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6 wavelan - AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
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9 insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=B,B..] [ irq=I,I..] [name=N,N..]
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12 wavelan is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
13 WaveLAN ISA and Digital (DEC) RoamAbout DS wireless ethernet adapter.
14 This driver is available as a module or might be compiled in the ker‐
15 nel. This driver supports multiple cards in both forms (up to 4) and
16 allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#) for each card
17 found, unless a device name is explicitly specified (see below). This
18 device name will be reported in the kernel log file with the MAC
19 address, NWID and frequency used by the card.
20 Parameters
22 This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the ins‐
23 mod(8) command line). If the driver is included in the kernel, use the
24 ether=IRQ,IO,NAME syntax on the kernel command line.
25 io Specify the list of base address where to search for wavelan
27 cards (setting by dip switch on the card). If you don't specify
28 any io address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses,
29 which might conflict with other hardware...
30 irq Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value
32 is saved in permanent storage for future use).
33 name Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device
35 (name used by ifconfig(8)).
36 Wireless Extensions
38 Use iwconfig(8) to manipulate wireless extensions.
39 NWID (or domain)
41 Set the network ID [0 to FFFF] or disable it [off]. As the NWID is
42 stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be reuse at any fur‐
43 ther invocation of the driver.
44 Frequency & channels
46 For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
47 specifying one of the 10 defined channels (2.412, 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305,
48 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 or 2.484) or directly by its value.
49 The frequency is changed immediately and permanently. Frequency avail‐
50 ability depends on the regulations...
51 Statistics spy
53 Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last
54 quality of link for each of those (see iwspy(8)).
55 /proc/net/wireless
57 status is the status reported by the modem. Link quality reports the
58 quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence spread spectrum)
59 [max = 16]. Level and Noise refer to the signal level and noise level
60 [max = 64]. The crypt discarded packet and misc discarded packet coun‐
61 ters are not implemented.
62 Private Ioctl
64 You may use iwpriv(8) to manipulate private ioctls.
65 Quality and Level threshold
67 Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the modem
68 (packet below that level are discarded).
69 Histogram
71 This functionality allow to set a number of signal level intervals and
72 to count the number of packets received in each of those defined inter‐
73 vals. This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value and
74 standard deviation of the signal level.
75 Specific Notes
77 This driver will fail to detect some non-NCR/ATT&T/Lucent Wavelan
78 cards. If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on
79 how to add your card to the detection routine.
80 Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable
82 them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
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85 wavelan_cs(4), ifconfig(8), insmod(8), iwconfig(8), iwpriv(8), iwspy(8)
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88 This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A
89 description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
90 be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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