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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 | |
| 5 | .\" wavelan.c.4 | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .TH WAVELAN 4 1996-10-22 "Univ. of Sydney (Basser Dep. of Comp. Sci.)" | |
| 8 | .\" | |
| 9 | .\" NAME part | |
| 10 | .\" | |
| 11 | .SH NAME | |
| 12 | wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver | |
| 13 | .\" | |
| 14 | .\" SYNOPSIS part | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 17 | .BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ] | |
| 18 | .\" | |
| 19 | .\" DESCRIPTION part | |
| 20 | .\" | |
| 21 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 22 | .I wavelan | |
| 23 | is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent | |
| 24 | .B WaveLAN ISA | |
| 25 | and Digital (DEC) | |
| 26 | .B RoamAbout DS | |
| 27 | wireless ethernet adapter. This driver is available as a module or | |
| 28 | might be compiled in the kernel. This driver supports multiple cards | |
| 29 | in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet | |
| 30 | device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is | |
| 31 | explicitly specified (see below). This device name will be reported | |
| 32 | in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID and frequency used | |
| 33 | by the card. | |
| 34 | .\" | |
| 35 | .\" PARAMETER part | |
| 36 | .\" | |
| 37 | .SH PARAMETERS | |
| 38 | This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the | |
| 39 | .BR insmod (8) | |
| 40 | command line). If the driver is included in the kernel, use the | |
| 41 | .I ether=IRQ,IO,NAME | |
| 42 | syntax on the kernel command line. | |
| 43 | .TP | |
| 44 | .B io | |
| 45 | Specify the list of base address where to search for wavelan cards | |
| 46 | (setting by dip switch on the card). If you don't specify any io | |
| 47 | address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might | |
| 48 | conflict with other hardware... | |
| 49 | .TP | |
| 50 | .B irq | |
| 51 | Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is | |
| 52 | saved in permanent storage for future use). | |
| 53 | .TP | |
| 54 | .B name | |
| 55 | Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name | |
| 56 | used by | |
| 57 | .BR ifconfig (8)). | |
| 58 | .\" | |
| 59 | .\" WIRELESS part | |
| 60 | .\" | |
| 61 | .SH "WIRELESS EXTENSIONS" | |
| 62 | Use | |
| 63 | .BR iwconfig (8) | |
| 64 | to manipulate wireless extensions. | |
| 65 | .\" NWID sub part | |
| 66 | .SS NWID (or domain) | |
| 67 | Set the network ID | |
| 68 | .RI [ 0 | |
| 69 | to | |
| 70 | .IR FFFF ] | |
| 71 | or disable it | |
| 72 | .RI [ off ]. | |
| 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 | .\" Frequency sub part | |
| 76 | .SS Frequency & channels | |
| 77 | For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by | |
| 78 | specifying one of the 10 defined channels | |
| 79 | .RI ( 2.412, | |
| 80 | .I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 | |
| 81 | or | |
| 82 | .IR 2.484 ) | |
| 83 | or directly by its value. The frequency is changed immediately and | |
| 84 | permanentely. Frequency availability depend on the regulations... | |
| 85 | .\" Spy sub part | |
| 86 | .SS Statistics spy | |
| 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 | |
| 89 | .BR iwspy (8)). | |
| 90 | .\" /proc/net/wireless part | |
| 91 | .SS /proc/net/wireless | |
| 92 | .I status | |
| 93 | is the status reported by the modem. | |
| 94 | .I Link quality | |
| 95 | reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence | |
| 96 | spread spectrum) [max = 16]. | |
| 97 | .I Level | |
| 98 | and | |
| 99 | .I Noise | |
| 100 | refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64]. | |
| 101 | The | |
| 102 | .I crypt discarded packet | |
| 103 | and | |
| 104 | .I misc discarded packet | |
| 105 | counters are not implemented. | |
| 106 | .\" | |
| 107 | .\" IOCTL part | |
| 108 | .\" | |
| 109 | .SH "PRIVATE IOCTL" | |
| 110 | You may use | |
| 111 | .BR iwpriv (8) | |
| 112 | to manipulate private ioctls. | |
| 113 | .\" threshold part | |
| 114 | .SS Quality and Level threshold | |
| 115 | Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the | |
| 116 | modem (packet below that level are discarded). | |
| 117 | .\" Histogram part | |
| 118 | .SS Histogram | |
| 119 | This functionality allow to set a number of signal level intervals and | |
| 120 | to count the number of packets received in each of those defined | |
| 121 | intervals. This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value | |
| 122 | and standard deviation of the signal level. | |
| 123 | .\" | |
| 124 | .\" SPECIFIC part | |
| 125 | .\" | |
| 126 | .SH "SPECIFIC NOTES" | |
| 127 | This driver will fail to detect some | |
| 128 | .B non NCR/ATT&T/Lucent | |
| 129 | Wavelan cards. If it's your case, you must look in the source code on | |
| 130 | how to add your card to the detection routine. | |
| 131 | .PP | |
| 132 | Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable | |
| 133 | them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. | |
| 134 | .\" | |
| 135 | .\" AUTHOR part | |
| 136 | .\" | |
| 137 | .SH AUTHOR | |
| 138 | Bruce Janson \- bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au | |
| 139 | .br | |
| 140 | Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com | |
| 141 | .br | |
| 142 | (+ others - see source code for details) | |
| 143 | .\" | |
| 144 | .\" SEE ALSO part | |
| 145 | .\" | |
| 146 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 147 | .BR wavelan_cs (4), | |
| 148 | .BR ifconfig (8), | |
| 149 | .BR insmod (8), | |
| 150 | .BR iwconfig (8), | |
| 151 | .BR iwspy (8), | |
| 152 | .BR iwpriv (8) |