1 The Wavelan drivers saga 2 ------------------------ 3 4 By Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> 5 6 The Wavelan is a Radio network adapter designed by 7Lucent. Under this generic name is hidden quite a variety of hardware, 8and many Linux driver to support it. 9 The get the full story on Wireless LANs, please consult : 10 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ 11 12"wavelan" driver (old ISA Wavelan) 13---------------- 14 o Config : Network device -> Wireless LAN -> AT&T WaveLAN 15 o Location : .../drivers/net/wavelan* 16 o in-line doc : .../drivers/net/wavelan.p.h 17 o on-line doc : 18 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html 19 20 This is the driver for the ISA version of the first generation 21of the Wavelan, now discontinued. The device is 2 Mb/s, composed of a 22Intel 82586 controller and a Lucent Modem, and is NOT 802.11 compliant. 23 The driver has been tested with the following hardware : 24 o Wavelan ISA 915 MHz (full length ISA card) 25 o Wavelan ISA 915 MHz 2.0 (half length ISA card) 26 o Wavelan ISA 2.4 GHz (full length ISA card, fixed frequency) 27 o Wavelan ISA 2.4 GHz 2.0 (half length ISA card, frequency selectable) 28 o Above cards with the optional DES encryption feature 29 30"wavelan_cs" driver (old Pcmcia Wavelan) 31------------------- 32 o Config : Network device -> PCMCIA network -> 33 Pcmcia Wireless LAN -> AT&T/Lucent WaveLAN 34 o Location : .../drivers/net/pcmcia/wavelan* 35 o in-line doc : .../drivers/net/pcmcia/wavelan_cs.h 36 o on-line doc : 37 http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html 38 39 This is the driver for the PCMCIA version of the first 40generation of the Wavelan, now discontinued. The device is 2 Mb/s, 41composed of a Intel 82593 controller (totally different from the 82586) 42and a Lucent Modem, and NOT 802.11 compatible. 43 The driver has been tested with the following hardware : 44 o Wavelan Pcmcia 915 MHz 2.0 (Pcmcia card + separate 45 modem/antenna block) 46 o Wavelan Pcmcia 2.4 GHz 2.0 (Pcmcia card + separate 47 modem/antenna block) 48 49"wvlan_cs" driver (Wavelan IEEE, GPL) 50----------------- 51 o Config : Not yet in kernel 52 o Location : Pcmcia package 3.1.10+ 53 o on-line doc : http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/ 54 55 This is the driver for the current generation of Wavelan IEEE, 56which is 802.11 compatible. Depending on version, it is 2 Mb/s or 11 57Mb/s, with or without encryption, all implemented in Lucent specific 58DSP (the Hermes). 59 This is a GPL full source PCMCIA driver (ISA is just a Pcmcia 60card with ISA-Pcmcia bridge). 61 62"wavelan2_cs" driver (Wavelan IEEE, binary) 63-------------------- 64 o Config : Not yet in kernel 65 o Location : ftp://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/contrib/ 66 67 This driver support exactly the same hardware as the previous 68driver, the main difference is that it is based on a binary library 69and supported by Lucent. 70 71 I hope it clears the confusion ;-) 72 73 Jean 74