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
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10 .\" Licensed under the GPL,
11 .\" after inquiries with Jean Tourrilhes and Bruce Janson
15 .TH WAVELAN 4 2021-03-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
17 wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
20 .BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ]
23 .I This driver is obsolete:
24 it was removed from the kernel in version 2.6.35.
27 is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
31 wireless ethernet adapter.
32 This driver is available as a module or
33 might be compiled in the kernel.
34 This driver supports multiple cards
35 in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet
36 device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is
37 explicitly specified (see below).
38 This device name will be reported
39 in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID, and frequency used
42 This section applies to the module form (parameters passed on the
45 If the driver is included in the kernel, use the
47 syntax on the kernel command line.
50 Specify the list of base addresses where to search for wavelan cards
51 (setting by dip switch on the card).
52 If you don't specify any io
53 address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might
54 conflict with other hardware...
57 Set the list of IRQs that each wavelan card should use (the value is
58 saved in permanent storage for future use).
61 Set the list of names to be used for each wavelan card device (name
64 .SS Wireless extensions
67 to manipulate wireless extensions.
75 As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be
76 reused at any further invocation of the driver.
77 .SS Frequency & channels
78 For the 2.4\ GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
79 specifying one of the 10 defined channels
81 .I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462
84 or directly as a numeric value.
85 The frequency is changed immediately and
87 Frequency availability depends on the regulations...
89 Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last
90 quality of link for each of those (see
92 .SS /proc/net/wireless
94 is the status reported by the modem.
96 reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence
97 spread spectrum) [max = 16].
101 refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64].
103 .I crypt discarded packet
105 .I misc discarded packet
106 counters are not implemented.
110 to manipulate private ioctls.
111 .SS Quality and level threshold
112 Enables you to define the quality and level threshold used by the
113 modem (packet below that level are discarded).
115 This functionality makes it possible to set a number of
116 signal level intervals and
117 to count the number of packets received in each of those defined
119 This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value
120 and standard deviation of the signal level.
122 This driver fails to detect some
123 .B non-NCR/AT&T/Lucent
125 If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on
126 how to add your card to the detection routine.
128 Some of the mentioned features are optional.
129 You may enable to disable
130 them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
132 .\" Bruce Janson \(em bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
134 .\" Jean Tourrilhes \(em jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
136 .\" (and others; see source code for details)