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diff --git a/man/man4/wavelan.4 b/man/man4/wavelan.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ad2532cbc --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man4/wavelan.4 @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ +.\" From jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com Thu Dec 19 18:31:49 1996 +.\" From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com> +.\" Address: HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K. +.\" Jean II - HPLB - '96 +.\" wavelan.c.4 +.\" +.\" Provenance of this page is unclear. +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later +.\" +.TH wavelan 4 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ] +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I This driver is obsolete: +it was removed in Linux 2.6.35. +.P +.B wavelan +is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent +.B WaveLAN ISA +and Digital (DEC) +.B 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. +.SS Parameters +This section applies to the module form (parameters passed on the +.BR insmod (8) +command line). +If the driver is included in the kernel, use the +.I ether=IRQ,IO,NAME +syntax on the kernel command line. +.TP +.B io +Specify the list of base addresses 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... +.TP +.B irq +Set the list of IRQs that each wavelan card should use (the value is +saved in permanent storage for future use). +.TP +.B name +Set the list of names to be used for each wavelan card device (name +used by +.BR ifconfig (8)). +.SS Wireless extensions +Use +.BR iwconfig (8) +to manipulate wireless extensions. +.SS NWID (or domain) +Set the network ID +.RI [ 0 +to +.IR FFFF ] +or disable it +.RI [ off ]. +As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be +reused at any further invocation of the driver. +.SS Frequency & channels +For the 2.4\ GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by +specifying one of the 10 defined channels +.RI ( 2.412, +.I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 +or +.IR 2.484 ) +or directly as a numeric value. +The frequency is changed immediately and +permanently. +Frequency availability depends on the regulations... +.SS Statistics spy +Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last +quality of link for each of those (see +.BR iwspy (8)). +.SS /proc/net/wireless +.I status +is the status reported by the modem. +.I Link quality +reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence +spread spectrum) [max = 16]. +.I Level +and +.I Noise +refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64]. +The +.I crypt discarded packet +and +.I misc discarded packet +counters are not implemented. +.SS Private ioctl +You may use +.BR iwpriv (8) +to manipulate private ioctls. +.SS Quality and level threshold +Enables you to define the quality and level threshold used by the +modem (packet below that level are discarded). +.SS Histogram +This functionality makes it possible 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. +.SS Specific notes +This driver fails to detect some +.B non-NCR/AT&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. +.P +Some of the mentioned features are optional. +You may enable or disable +them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. +.\" .SH AUTHOR +.\" Bruce Janson \[em] bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au +.\" .br +.\" Jean Tourrilhes \[em] jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com +.\" .br +.\" (and others; see source code for details) +.\" +.\" SEE ALSO part +.\" +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR wavelan_cs (4), +.BR ifconfig (8), +.BR insmod (8), +.BR iwconfig (8), +.BR iwpriv (8), +.BR iwspy (8) |