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
133 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network
134 Connection 802.11b wireless network adapter.
136 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100> for information on
137 the capabilities currently enabled in this driver and for tips
138 for debugging issues and problems.
140 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
141 You can obtain the firmware from
142 <http://ipw2100.sf.net/>. Once you have the firmware image, you
143 will need to place it in /lib/firmware.
145 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
148 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
150 It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
151 rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
152 initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
153 before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
154 unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
155 this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
156 including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
158 config IPW2100_MONITOR
159 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
162 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2100 driver.
163 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
164 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
165 mode, no packets can be sent.
168 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2100 module."
171 This option will enable debug tracing output for the IPW2100.
173 This will result in the kernel module being ~60k larger. You can
174 control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the
177 /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2100/debug_level
179 This entry will only exist if this option is enabled.
181 If you are not trying to debug or develop the IPW2100 driver, you
182 most likely want to say N here.
185 tristate "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network Connection"
186 depends on PCI && WLAN_80211
191 A driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG and 2915ABG Network
194 See <file:Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200> for
195 information on the capabilities currently enabled in this
196 driver and for tips for debugging issues and problems.
198 In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware image for it.
199 You can obtain the firmware from
200 <http://ipw2200.sf.net/>. See the above referenced README.ipw2200
201 for information on where to install the firmware images.
203 You will also very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
206 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
208 It is recommended that you compile this driver as a module (M)
209 rather than built-in (Y). This driver requires firmware at device
210 initialization time, and when built-in this typically happens
211 before the filesystem is accessible (hence firmware will be
212 unavailable and initialization will fail). If you do choose to build
213 this driver into your kernel image, you can avoid this problem by
214 including the firmware and a firmware loader in an initramfs.
216 config IPW2200_MONITOR
217 bool "Enable promiscuous mode"
220 Enables promiscuous/monitor mode support for the ipw2200 driver.
221 With this feature compiled into the driver, you can switch to
222 promiscuous mode via the Wireless Tool's Monitor mode. While in this
223 mode, no packets can be sent.
225 config IPW2200_RADIOTAP
226 bool "Enable radiotap format 802.11 raw packet support"
227 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
229 config IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS
230 bool "Enable creation of a RF radiotap promiscuous interface"
231 depends on IPW2200_MONITOR
232 select IPW2200_RADIOTAP
234 Enables the creation of a second interface prefixed 'rtap'.
235 This second interface will provide every received in radiotap
238 This is useful for performing wireless network analysis while
239 maintaining an active association.
243 % modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
247 If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' as a module parameter then
248 the rtap interface will not be created and you will need to turn
251 % echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
254 bool "Enable QoS support"
255 depends on IPW2200 && EXPERIMENTAL
258 bool "Enable full debugging output in IPW2200 module."
261 This option will enable low level debug tracing output for IPW2200.
263 Note, normal debug code is already compiled in. This low level
264 debug option enables debug on hot paths (e.g Tx, Rx, ISR) and
265 will result in the kernel module being ~70 larger. Most users
266 will typically not need this high verbosity debug information.
268 If you are not sure, say N here.
271 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support"
272 depends on WLAN_80211
277 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices.
280 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards"
281 depends on LIBERTAS && USB
283 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices.
286 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash 802.11b/g cards"
287 depends on LIBERTAS && PCMCIA && EXPERIMENTAL
290 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 CompactFlash devices.
293 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO 802.11b/g cards"
294 depends on LIBERTAS && MMC
296 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8385 and 8686 SDIO devices.
298 config LIBERTAS_DEBUG
299 bool "Enable full debugging output in the Libertas module."
305 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
306 depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN)
310 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
311 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
312 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
313 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
314 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
316 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
317 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
318 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
320 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
323 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)"
324 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
327 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or
328 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast
329 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges)
330 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the
331 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco,
332 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya,
333 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear
334 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel
335 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others.
337 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to
338 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA
339 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below.
341 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
342 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works :
343 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>
346 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)"
347 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES
349 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware
350 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based
351 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with
352 a non-standard interface.
354 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use
355 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards.
358 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)"
359 depends on PCI && HERMES
361 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
362 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These
363 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
364 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
365 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear
366 MA301 is such an adaptor.
369 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support"
370 depends on PCI && HERMES
372 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
373 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These
374 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited
375 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that
376 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines.
379 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support"
380 depends on PCI && HERMES
382 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka
383 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These
384 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited
385 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge.
388 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support"
389 depends on PCI && HERMES
391 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on
392 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b
393 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also
394 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of
398 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support"
399 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
401 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such
402 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/
403 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and
404 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards
405 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also
406 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN.
408 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to
409 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works:
410 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
412 config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM
413 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support"
414 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES
418 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol
419 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash
420 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
422 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities
423 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at
424 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/>
427 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
428 depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
433 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
434 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
436 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
437 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
438 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
439 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
440 firmware package can be downloaded from
441 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
444 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
445 depends on ATMEL && PCI
447 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
451 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
452 depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA
457 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
458 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
461 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
462 depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211
467 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
468 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
469 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
470 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
471 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
472 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
473 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
476 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
477 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
478 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
481 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
482 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
485 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
486 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
487 micro support for ethtool.
490 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus'
491 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211
495 Enable PCI and Cardbus support for the following chipset based cards:
497 ISL3880 - Prism GT 802.11 b/g
498 ISL3877 - Prism Indigo 802.11 a
499 ISL3890 - Prism Duette 802.11 a/b/g
501 For a complete list of supported cards visit <http://prism54.org>.
502 Here is the latest confirmed list of supported cards:
504 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 (version 1)
505 Allnet ALL0271 PCI Card
506 Compex WL54G Cardbus Card
507 Corega CG-WLCB54GT Cardbus Card
508 D-Link Air Plus Xtreme G A1 Cardbus Card aka DWL-g650
509 I-O Data WN-G54/CB Cardbus Card
510 Kobishi XG-300 aka Z-Com Cardbus Card
511 Netgear WG511 Cardbus Card
512 Ovislink WL-5400PCI PCI Card
513 Peabird WLG-PCI PCI Card
514 Sitecom WL-100i Cardbus Card
515 Sitecom WL-110i PCI Card
516 SMC2802W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless PCI Card
517 SMC2835W - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
518 SMC2835W-V2 - EZ Connect g 2.4GHz 54 Mbps Wireless Cardbus Card
519 Z-Com XG-900 PCI Card
520 Zyxel G-100 Cardbus Card
522 If you enable this you will need a firmware file as well.
523 You will need to copy this to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890.
524 You can get this non-GPL'd firmware file from the Prism54 project page:
526 You will also need the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent script from
527 a current hotplug package.
529 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
531 If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be
532 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want),
533 say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>.
534 The module will be called prism54.ko.
537 tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
538 depends on USB && WLAN_80211
542 Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
545 This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
548 The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
549 This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
551 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
552 module will be called zd1201.
554 config USB_NET_RNDIS_WLAN
555 tristate "Wireless RNDIS USB support"
556 depends on USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
558 select USB_NET_CDCETHER
559 select USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
562 This is a driver for wireless RNDIS devices.
563 These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
565 Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
566 U.S. Robotics USR5421
574 U.S. Robotics USR5420
577 All of these devices are based on Broadcom 4320 chip which is the
578 only wireless RNDIS chip known to date.
580 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called rndis_wlan.
583 tristate "Realtek 8180/8185 PCI support"
584 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
587 This is a driver for RTL8180 and RTL8185 based cards.
588 These are PCI based chips found in cards such as:
602 Ovislink AirLive WL-1120PCM
617 Siemens-fujitsu Amilo D1840W
625 Topcom Skyr@cer 4011b
626 Roper FreeLan 802.11b (edition 2004)
627 Wistron Neweb Corp CB-200B
630 TwinMOS Booming B Series
636 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
639 tristate "Realtek 8187 USB support"
640 depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
643 This is a driver for RTL8187 based cards.
644 These are USB based chips found in cards such as:
648 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
651 tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support"
652 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
656 This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards.
657 These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as:
659 Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b
660 Blitz NetWave Point PC
666 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796)
669 D-Link DWL-520 Revision C
671 However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips
672 like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or
673 the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change.
675 Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver.
678 tristate "Softmac Prism54 support"
679 depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && FW_LOADER && EXPERIMENTAL
681 This is common code for isl38xx based cards.
682 This module does nothing by itself - the USB/PCI frontends
683 also need to be enabled in order to support any devices.
685 These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at
688 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54common.
691 tristate "Prism54 USB support"
692 depends on P54_COMMON && USB
695 This driver is for USB isl38xx based wireless cards.
696 These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
700 Accton 802.11g WN4501 USB
704 Medion 40900, Roper Europe
705 Shuttle PN15, Airvast WM168g, IOGear GWU513
707 Linksys WUSB54G Portable
708 DLink DWL-G120 Spinnaker
710 Belkin F5D7050 ver 1000
712 SMC 2862W-G version 2
713 U.S. Robotics U5 802.11g Adapter
714 FUJITSU E-5400 USB D1700
716 DLink DWL-G120 Cohiba
717 Spinnaker Proto board
722 These devices require softmac firmware which can be found at
725 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54usb.
728 tristate "Prism54 PCI support"
729 depends on P54_COMMON && PCI
731 This driver is for PCI isl38xx based wireless cards.
732 This driver supports most devices that are supported by the
733 fullmac prism54 driver plus many devices which are not
734 supported by the fullmac driver/firmware.
736 This driver requires softmac firmware which can be found at
739 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called p54pci.
741 source "drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/Kconfig"
742 source "drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig"
743 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
744 source "drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig"
745 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig"
746 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig"
747 source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"
748 source "drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig"