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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/sis900.txt | 257 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX index 5b01d5cc4e9..b1181ce232d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX @@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ routing.txt - the new routing mechanism shaper.txt - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic. -sis900.txt - - SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet device driver info. sk98lin.txt - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter family driver info diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 index 3ab40379d1c..f3fcaa41f77 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 @@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for Linux in support of: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection -Copyright (C) 2003-2005, Intel Corporation +Copyright (C) 2003-2006, Intel Corporation README.ipw2100 -Version: 1.1.3 -Date : October 17, 2005 +Version: git-1.1.5 +Date : January 25, 2006 Index ----------------------------------------------- 0. IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE USING THIS DRIVER 1. Introduction -2. Release 1.1.3 Current Features +2. Release git-1.1.5 Current Features 3. Command Line Parameters 4. Sysfs Helper Files 5. Radio Kill Switch @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ potential fixes and patches, as well as links to the development mailing list for the driver project. -2. Release 1.1.3 Current Supported Features +2. Release git-1.1.5 Current Supported Features ----------------------------------------------- - Managed (BSS) and Ad-Hoc (IBSS) - WEP (shared key and open) @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ For installation support on the ipw2100 1.1.0 driver on Linux kernels 9. License ----------------------------------------------- - Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 index c6492d3839f..acb30c5dcff 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 +++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ both hardware adapters listed above. In this document the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux will be used to reference the unified driver. -Copyright (C) 2004-2005, Intel Corporation +Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Intel Corporation README.ipw2200 @@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ Index 1.2. Module parameters 1.3. Wireless Extension Private Methods 1.4. Sysfs Helper Files +1.5. Supported channels 2. Ad-Hoc Networking 3. Interacting with Wireless Tools 3.1. iwconfig mode +3.2. iwconfig sens 4. About the Version Numbers 5. Firmware installation 6. Support @@ -314,6 +316,35 @@ For the device level files, see /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200: running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default. +1.5. Supported channels +----------------------------------------------- + +Upon loading the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux, a +message stating the detected geography code and the number of 802.11 +channels supported by the card will be displayed in the log. + +The geography code corresponds to a regulatory domain as shown in the +table below. + + Supported channels +Code Geography 802.11bg 802.11a + +--- Restricted 11 0 +ZZF Custom US/Canada 11 8 +ZZD Rest of World 13 0 +ZZA Custom USA & Europe & High 11 13 +ZZB Custom NA & Europe 11 13 +ZZC Custom Japan 11 4 +ZZM Custom 11 0 +ZZE Europe 13 19 +ZZJ Custom Japan 14 4 +ZZR Rest of World 14 0 +ZZH High Band 13 4 +ZZG Custom Europe 13 4 +ZZK Europe 13 24 +ZZL Europe 11 13 + + 2. Ad-Hoc Networking ----------------------------------------------- @@ -353,6 +384,15 @@ When configuring the mode of the adapter, all run-time configured parameters are reset to the value used when the module was loaded. This includes channels, rates, ESSID, etc. +3.2 iwconfig sens +----------------------------------------------- + +The 'iwconfig ethX sens XX' command will not set the signal sensitivity +threshold, as described in iwconfig documentation, but rather the number +of consecutive missed beacons that will trigger handover, i.e. roaming +to another access point. At the same time, it will set the disassociation +threshold to 3 times the given value. + 4. About the Version Numbers ----------------------------------------------- @@ -408,7 +448,7 @@ For general information and support, go to: 7. License ----------------------------------------------- - Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. + Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt b/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bddffd7385a..00000000000 --- a/Documentation/networking/sis900.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,257 +0,0 @@ - -SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver - -Ollie Lho - -Lei Chun Chang - - Copyright © 1999 by Silicon Integrated System Corp. - - This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS - 900/7016 device driver under Linux. - - This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify - it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by - the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at - your option) any later version. - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but - WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of - MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU - General Public License for more details. - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License - along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 - USA - _________________________________________________________________ - - Table of Contents - 1. Introduction - 2. Changes - 3. Tested Environment - 4. Files in This Package - 5. Installation - - Building the driver as loadable module - Building the driver into kernel - - 6. Known Problems and Bugs - 7. Revision History - 8. Acknowledgements - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 1. Introduction - - This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 - Fast Ethernet device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by - Silicon Integrated System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU - General Public License (GPL). The driver can be compiled as a loadable - module and used under Linux kernel version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) With - minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x - kernel (rev. 1.07), please see Chapter 5. If you are intended to use - the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own. - - The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including FTP, - Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers. - - Please send all comments/fixes/questions to Lei-Chun Chang. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 2. Changes - - Changes made in Revision 1.07 - - 1. Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most constant - definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were corrected) - 2. Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not - used, just simple pci_find_*. - 3. MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver. - 4. Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed. - 5. Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and more - comments were added to reflect the real situation. - 6. Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer - descriptors. - 7. Better transmit/receive error handling. - 8. The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management scheme to - improve performance. - 9. Names of variables were changed to be more consistent. - 10. Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code. - 11. Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly. - 12. Bug in mac probing fixed. - 13. Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround - rule. - 14. Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver. - 15. Support for media select by ifconfig. - 16. Added kernel-doc extratable documentation. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 3. Tested Environment - - This driver is developed on the following hardware - - * Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset - * SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card - - and tested with these software environments - - * Red Hat Linux version 6.2 - * Linux kernel version 2.4.0 - * Netscape version 4.6 - * NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18 - * Samba version 2.0.3 - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 4. Files in This Package - - In the package you can find these files: - - sis900.c - Driver source file in C - - sis900.h - Header file for sis900.c - - sis900.sgml - DocBook SGML source of the document - - sis900.txt - Driver document in plain text - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 5. Installation - - Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux - Kernel developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by - the usuall channels for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar - files for official kernel and patches for kernel pre-release can be - download at official kernel ftp site and its mirrors. The 1.06 - revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and - pre-2.2.14, and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. If - you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read - Ethernet HOWTO and Networking HOWTO available from Linux Documentation - Project (LDP). - - The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this - is the most easy case. Be sure you have the appropriate packages for - compiling kernel source. Those packages are listed in Document/Changes - in kernel source distribution. If you have to install the driver other - than those bundled in kernel release, you should have your driver file - sis900.c and sis900.h copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first. - There are two alternative ways to install the driver - _________________________________________________________________ - -Building the driver as loadable module - - To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to - reconfigure the kernel to activate network support by - -make menuconfig - - Choose "Loadable module support --->", then select "Enable loadable - module support". - - Choose "Network Device Support --->", select "Ethernet (10 or - 100Mbit)". Then select "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers", and - choose "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" to "M". - - After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by - -make modules - - The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the - driver, the driver can be installed to proper place by - -make modules_install - - Load the driver into kernel by - -insmod sis900 - - When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be - view by - -dmesg - - or -cat /var/log/message - - If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to - this: - -sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000 -eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4. -eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1. -eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default - - showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine. - - Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by - -/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE - - where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast - address and netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used - by the device. Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps - Ethernet) or "100baseT" (twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more - information on how to configure network interface, please refer to - Networking HOWTO. - - The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after - the network interface is activated, you may have the message: - -eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex - - If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get - -eth0: Media Link Off - - indicating that the link is failed. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Building the driver into kernel - - If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose "Y" rather than "M" - on "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" when configuring - the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way - -make clean - -make bzlilo - - Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 6. Known Problems and Bugs - - There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs - please mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw - - 1. AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some - bugs in the "on the fly" change of transceiver. - 2. A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code, - the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is - caught before bad things happen and reported with the message: - eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping which can be - viewed with dmesg or cat /var/log/message. - 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet - by ifconfig causes the media link down. - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 7. Revision History - - * November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem - fixed and further clean up. - * November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up - and optimization. - * August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release - _________________________________________________________________ - -Chapter 8. Acknowledgements - - This driver was originally derived form Donald Becker's pci-skeleton - and rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion regarded - with improvements made in revision 1.06. - - The 1.05 revision was created by Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 support was - added by Chin-Shan Li. |