wavelan — AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver .\" .\" SYNOPSIS part .\"
insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=B,B..] [ irq=I,I..] [name=N,N..]
wavelan
is the
low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
WaveLAN ISA and
Digital (DEC) 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.
This section apply to the module form (parameters passed
on the insmod(8) command line). If
the driver is included in the kernel, use the ether=IRQ,IO,NAME
syntax on
the kernel command line.
Specify the list of base address 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...
Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is saved in permanent storage for future use).
Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name used by ifconfig(8)).
Set the network ID [0
to
FFFF
] or disable it
[off
]. As the
NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will
be reuse at any further invocation of the driver.
For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the
frequency by specifying one of the 10 defined channels
(2.412,
2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432,
2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 or 2.484
) or directly by its
value. The frequency is changed immediately and
permanently. Frequency availability depends on the
regulations...
Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last quality of link for each of those (see iwspy(8)).
status
is the
status reported by the modem. Link quality reports the quality
of the modulation on the air (direct sequence spread
spectrum) [max = 16]. Level
and Noise
refer to the signal
level and noise level [max = 64]. The crypt discarded packet and
misc discarded
packet counters are not implemented.
Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the modem (packet below that level are discarded).
This functionality allow 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.
This driver will fail to detect some non NCR/ATT&T/Lucent Wavelan cards. If it's your case, you must look in the source code on how to add your card to the detection routine.
Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
Bruce Janson — bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
Jean Tourrilhes — jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
(and others; see source code for details)
wavelan_cs(4), ifconfig(8), insmod(8), iwconfig(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8)
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