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.\" From jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com Thu Dec 19 18:31:49 1996
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.\" From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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.\" Address: HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K.
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.\" Jean II - HPLB - '96
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.\" wavelan.c.4
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.\" Provenance of this page is unclear. Licensed under the GPL,
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.\" after inquiries with Jean Tourrilhes and Bruce Janson
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.\" (mtk, July 2006)
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.\"
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.TH WAVELAN 4 1996-10-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.\" NAME part
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.\"
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.SH NAME
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wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver
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.\"
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.\" SYNOPSIS part
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.\"
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ]
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.\"
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.\" DESCRIPTION part
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.\"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I wavelan
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is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent
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.B WaveLAN ISA
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and Digital (DEC)
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.B RoamAbout DS
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wireless ethernet adapter.
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This driver is available as a module or
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might be compiled in the kernel.
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This driver supports multiple cards
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in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet
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device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is
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explicitly specified (see below).
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This device name will be reported
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in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID and frequency used
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by the card.
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.\"
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.\" PARAMETER part
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.SS Parameters
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This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the
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.BR insmod (8)
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command line).
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If the driver is included in the kernel, use the
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.I ether=IRQ,IO,NAME
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syntax on the kernel command line.
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.TP
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.B io
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Specify the list of base address where to search for wavelan cards
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(setting by dip switch on the card).
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If you don't specify any io
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address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might
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conflict with other hardware...
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.TP
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.B irq
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Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is
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saved in permanent storage for future use).
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.TP
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.B name
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Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name
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used by
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.BR ifconfig (8)).
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.\"
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.\" WIRELESS part
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.\"
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.SS "Wireless Extensions"
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Use
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.BR iwconfig (8)
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to manipulate wireless extensions.
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.\" NWID sub part
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.SS NWID (or domain)
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Set the network ID
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.RI [ 0
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to
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.IR FFFF ]
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or disable it
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.RI [ off ].
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As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be
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reuse at any further invocation of the driver.
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.\" Frequency sub part
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.SS Frequency & channels
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For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by
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specifying one of the 10 defined channels
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.RI ( 2.412,
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.I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462
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or
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.IR 2.484 )
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or directly by its value.
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The frequency is changed immediately and
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permanently.
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Frequency availability depends on the regulations...
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.\" Spy sub part
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.SS Statistics spy
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Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last
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quality of link for each of those (see
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.BR iwspy (8)).
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.\" /proc/net/wireless part
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.SS /proc/net/wireless
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.I status
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is the status reported by the modem.
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.I Link quality
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reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence
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spread spectrum) [max = 16].
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.I Level
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and
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.I Noise
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refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64].
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The
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.I crypt discarded packet
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and
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.I misc discarded packet
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counters are not implemented.
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.\"
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.\" IOCTL part
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.\"
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.SS "Private Ioctl"
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You may use
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.BR iwpriv (8)
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to manipulate private ioctls.
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.\" threshold part
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.SS Quality and Level threshold
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Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the
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modem (packet below that level are discarded).
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.\" Histogram part
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.SS Histogram
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This functionality allow to set a number of signal level intervals and
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to count the number of packets received in each of those defined
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intervals.
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This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value
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and standard deviation of the signal level.
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.\"
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.\" SPECIFIC part
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.\"
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.SS "Specific Notes"
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This driver will fail to detect some
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.B non NCR/ATT&T/Lucent
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Wavelan cards.
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If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on
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how to add your card to the detection routine.
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.PP
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Some of the mentioned features are optional.
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You may enable to disable
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them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile.
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.\"
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.\" AUTHOR part
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.\"
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.SH AUTHOR
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Bruce Janson \(em bruce@cs.usyd.edu.au
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.br
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Jean Tourrilhes \(em jt@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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.br
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(and others; see source code for details)
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.\"
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.\" SEE ALSO part
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.\"
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR wavelan_cs (4),
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.BR ifconfig (8),
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.BR insmod (8),
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.BR iwconfig (8),
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.BR iwspy (8),
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.BR iwpriv (8)
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