| .\" From jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com Thu Dec 19 18:31:49 1996 |
| .\" From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com> |
| .\" Address: HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K. |
| .\" Jean II - HPLB - '96 |
| .\" wavelan.c.4 |
| .\" |
| .\" Provenance of this page is unclear. |
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| .\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later |
| .\" |
| .TH wavelan 4 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" |
| .SH NAME |
| wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .nf |
| .BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ] |
| .fi |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .I This driver is obsolete: |
| it was removed in Linux 2.6.35. |
| .P |
| .B wavelan |
| is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent |
| .B WaveLAN ISA |
| and Digital (DEC) |
| .B RoamAbout DS |
| wireless ethernet adapter. |
| This driver is available as a module or |
| might be compiled in the kernel. |
| This driver supports multiple cards |
| in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet |
| device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is |
| explicitly specified (see below). |
| This device name will be reported |
| in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID, and frequency used |
| by the card. |
| .SS Parameters |
| This section applies to the module form (parameters passed on the |
| .BR insmod (8) |
| command line). |
| If the driver is included in the kernel, use the |
| .I ether=IRQ,IO,NAME |
| syntax on the kernel command line. |
| .TP |
| .B io |
| Specify the list of base addresses where to search for wavelan cards |
| (setting by dip switch on the card). |
| If you don't specify any io |
| address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might |
| conflict with other hardware... |
| .TP |
| .B irq |
| Set the list of IRQs that each wavelan card should use (the value is |
| saved in permanent storage for future use). |
| .TP |
| .B name |
| Set the list of names to be used for each wavelan card device (name |
| used by |
| .BR ifconfig (8)). |
| .SS Wireless extensions |
| Use |
| .BR iwconfig (8) |
| to manipulate wireless extensions. |
| .SS NWID (or domain) |
| Set the network ID |
| .RI [ 0 |
| to |
| .IR FFFF ] |
| or disable it |
| .RI [ off ]. |
| As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be |
| reused at any further invocation of the driver. |
| .SS Frequency & channels |
| For the 2.4\ GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by |
| specifying one of the 10 defined channels |
| .RI ( 2.412, |
| .I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 |
| or |
| .IR 2.484 ) |
| or directly as a numeric value. |
| The frequency is changed immediately and |
| permanently. |
| Frequency availability depends on the regulations... |
| .SS Statistics spy |
| Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last |
| quality of link for each of those (see |
| .BR iwspy (8)). |
| .SS /proc/net/wireless |
| .I status |
| is the status reported by the modem. |
| .I Link quality |
| reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence |
| spread spectrum) [max = 16]. |
| .I Level |
| and |
| .I Noise |
| refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64]. |
| The |
| .I crypt discarded packet |
| and |
| .I misc discarded packet |
| counters are not implemented. |
| .SS Private ioctl |
| You may use |
| .BR iwpriv (8) |
| to manipulate private ioctls. |
| .SS Quality and level threshold |
| Enables you to define the quality and level threshold used by the |
| modem (packet below that level are discarded). |
| .SS Histogram |
| This functionality makes it possible to set a number of |
| signal level intervals and |
| to count the number of packets received in each of those defined |
| intervals. |
| This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value |
| and standard deviation of the signal level. |
| .SS Specific notes |
| This driver fails to detect some |
| .B non-NCR/AT&T/Lucent |
| Wavelan cards. |
| If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on |
| how to add your card to the detection routine. |
| .P |
| Some of the mentioned features are optional. |
| You may enable or disable |
| them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. |
| .\" .SH AUTHOR |
| .\" Bruce Janson \[em] bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Jean Tourrilhes \[em] jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com |
| .\" .br |
| .\" (and others; see source code for details) |
| .\" |
| .\" SEE ALSO part |
| .\" |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR wavelan_cs (4), |
| .BR ifconfig (8), |
| .BR insmod (8), |
| .BR iwconfig (8), |
| .BR iwpriv (8), |
| .BR iwspy (8) |
