NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON
WAVELAN(4) Linux Programmer's Manual WAVELAN(4)
wavelan - AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
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.
io 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...
irq Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is
saved in permanent storage for future use).
name Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name
used by ifconfig(8)).
Use iwconfig(8) to manipulate wireless extensions.
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.
You may use iwpriv(8) to manipulate private ioctls.
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
this happens for you, 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.
wavelan_cs(4), ifconfig(8), insmod(8), iwconfig(8), iwpriv(8), iwspy(8)
This page is part of release 3.23 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found
at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
Linux 1996-10-22 WAVELAN(4)