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diff --git a/man4/wavelan.4 b/man4/wavelan.4 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b939522f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/man4/wavelan.4 @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +.\" 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 +.\" +.TH WAVELAN 4 1996-10-22 "Univ. of Sydney (Basser Dep. of Comp. Sci.)" +.\" +.\" NAME part +.\" +.SH NAME +wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver +.\" +.\" SYNOPSIS part +.\" +.SH SYNOPSIS +.BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ] +.\" +.\" DESCRIPTION part +.\" +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I 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. +.\" +.\" PARAMETER part +.\" +.SH PARAMETERS +This section apply 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 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... +.TP +.B irq +Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is +saved in permanent storage for future use). +.TP +.B name +Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name +used by +.BR ifconfig (8)). +.\" +.\" WIRELESS part +.\" +.SH "WIRELESS EXTENSIONS" +Use +.BR iwconfig (8) +to manipulate wireless extensions. +.\" NWID sub part +.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 +reuse at any further invocation of the driver. +.\" Frequency sub part +.SS Frequency & channels +For the 2.4GHz 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 by its value. The frequency is changed immediately and +permanentely. Frequency availability depend on the regulations... +.\" Spy sub part +.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)). +.\" /proc/net/wireless part +.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. +.\" +.\" IOCTL part +.\" +.SH "PRIVATE IOCTL" +You may use +.BR iwpriv (8) +to manipulate private ioctls. +.\" threshold part +.SS Quality and Level threshold +Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the +modem (packet below that level are discarded). +.\" Histogram part +.SS Histogram +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. +.\" +.\" SPECIFIC part +.\" +.SH "SPECIFIC NOTES" +This driver will fail to detect some +.B non NCR/ATT&T/Lucent +Wavelan cards. If it's your case, you must look in the source code on +how to add your card to the detection routine. +.PP +Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable +them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. +.\" +.\" AUTHOR part +.\" +.SH AUTHOR +Bruce Janson \- bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au +.br +Jean Tourrilhes \- jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com +.br +(+ 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 iwspy (8), +.BR iwpriv (8) |