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
456 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
457 firmware package can be downloaded from
458 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
461 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
462 depends on ATMEL && PCI
464 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
468 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
469 depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA
474 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
475 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
478 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
479 depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211
484 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
485 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
486 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
487 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
488 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
489 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
490 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
493 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
494 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
495 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
498 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
499 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
502 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
503 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
504 micro support for ethtool.
507 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
508 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211
512 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
514 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
515 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
516 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
518 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
519 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
521 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
522 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
523 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
524 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
525 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
526 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
527 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
528 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
529 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
530 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
531 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
532 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
533 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
534 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
535 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
536 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
537 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
539 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
540 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
541 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
543 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
544 a current hotplug package.
546 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
548 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
549 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
550 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
551 The module will be called prism54.ko.
554 tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
555 depends on USB && WLAN_80211
559 Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
562 This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
565 The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
566 This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
568 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
569 module will be called zd1201.
571 config USB_NET_RNDIS_WLAN
572 tristate "Wireless RNDIS USB support"
573 depends on USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
575 select USB_NET_CDCETHER
576 select USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
579 This is a driver for wireless RNDIS devices.
580 These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
582 Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
583 U.S. Robotics USR5421
591 U.S. Robotics USR5420
594 All of these devices are based on Broadcom 4320 chip which is the
595 only wireless RNDIS chip known to date.
597 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called rndis_wlan.
600 tristate "Realtek 8180/8185 PCI support"
601 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
604 This is a driver for RTL8180 and RTL8185 based cards.
605 These are PCI based chips found in cards such as:
619 Ovislink AirLive WL-1120PCM
634 Siemens-fujitsu Amilo D1840W
642 Topcom Skyr@cer 4011b
643 Roper FreeLan 802.11b (edition 2004)
644 Wistron Neweb Corp CB-200B
647 TwinMOS Booming B Series
653 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
656 tristate "Realtek 8187 and 8187B USB support"
657 depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
660 This is a driver for RTL8187 and RTL8187B based cards.
661 These are USB based chips found in devices such as:
669 Toshiba Satellite Pro series of laptops
672 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
675 tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support"
676 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
680 This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards.
681 These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as:
683 Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b
684 Blitz NetWave Point PC
690 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796)
693 D-Link DWL-520 Revision C
695 However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips
696 like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or
697 the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change.
699 Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver.
701 config MAC80211_HWSIM
702 tristate "Simulated radio testing tool for mac80211"
703 depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211
705 This driver is a developer testing tool that can be used to test
706 IEEE 802.11 networking stack (mac80211) functionality. This is not
707 needed for normal wireless LAN usage and is only for testing. See
708 Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim for more information on how
711 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
712 called mac80211_hwsim. If unsure, say N.
714 source "drivers/net/wireless/p54/Kconfig"
715 source "drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/Kconfig"
716 source "drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/Kconfig"
717 source "drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig"
718 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
719 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig"
720 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig"
721 source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"
722 source "drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig"