1 .\" From jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com Thu Dec 19 18:31:49 1996
2 .\" From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
3 .\" Address: HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K.
4 .\" Jean II - HPLB - '96
7 .\" Provenance of this page is unclear.
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10 .\" Licensed under the GPL,
11 .\" after inquiries with Jean Tourrilhes and Bruce Janson
15 .TH WAVELAN 4 2013-09-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
17 wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
19 .BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ]
21 .I This driver is obsolete:
22 it was removed from the kernel in version 2.6.35.
25 is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
29 wireless ethernet adapter.
30 This driver is available as a module or
31 might be compiled in the kernel.
32 This driver supports multiple cards
33 in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet
34 device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is
35 explicitly specified (see below).
36 This device name will be reported
37 in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID and frequency used
40 This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the
43 If the driver is included in the kernel, use the
45 syntax on the kernel command line.
48 Specify the list of base address where to search for wavelan cards
49 (setting by dip switch on the card).
50 If you don't specify any io
51 address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might
52 conflict with other hardware...
55 Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is
56 saved in permanent storage for future use).
59 Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name
62 .SS Wireless extensions
65 to manipulate wireless extensions.
73 As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be
74 reuse at any further invocation of the driver.
75 .SS Frequency & channels
76 For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
77 specifying one of the 10 defined channels
79 .I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462
82 or directly by its value.
83 The frequency is changed immediately and
85 Frequency availability depends on the regulations...
87 Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last
88 quality of link for each of those (see
90 .SS /proc/net/wireless
92 is the status reported by the modem.
94 reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence
95 spread spectrum) [max = 16].
99 refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64].
101 .I crypt discarded packet
103 .I misc discarded packet
104 counters are not implemented.
108 to manipulate private ioctls.
109 .SS Quality and level threshold
110 Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the
111 modem (packet below that level are discarded).
113 This functionality makes it possible to set a number of
114 signal level intervals and
115 to count the number of packets received in each of those defined
117 This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value
118 and standard deviation of the signal level.
120 This driver will fail to detect some
121 .B non-NCR/ATT&T/Lucent
123 If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on
124 how to add your card to the detection routine.
126 Some of the mentioned features are optional.
127 You may enable to disable
128 them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
130 .\" Bruce Janson \(em bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
132 .\" Jean Tourrilhes \(em jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
134 .\" (and others; see source code for details)