1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2config HERMES 3 tristate "Hermes chipset 802.11b support (Orinoco/Prism2/Symbol)" 4 depends on (PPC_PMAC || PCI || PCMCIA) 5 depends on CFG80211 6 select CFG80211_WEXT_EXPORT 7 select WIRELESS_EXT 8 select WEXT_SPY 9 select WEXT_PRIV 10 select FW_LOADER 11 select CRYPTO 12 select CRYPTO_MICHAEL_MIC 13 help 14 A driver for 802.11b wireless cards based on the "Hermes" or 15 Intersil HFA384x (Prism 2) MAC controller. This includes the vast 16 majority of the PCMCIA 802.11b cards (which are nearly all rebadges) 17 - except for the Cisco/Aironet cards. Cards supported include the 18 Apple Airport (not a PCMCIA card), WavelanIEEE/Orinoco, 19 Cabletron/EnteraSys Roamabout, ELSA AirLancer, MELCO Buffalo, Avaya, 20 IBM High Rate Wireless, Farralon Syyline, Samsung MagicLAN, Netgear 21 MA401, LinkSys WPC-11, D-Link DWL-650, 3Com AirConnect, Intel 22 IPW2011, and Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate amongst others. 23 24 This option includes the guts of the driver, but in order to 25 actually use a card you will also need to enable support for PCMCIA 26 Hermes cards, PLX9052 based PCI adaptors or the Apple Airport below. 27 28 You will also very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to 29 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works : 30 <https://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html> 31 32config HERMES_PRISM 33 bool "Support Prism 2/2.5 chipset" 34 depends on HERMES 35 help 36 37 Say Y to enable support for Prism 2 and 2.5 chipsets. These 38 chipsets are better handled by the hostap driver. This driver 39 would not support WPA or firmware download for Prism chipset. 40 41 If you are not sure, say N. 42 43config HERMES_CACHE_FW_ON_INIT 44 bool "Cache Hermes firmware on driver initialisation" 45 depends on HERMES 46 default y 47 help 48 Say Y to cache any firmware required by the Hermes drivers 49 on startup. The firmware will remain cached until the 50 driver is unloaded. The cache uses 64K of RAM. 51 52 Otherwise load the firmware from userspace as required. In 53 this case the driver should be unloaded and restarted 54 whenever the firmware is changed. 55 56 If you are not sure, say Y. 57 58config APPLE_AIRPORT 59 tristate "Apple Airport support (built-in)" 60 depends on PPC_PMAC && HERMES 61 help 62 Say Y here to support the Airport 802.11b wireless Ethernet hardware 63 built into the Macintosh iBook and other recent PowerPC-based 64 Macintosh machines. This is essentially a Lucent Orinoco card with 65 a non-standard interface. 66 67 This driver does not support the Airport Extreme (802.11b/g). Use 68 the BCM43xx driver for Airport Extreme cards. 69 70config PLX_HERMES 71 tristate "Hermes in PLX9052 based PCI adaptor support (Netgear MA301 etc.)" 72 depends on PCI && HERMES 73 help 74 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 75 orinoco) driver when used in PLX9052 based PCI adaptors. These 76 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 77 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 78 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. The Netgear 79 MA301 is such an adaptor. 80 81config TMD_HERMES 82 tristate "Hermes in TMD7160 based PCI adaptor support" 83 depends on PCI && HERMES 84 help 85 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 86 orinoco) driver when used in TMD7160 based PCI adaptors. These 87 adaptors are not a full PCMCIA controller but act as a more limited 88 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. Several vendors sell such adaptors so that 89 802.11b PCMCIA cards can be used in desktop machines. 90 91config NORTEL_HERMES 92 tristate "Nortel emobility PCI adaptor support" 93 depends on PCI && HERMES 94 help 95 Enable support for PCMCIA cards supported by the "Hermes" (aka 96 orinoco) driver when used in Nortel emobility PCI adaptors. These 97 adaptors are not full PCMCIA controllers, but act as a more limited 98 PCI <-> PCMCIA bridge. 99 100config PCI_HERMES 101 tristate "Prism 2.5 PCI 802.11b adaptor support" 102 depends on PCI && HERMES && HERMES_PRISM 103 help 104 Enable support for PCI and mini-PCI 802.11b wireless NICs based on 105 the Prism 2.5 chipset. These are true PCI cards, not the 802.11b 106 PCMCIA cards bundled with PCI<->PCMCIA adaptors which are also 107 common. Some of the built-in wireless adaptors in laptops are of 108 this variety. 109 110config PCMCIA_HERMES 111 tristate "Hermes PCMCIA card support" 112 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP 113 help 114 A driver for "Hermes" chipset based PCMCIA wireless adaptors, such 115 as the Lucent WavelanIEEE/Orinoco cards and their OEM (Cabletron/ 116 EnteraSys RoamAbout 802.11, ELSA Airlancer, Melco Buffalo and 117 others). It should also be usable on various Prism II based cards 118 such as the Linksys, D-Link and Farallon Skyline. It should also 119 work on Symbol cards such as the 3Com AirConnect and Ericsson WLAN. 120 121 You will very likely need the Wireless Tools in order to 122 configure your card and that /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts works: 123 <https://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>. 124 125config PCMCIA_SPECTRUM 126 tristate "Symbol Spectrum24 Trilogy PCMCIA card support" 127 depends on PCMCIA && HERMES && HAS_IOPORT_MAP 128 help 129 130 This is a driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol 131 firmware, such as Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash 132 cards by Socket Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B. 133 134 This driver requires firmware download on startup. Utilities 135 for downloading Symbol firmware are available at 136 <http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/> 137 138config ORINOCO_USB 139 tristate "Agere Orinoco USB support" 140 depends on USB && HERMES 141 select FW_LOADER 142 help 143 This driver is for USB versions of the Agere Orinoco card. 144