Andrey Borzenkov | 49c1d20 | 2009-01-17 15:53:45 +0300 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | config HERMES |
| 2 | tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)" |
| 3 | depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) && WLAN_80211 |
| 4 | select WIRELESS_EXT |
| 5 | select FW_LOADER |
| 6 | select CRYPTO |
| 7 | select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC |
| 8 | ---help--- |
| 9 | A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or |
| 10 | Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast |
| 11 | majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges) |
| 12 | - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the |
| 13 | Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco, |
| 14 | Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya, |
| 15 | IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear |
| 16 | MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel |
| 17 | IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to |
| 20 | actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA |
| 21 | Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to |
| 24 | configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works : |
| 25 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html> |
| 26 | |
| 27 | config HERMES_CACHE_FW_ON_INIT |
| 28 | bool "Cache Hermes firmware on driver initialisation" |
| 29 | depends on HERMES |
| 30 | default y |
| 31 | ---help--- |
| 32 | Say Y to cache any firmware required by the Hermes drivers |
| 33 | on startup. The firmware will remain cached until the |
| 34 | driver is unloaded. The cache uses 64K of RAM. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Otherwise load the firmware from userspace as required. In |
| 37 | this case the driver should be unloaded and restarted |
| 38 | whenever the firmware is changed. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | If you are not sure, say Y. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | config APPLE_AIRPORT |
| 43 | tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)" |
| 44 | depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES |
| 45 | help |
| 46 | Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware |
| 47 | built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based |
| 48 | Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with |
| 49 | a non-standard interface. |
| 50 | |
| 51 | This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use |
| 52 | the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | config PLX_HERMES |
| 55 | tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)" |
| 56 | depends on PCI && HERMES |
| 57 | help |
| 58 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka |
| 59 | orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These |
| 60 | adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited |
| 61 | PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that |
| 62 | 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear |
| 63 | MA301 is such an adaptor. |
| 64 | |
| 65 | config TMD_HERMES |
| 66 | tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support" |
| 67 | depends on PCI && HERMES |
| 68 | help |
| 69 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka |
| 70 | orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These |
| 71 | adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited |
| 72 | PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that |
| 73 | 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. |
| 74 | |
| 75 | config NORTEL_HERMES |
| 76 | tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support" |
| 77 | depends on PCI && HERMES |
| 78 | help |
| 79 | Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka |
| 80 | orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These |
| 81 | adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited |
| 82 | PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. |
| 83 | |
| 84 | config PCI_HERMES |
| 85 | tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support" |
| 86 | depends on PCI && HERMES |
| 87 | help |
| 88 | Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on |
| 89 | the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b |
| 90 | PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also |
| 91 | common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of |
| 92 | this variety. |
| 93 | |
| 94 | config PCMCIA_HERMES |
| 95 | tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support" |
| 96 | depends on PCMCIA && HERMES |
| 97 | ---help--- |
| 98 | A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such |
| 99 | as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/ |
| 100 | EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and |
| 101 | others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards |
| 102 | such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also |
| 103 | work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN. |
| 104 | |
| 105 | You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to |
| 106 | configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works: |
| 107 | <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM |
| 110 | tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support" |
| 111 | depends on PCMCIA && HERMES |
| 112 | ---help--- |
| 113 | |
| 114 | This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol |
| 115 | firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash |
| 116 | cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B. |
| 117 | |
| 118 | This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities |
| 119 | for downloading Symbol firmware are available at |
| 120 | <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/> |