2 # Wireless LAN device configuration
10 This section contains all the pre 802.11 and 802.11 wireless
11 device drivers. For a complete list of drivers and documentation
12 on them refer to the wireless wiki:
14 http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers
18 menuconfig WLAN_PRE80211
19 bool "Wireless LAN (pre-802.11)"
22 Say Y if you have any pre-802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
24 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
25 lets you choose drivers.
28 tristate "STRIP (Metricom starmode radio IP)"
29 depends on INET && WLAN_PRE80211
32 Say Y if you have a Metricom radio and intend to use Starmode Radio
33 IP. STRIP is a radio protocol developed for the MosquitoNet project
34 to send Internet traffic using Metricom radios. Metricom radios are
35 small, battery powered, 100kbit/sec packet radio transceivers, about
36 the size and weight of a cellular telephone. (You may also have heard
37 them called "Metricom modems" but we avoid the term "modem" because
38 it misleads many people into thinking that you can plug a Metricom
39 modem into a phone line and use it as a modem.)
41 You can use STRIP on any Linux machine with a serial port, although
42 it is obviously most useful for people with laptop computers. If you
43 think you might get a Metricom radio in the future, there is no harm
44 in saying Y to STRIP now, except that it makes the kernel a bit
47 To compile this as a module, choose M here: the module will be
51 tristate "Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS support"
52 depends on ISA && !64BIT && WLAN_PRE80211
55 Aironet makes Arlan, a class of wireless LAN adapters. These use the
56 www.Telxon.com chip, which is also used on several similar cards.
57 This driver is tested on the 655 and IC2200 series cards. Look at
58 <http://www.ylenurme.ee/~elmer/655/> for the latest information.
60 The driver is built as two modules, arlan and arlan-proc. The latter
61 is the /proc interface and is not needed most of time.
63 On some computers the card ends up in non-valid state after some
64 time. Use a ping-reset script to clear it.
67 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN & DEC RoamAbout DS ISA support"
68 depends on ISA && WLAN_PRE80211
73 The Lucent WaveLAN (formerly NCR and AT&T; or DEC RoamAbout DS) is
74 a Radio LAN (wireless Ethernet-like Local Area Network) using the
75 radio frequencies 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.
77 If you want to use an ISA WaveLAN card under Linux, say Y and read
78 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from
79 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some more specific
80 information is contained in
81 <file:Documentation/networking/wavelan.txt> and in the source code
82 <file:drivers/net/wireless/wavelan.p.h>.
84 You will also need the wireless tools package available from
85 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
86 Please read the man pages contained therein.
88 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
92 tristate "AT&T/Lucent old WaveLAN Pcmcia wireless support"
93 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
98 Say Y here if you intend to attach an AT&T/Lucent Wavelan PCMCIA
99 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer. This
100 driver is for the non-IEEE-802.11 Wavelan cards.
102 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
103 called wavelan_cs. If unsure, say N.
105 config PCMCIA_NETWAVE
106 tristate "Xircom Netwave AirSurfer Pcmcia wireless support"
107 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_PRE80211
111 Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA (PC-card)
112 wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
114 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
115 called netwave_cs. If unsure, say N.
118 menuconfig WLAN_80211
119 bool "Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11)"
120 depends on NETDEVICES
122 Say Y if you have any 802.11 wireless LAN hardware.
124 This option does not affect the kernel build, it only
125 lets you choose drivers.
128 tristate "Aviator/Raytheon 2.4GHz wireless support"
129 depends on PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
134 Say Y here if you intend to attach an Aviator/Raytheon PCMCIA
135 (PC-card) wireless Ethernet networking card to your computer.
136 Please read the file <file:Documentation/networking/ray_cs.txt> for
139 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
140 called ray_cs. If unsure, say N.
142 config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM
143 tristate "Marvell 8xxx Libertas WLAN driver support with thin firmware"
144 depends on WLAN_80211 && MAC80211
147 A library for Marvell Libertas 8xxx devices using thinfirm.
149 config LIBERTAS_THINFIRM_USB
150 tristate "Marvell Libertas 8388 USB 802.11b/g cards with thin firmware"
151 depends on LIBERTAS_THINFIRM && USB
153 A driver for Marvell Libertas 8388 USB devices using thinfirm.
156 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 ISA and PCI cards"
157 depends on ISA_DMA_API && WLAN_80211 && (PCI || BROKEN)
163 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet ISA and
164 PCI 802.11 wireless cards.
165 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
166 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
167 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B).
169 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
170 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
171 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
173 The driver can be compiled as a module and will be named "airo".
176 tristate "Atmel at76c50x chipset 802.11b support"
177 depends on (PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211
183 A driver 802.11b wireless cards based on the Atmel fast-vnet
184 chips. This driver supports standard Linux wireless extensions.
186 Many cards based on this chipset do not have flash memory
187 and need their firmware loaded at start-up. If yours is
188 one of these, you will need to provide a firmware image
189 to be loaded into the card by the driver. The Atmel
190 firmware package can be downloaded from
191 <http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/atmel>
194 tristate "Atmel at76c506 PCI cards"
195 depends on ATMEL && PCI
197 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI cards containing the
201 tristate "Atmel at76c502/at76c504 PCMCIA cards"
202 depends on ATMEL && PCMCIA
207 Enable support for PCMCIA cards containing the
208 Atmel at76c502 and at76c504 chips.
211 tristate "Atmel at76c503/at76c505/at76c505a USB cards"
212 depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211 && USB
215 Enable support for USB Wireless devices using Atmel at76c503,
216 at76c505 or at76c505a chips.
219 tristate "Cisco/Aironet 34X/35X/4500/4800 PCMCIA cards"
220 depends on PCMCIA && (BROKEN || !M32R) && WLAN_80211
225 This is the standard Linux driver to support Cisco/Aironet PCMCIA
226 802.11 wireless cards. This driver is the same as the Aironet
227 driver part of the Linux Pcmcia package.
228 It supports the new 802.11b cards from Cisco (Cisco 34X, Cisco 35X
229 - with or without encryption) as well as card before the Cisco
230 acquisition (Aironet 4500, Aironet 4800, Aironet 4800B). It also
231 supports OEM of Cisco such as the DELL TrueMobile 4800 and Xircom
234 This driver support both the standard Linux Wireless Extensions
235 and Cisco proprietary API, so both the Linux Wireless Tools and the
236 Cisco Linux utilities can be used to configure the card.
239 tristate "Planet WL3501 PCMCIA cards"
240 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PCMCIA && WLAN_80211
244 A driver for WL3501 PCMCIA 802.11 wireless cards made by Planet.
245 It has basic support for Linux wireless extensions and initial
246 micro support for ethtool.
249 tristate 'Intersil Prism GT/Duette/Indigo PCI/Cardbus (DEPRECATED)'
250 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL && WLAN_80211
256 This enables support for FullMAC PCI/Cardbus prism54 devices. This
257 driver is now deprecated in favor for the SoftMAC driver, p54pci.
258 p54pci supports FullMAC PCI/Cardbus devices as well. For details on
259 the scheduled removal of this driver on the kernel see the feature
262 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
264 For more information refer to the p54 wiki:
266 http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/p54
268 Note: You need a motherboard with DMA support to use any of these cards
270 When built as module you get the module prism54
273 tristate "USB ZD1201 based Wireless device support"
274 depends on USB && WLAN_80211
279 Say Y if you want to use wireless LAN adapters based on the ZyDAS
282 This driver makes the adapter appear as a normal Ethernet interface,
285 The zd1201 device requires external firmware to be loaded.
286 This can be found at http://linux-lc100020.sourceforge.net/
288 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
289 module will be called zd1201.
291 config USB_NET_RNDIS_WLAN
292 tristate "Wireless RNDIS USB support"
293 depends on USB && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
296 select USB_NET_CDCETHER
297 select USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
299 This is a driver for wireless RNDIS devices.
300 These are USB based adapters found in devices such as:
302 Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
303 U.S. Robotics USR5421
311 U.S. Robotics USR5420
314 All of these devices are based on Broadcom 4320 chip which is the
315 only wireless RNDIS chip known to date.
317 If you choose to build a module, it'll be called rndis_wlan.
320 tristate "Realtek 8180/8185 PCI support"
321 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
324 This is a driver for RTL8180 and RTL8185 based cards.
325 These are PCI based chips found in cards such as:
339 Ovislink AirLive WL-1120PCM
354 Siemens-fujitsu Amilo D1840W
362 Topcom Skyr@cer 4011b
363 Roper FreeLan 802.11b (edition 2004)
364 Wistron Neweb Corp CB-200B
367 TwinMOS Booming B Series
373 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
376 tristate "Realtek 8187 and 8187B USB support"
377 depends on MAC80211 && USB && WLAN_80211
380 This is a driver for RTL8187 and RTL8187B based cards.
381 These are USB based chips found in devices such as:
388 ASUS P5B Deluxe/P5K Premium motherboards
389 Toshiba Satellite Pro series of laptops
391 Linksys WUSB54GC-EU v2
392 (v1 = rt73usb; v3 is rt2070-based,
393 use staging/rt3070 or try rt2800usb)
395 Thanks to Realtek for their support!
397 # If possible, automatically enable LEDs for RTL8187.
401 depends on RTL8187 && MAC80211_LEDS && (LEDS_CLASS = y || LEDS_CLASS = RTL8187)
405 tristate "ADMtek ADM8211 support"
406 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
410 This driver is for ADM8211A, ADM8211B, and ADM8211C based cards.
411 These are PCI/mini-PCI/Cardbus 802.11b chips found in cards such as:
413 Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b
414 Blitz NetWave Point PC
420 3com Office Connect (3CRSHPW796)
423 D-Link DWL-520 Revision C
425 However, some of these cards have been replaced with other chips
426 like the RTL8180L (Xterasys Cardbus XN-2411b, Belkin F5D6001) or
427 the Ralink RT2400 (SMC2635W) without a model number change.
429 Thanks to Infineon-ADMtek for their support of this driver.
431 config MAC80211_HWSIM
432 tristate "Simulated radio testing tool for mac80211"
433 depends on MAC80211 && WLAN_80211
435 This driver is a developer testing tool that can be used to test
436 IEEE 802.11 networking stack (mac80211) functionality. This is not
437 needed for normal wireless LAN usage and is only for testing. See
438 Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim for more information on how
441 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be
442 called mac80211_hwsim. If unsure, say N.
445 tristate "Marvell 88W8xxx PCI/PCIe Wireless support"
446 depends on MAC80211 && PCI && WLAN_80211 && EXPERIMENTAL
448 This driver supports Marvell TOPDOG 802.11 wireless cards.
450 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
451 will be called mwl8k. If unsure, say N.
453 source "drivers/net/wireless/ath/Kconfig"
454 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43/Kconfig"
455 source "drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/Kconfig"
456 source "drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig"
457 source "drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/Kconfig"
458 source "drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/Kconfig"
459 source "drivers/net/wireless/iwmc3200wifi/Kconfig"
460 source "drivers/net/wireless/libertas/Kconfig"
461 source "drivers/net/wireless/orinoco/Kconfig"
462 source "drivers/net/wireless/p54/Kconfig"
463 source "drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/Kconfig"
464 source "drivers/net/wireless/wl12xx/Kconfig"
465 source "drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/Kconfig"