There are 60+ USB wifi adapters available on the market based on the ZyDAS
ZD1211 chip.
Unlike the predecessor (ZD1201), ZD1211 does not have a hardware MAC, so most
data operations are coordinated by the device driver. The ZD1211 chip sits
alongside an RF transceiver which is also controlled by the driver. Our driver
currently supports 2 RF types, we know of one other available in a few marketed
products which we will be supporting soon.
Our driver also supports the newer revision of ZD1211, called ZD1211B. The
initialization and RF operations are slightly different for the new revision,
but the main difference is 802.11e support. Our driver does not support the
QoS features yet, but we think we know how to use them.
This driver is based on ZyDAS's own GPL driver available from www.zydas.com.tw.
ZyDAS engineers have been responsive and supportive of our efforts, so thumbs
up to them. Additionally, the firmware is redistributable and they have
provided device specs.
This driver has been written primarily by Ulrich Kunitz and myself. Graham
Gower, Greg KH, Remco and Bryan Rittmeyer have also contributed. The
developers of ieee80211 and softmac have made our lives so much easier- thanks!
We maintain a small info-page: http://zd1211.ath.cx/wiki/DriverRewrite
If there is enough time for review, we would like to aim for inclusion in
2.6.18. The driver works nicely as a STA, and can connect to both open and
encrypted networks (we are using software-based encryption for now). We will
work towards supporting more advanced features in the future (ad-hoc, master
mode, 802.11a, ...).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
zd1201 is wifi adapter, yet it is hiding in drivers/usb/net where
noone can find it. This moves Kconfig/Makefile zd1201 to the right
place.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Makefile both IPW2200_RADIOTAP and IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS depend on
IPW2200_MONITOR. Let IPW2200_PROMISCUOUS select IPW2200_RADIOTAP.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
With this patch, a new promiscuous mode is enabled. If the module is loaded
with the rtap_iface=1 module parameter, two interfaces will be created
(instead of just one).
The second interface is prefixed 'rtap' and provides received 802.11 frames
on the current channel to user space in a radiotap header format.
Example usage:
% modprobe ipw2200 rtap_iface=1
% iwconfig eth1 essid MyNetwork
% dhcpcd eth1
% tcpdump -i rtap0
If you do not specify 'rtap_iface=1' then the rtap interface will
not be created and you will need to turn it on via:
% echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_iface
You can filter out what type of information is passed to user space via
the rtap_filter sysfs entry. Currently you can tell the driver to
transmit just the headers (which will provide the RADIOTAP and IEEE
802.11 header but not the payload), to filter based on frame control
type (Management, Control, or Data), and whether to report transmitted
frames, received frames, or both.
The transmit frame reporting is based on a patch by Stefan Rompf.
Filters can be get and set via a sysfs interface. For example, set the
filter to only send headers (0x7), don't report Tx'd frames (0x10), and
don't report data frames (0x100):
% echo 0x117 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rtap_filter
All your packets are belong to us:
% tethereal -n -i rtap0
Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2.6.17-rc1 changed the title for the entry CONFIG_NET_RADIO. I
personally disagree with this change and want it reverted. Patch for
2.6.17-rc1.
Rationale : WIRELESS_EXT is an invisible option. Therefore,
the only way for a user to enable it is via NET_RADIO. Some users need
to do that for out-of-tree drivers. Therefore it should be mentionned
in the title of the option.
Rationale2 : the option just below is called "Wireless
Extension API over RtNetlink". Some users may confuse this option for
the main "Wireless Extension" option. Therefore reverting this change
help disambiguate the relation between those two options.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
kconfig sanitized around drivers/net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
PCMCIA_SPECTRUM must select FW_LOADER.
Reported by "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@ums.usu.ru>.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I accidentally ended up with a config that set NET_RADIO off,
and NET_WIRELESS_RTNETLINK on, which blew up thus..
net/built-in.o: In function `do_setlink':net/core/rtnetlink.c:479: undefined reference to `wireless_rtnetlink_set'
net/built-in.o: In function `do_getlink':net/core/rtnetlink.c:521: undefined reference to `wireless_rtnetlink_get'
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is version 20 of the Wireless Extensions. This is the
completion of the RtNetlink work I started early 2004, it enables the
full Wireless Extension API over RtNetlink.
Few comments on the patch :
o totally driver transparent, no change in drivers needed.
o iwevent were already RtNetlink based since they were created
(around 2.5.7). This adds all the regular SET and GET requests over
RtNetlink, using the exact same mechanism and data format as iwevents.
o This is a Kconfig option, as currently most people have no
need for it. Surprisingly, patch is actually small and well
encapsulated.
o Tested on SMP, attention as been paid to make it 64 bits clean.
o Code do probably too many checks and could be further
optimised, but better safe than sorry.
o RtNetlink based version of the Wireless Tools available on
my web page for people inclined to try out this stuff.
I would also like to thank Alexey Kuznetsov for his helpful
suggestions to make this patch better.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch corrects a few spelling and grammar errors found in
drivers/net
Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
I have made a stupid copy&paste error: QoS option is named IPW_QOS not
IPW2200_MONITOR. Spotted by Daniel Paschka, thanks.
Add the following config entries for the ipw2200 driver to
drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
* IPW2200_MONITOR
enables Monitor mode
* IPW_QOS
enables QoS feature - this is under development right now, so it depends
upon EXPERIMENTAL
Signed-off-by: Andreas Happe <andreashappe@snikt.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch makes the IPW2100 and IPW2200 options available in
the configuration menu even if IEEE80211 has not been selected before.
This behaviour is more intuitive for people which are not familiar with
the driver internals.
The suggestion for this change was made by Alejandro Bonilla Beeche.
Signed-off-by: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware.
Found by Alejandro Bonilla.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CRYPTO is a helper variable, and to make it easier for users, it should
therefore select'ed and not be listed in the dependencies.
drivers/net/wireless/airo.c requires CONFIG_CRYPTO for compilations.
Therefore, AIRO_CS also has to CRYPTO.
Additionally, this patch removes the #ifdef's for the non-compiling
CRYPTO=n case from drivers/net/wireless/airo.c.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch contains the following changes:
- add a CONFIG_WIRELESS_EXT select'ed by NET_RADIO for conditional
code
- remove the now no longer required #ifdef CONFIG_NET_RADIO from some
#include's
Based on a patch by Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
airo.c currently has MICSUPPORT enabled, which requires CONFIG_CRYPTO. A
user reported a build failure which is due to the lack of a Kconfig
dependency. See http://bugs.debian.org/344205.
This patch makes Kconfig enforce this dependency.
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
There are currently two IPW_DEBUG options in drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
(one for ipw2100 and one for ipw2200). The attached patch splits it into
IPW2100_DEBUG and IPW2200_DEBUG.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: "James P. Ketrenos" <ipw2100-admin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
- Use kzalloc for IPW2200
- Fix config dependency for IPW2200
Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org>
Cc: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yi Zhu <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* Merge PCMCIA card table with new Brodowski PCMCIA id table.
* Add missing entries to PCMCIA id table.
* Other tweaks to conform with Documentation/driver-changes.txt
(types, call request_region, etc)
* Fix size of requested IO region.
* Reduce printk verbosity.
* Remove EXPERIMENTAL
* tweak to association code - don't force shared key authentication
when wep in use.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
The aironet PCI driver has a build dependency on ISA that prevent the
driver to compile on systems that doesn't support ISA, like x86_64. The
driver really doesn't depend on ISA, it does some ISA stuff in the
initialization code, since the driver supports both ISA and PCI cards. So
the driver should depend on ISA_DMA_API to build on all systems, and this
will not hurt PCI at all.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <3297627799@wind.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
diff-tree dee4f325520d4ea29397dd67ca657b7235bb1790 (from c88faac230cc9775445e5c644991c352e35c72a1)
Author: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Thu Sep 1 17:46:39 2005 -0400
New driver - spectrum_cs.
Driver for 802.11b cards using RAM-loadable Symbol firmware, such as
Symbol Wireless Networker LA4100, CompactFlash cards by Socket
Communications and Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B.
The driver implements Symbol firmware download. The rest is handled
in hermes.c and orinoco.c.
Utilities for downloading the Symbol firmware are available at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orinoco/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
diff-tree dce61aef99ceb57370b70222dc34d788666c0ac3 (from ceb6695092be8dcdfe2dec6ee5097d613011489d)
Author: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Thu Sep 1 15:50:55 2005 -0400
New driver - orinoco_nortel.
This is a driver for Nortel emobility PCI adaptors, which consist of an
Orinoco compatible PCMCIA card and a simple PCI-to-PCMCIA bridge. The
driver initializes the device and uses Orinoco core driver for actual
wireless networking.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
diff-tree ceb6695092be8dcdfe2dec6ee5097d613011489d (from 6b39374a27)
Author: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Date: Thu Sep 1 14:50:10 2005 -0400
Remove EXPERIMENTAL mark from PLX_HERMES, TMD_HERMES and PCI_HERMES.
Those drivers have been used for a long time, and there have been very
few problem reports.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
airo_cs is broken on m32r; marked as such. [Proper fix would involve
separating PCI-dependent parts and making sure they don't get in the
way _and_ arranging for asm/scatterlist.h getting picked on m32r]
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This results in recursive dependencies:
- IPW2200 depends on NET_RADIO
- IPW2200 selects IEEE80211
- IEEE80211 selects NET_RADIO
This patch fixes the IPW2200 dependencies in a way that they are similar
to the IPW2100 dependencies.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Version 2 of the 3com OfficeConnect 11g Cardbus Card aka 3CRWE154G72 is not
supported by the prism54 project. To stop confusion, the kernel
documentation should state so as 3com made a good job hiding the version.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
diff -puN drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig~wireless-3crwe154g72-kconfig-help-fix drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
