1 # acx100 driver, available at http://acx100.sourceforge.net
3 tristate "Texas Instruments ACX100/ACX111 (TNETW1xxx) cards"
4 depends on NET_RADIO && PCI && !SMP
7 A driver for almost all wireless cards based on Texas Instruments'
8 very poorly vendor-supported ACX100 wireless network chip
9 (except for USB and Compact Flash implementations, which are
10 both extremely rare -- semi-stable USB support exists for
11 2.4.x, but 2.6.x USB support is not quite functional at all
12 yet). Almost working ACX111 support is in the driver, but it's
13 still not quite working yet, due to many changes compared to
14 the ACX100. This driver supports standard Linux wireless
15 extensions to a very wide extent.
17 Currently this driver still is a bit experimental. We're still not
18 totally sure about the status of WEP support. Many situations
19 should work, but it might still not work properly or fail sometimes.
21 Also, SMP appears to be problematic (locking issues).
23 Furthermore, associating with some access points might still be
24 problematic due to strict 802.11 compliance checks in their
27 Master mode support (aka HostAP) has not been implemented completely
28 yet, but at least it can be configured now. The non-standard 4x
29 mode (aka "44Mbps") is NOT supported yet and will need several
32 You can use the driver compiled in the kernel or as a module:
33 the module will be called acx_pci.
35 This driver needs a firmware to work and since firmware image and
36 radio image can't be provided with this driver, you need to find
37 it by yourself (please read the README provided with the 'acx100'
40 The driver expects the firmware files to be placed in the
41 firmware directory /usr/share/acx/ by default. If you intend to
42 use a custom firmware directory, then in case you're using a
43 driver module, you should specify/configure the module parameter
44 firmware_dir=[full path to the firmware directory], and in case
45 you are using the builtin driver, you need to give the kernel
46 boot parameter acx_firmware_dir=[full path to the firmware directory].
48 The 'acx100' project page is at <http://acx100.sourceforge.net>.
50 You can find a useful HOWTO for Mandrake, Slackware, Red Hat and
51 Debian (Knoppix) at <http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php>.
53 You will very likely also need the Wireless Tools in order to
54 configure your card and to make /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts work:
55 <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html>.
57 The Linux hotplug package is required for automatic setup of
58 CardBus cards and for proper ACX100 USB card operations.