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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12 This driver is obsolete: it was removed from the kernel in version
13 2.6.35.
14 wavelan is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
16 WaveLAN ISA and Digital (DEC) RoamAbout DS wireless ethernet adapter.
17 This driver is available as a module or might be compiled in the ker‐
18 nel. This driver supports multiple cards in both forms (up to 4) and
19 allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#) for each card
20 found, unless a device name is explicitly specified (see below). This
21 device name will be reported in the kernel log file with the MAC ad‐
22 dress, NWID, and frequency used by the card.
23 Parameters
25 This section applies to the module form (parameters passed on the ins‐
26 mod(8) command line). If the driver is included in the kernel, use the
27 ether=IRQ,IO,NAME syntax on the kernel command line.
28 io Specify the list of base addresses where to search for wavelan
30 cards (setting by dip switch on the card). If you don't specify
31 any io address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses,
32 which might conflict with other hardware...
33 irq Set the list of IRQs that each wavelan card should use (the
35 value is saved in permanent storage for future use).
36 name Set the list of names to be used for each wavelan card device
38 (name used by ifconfig(8)).
39 Wireless extensions
41 Use iwconfig(8) to manipulate wireless extensions.
42 NWID (or domain)
44 Set the network ID [0 to FFFF] or disable it [off]. As the NWID is
45 stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be reused at any
46 further invocation of the driver.
47 Frequency & channels
49 For the 2.4 GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
50 specifying one of the 10 defined channels (2.412, 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305,
51 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 or 2.484) or directly as a numeric
52 value. The frequency is changed immediately and permanently. Fre‐
53 quency availability depends on the regulations...
54 Statistics spy
56 Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last
57 quality of link for each of those (see iwspy(8)).
58 /proc/net/wireless
60 status is the status reported by the modem. Link quality reports the
61 quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence spread spectrum)
62 [max = 16]. Level and Noise refer to the signal level and noise level
63 [max = 64]. The crypt discarded packet and misc discarded packet coun‐
64 ters are not implemented.
65 Private ioctl
67 You may use iwpriv(8) to manipulate private ioctls.
68 Quality and level threshold
70 Enables you to define the quality and level threshold used by the modem
71 (packet below that level are discarded).
72 Histogram
74 This functionality makes it possible to set a number of signal level
75 intervals and to count the number of packets received in each of those
76 defined intervals. This distribution might be used to calculate the
77 mean value and standard deviation of the signal level.
78 Specific notes
80 This driver fails to detect some non-NCR/AT&T/Lucent Wavelan cards. If
81 this happens for you, you must look in the source code on how to add
82 your card to the detection routine.
83 Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable
85 them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
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88 wavelan_cs(4), ifconfig(8), insmod(8), iwconfig(8), iwpriv(8), iwspy(8)
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91 This page is part of release 5.12 of the Linux man-pages project. A
92 description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
93 latest version of this page, can be found at
94 https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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