The Linux Wireless LAN Howto is an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and built with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.
I first got involved in the Wireless LAN world by hacking the Wavelan drivers for Linux. I'm quite curious, so I start gathering information to know how the damn beasty was working.
Then, I realised that there was no central point where you could find all this information, links to the drivers and issues with Linux. So, I start stuffing it on my web pages, and it slowly evolved to what you see now.
I'm no longer active on the Wavelan drivers, but I'm also still following the work of Wireless LAN (called as well WLAN or Radio Ethernet), especially in relation with Linux. So, once every century, I update my Linux Wireless LAN Howto (html and pdf available below) and the collection of URLs (after the howto). I hope that it is usefull to someone
I first got involved in the Wireless LAN world by hacking the Wavelan drivers for Linux. I'm quite curious, so I start gathering information to know how the damn beasty was working.
Then, I realised that there was no central point where you could find all this information, links to the drivers and issues with Linux. So, I start stuffing it on my web pages, and it slowly evolved to what you see now.
I'm no longer active on the Wavelan drivers, but I'm also still following the work of Wireless LAN (called as well WLAN or Radio Ethernet), especially in relation with Linux. So, once every century, I update my Linux Wireless LAN Howto (html and pdf available below) and the collection of URLs (after the howto). I hope that it is usefull to someone
The Linux Wireless LAN Howto
I've decided to collect all the information about Wireless LANs and Linux that I was able to find. The goal was also to document my work and to become famous :-) You will find all that information in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto, available in PostScript, PDF and HTML (see below). The original Linux Wireless LAN Howto is available as 3 postscript or acrobat (PDF) documents, which contains the same material but with the original presentation. So if you wish to enjoy a better reading experience or to print it, use those documents :| PostScript : | Acrobat (pdf) : |
The translation of the Howto to HTML lack the presentation but is more browser friendly, with cross references, external web links and support of HTML navigation. It is composed of the following documents :
- Introduction
- The devices, the drivers - pre-802.11, early 802.11
- Lucent Wavelan & DEC RoamAbout DS (wavelan, wavelan_cs)
- Netwave AirSurfer & Xircom Netwave (netwave_cs)
- Netwave AirSurfer plus
- Harris Prism based cards : BayStack 660, ZoomAir, YDI and other...
- Z-Com LANEscape, ELSA MC2, Siemens I-Gate
- Proxim RangeLan2, Proxim Symphony & DEC RoamAbout FH
- Symbol Spectrum24 (FH) (spectrum24_cs)
- Aironet ARLAN (arlan)
- Raytheon Raylink, WebGear Aviator2.4 & Aviator Pro and BUSlink wireless LAN
- Diamond Multimedia HomeFree
- BreezeCom BreezeNet Pcmcia
- BreezeCom BreezeNet (not Pcmcia)
- The devices, the drivers - 802.11b
- Lucent Wavelan IEEE, Lucent Orinoco, Apple Airport Enterasys RoamAbout 802, Elsa AirLancer 11 & Melco/Buffalo 802.11b
- Obsolete GPL driver in Pcmcia package (wvlan_cs)
- MPL/GPL driver in Kernel (orinoco_cs)
- binary library driver from Lucent, Enterasys & Agere (wavelan2_cs, roamabout_cs, wlags49_cs)
- MPL/GPL USB driver (orinoco_usb)
- GPL Airport driver (airport)
- Intersil PrismII based cards (the most common 802.11b cards)
- MPL driver (linux-wlan-ng) (prism2_cs)
- PrismII support in the Orinoco driver (orinoco_cs)
- GPL driver with HostAP mode (hostap_cs)
- Samsung binary library driver (swld11_cs)
- Symbol Spectrum24 High Rate (802.11b), 3Com AirConnect, Intel PRO/Wireless and Socket Communication
- Symbol GPL driver (spectrum24t_cs)
- Ericsson GPL driver (eriwlan_cs)
- Symbol High Rate support in the Orinoco driver (orinoco_cs)
- Symbol CF driver based on the Orinoco driver (spectrum_cs)
- Aironet ARLAN 4500, 4800, Cisco 340 and Cisco 350 series
- MPL driver (airo/airo_cs)
- Alternate GPL driver (aironet4500_card/aironet4500_cs)
- Cisco OpenSource driver (airo/airo_cs)
- No Wires Needed Swallow (and BreezeCom DS11) (swallow_cs)
- No Wires Needed 1148, old 3Com XJack (poldhu_cs)
- Nokia C110/C111
- Atmel AT76C502A/AT76C503A cards (802.11b USB and Pcmcia)
- Atmel USB/Pcmcia GPL driver (vnetusb)
- Alternate USB GPL driver (at76c503)
- Alternate Pcmcia GPL driver (atmel_cs)
- ADMtek ADM8211 based cards
- ADMtek binary driver (8211)
- Alternate GPL driver (adm8211)
- Realtek RTL8180L cards
- Realtek binary driver (rtl8180_24x)
- Alternate GPL driver (r8180)
- Ralink RT2400 cards
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 card (Centrino MiniPCI)
- ZyDAS ZD1201 (USB dongles)
- SiS 160/162
- Lucent Wavelan IEEE, Lucent Orinoco, Apple Airport Enterasys RoamAbout 802, Elsa AirLancer 11 & Melco/Buffalo 802.11b
- The devices, the drivers - 802.11a, 802.11g, 802.11n
- TI ACX100 OpenSource driver (All 802.11b+ cards)
- Atheros AR5210/AR5211/AR5212 cards (most cards with 802.11a)
- Intersil PrismIndigo, PrismGT and PrismDuette cards (prism54)
- FullMAC driver (Prism54)
- SoftMAC driver (islsm)
- mac80211 driver (p54)
- Intel PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 cards (Centrino AG MiniPCI)
- standard driver (ipw2200)
- HostAP driver (ipw2200-ap)
- Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 cards (Centrino ABG MiniPCI)
- Intel stack driver (ipw3945)
- mac80211 driver (iwlwifi)
- Intel PRO/Wireless 4965 cards (Centrino AGN MiniPCI)
- Ralink RT2500 cards
- Ralink driver (rt2x00)
- BSD driver (ural-linux)
- Broadcom 43xx
- ZyDAS ZD1211
- Zydas driver (zd1211)
- SoftMAC driver (zd1211rw)
- Realtek RTL8185L & RTL8187L
- Original PCI/Cardbus/USB driver (r8180/r8187)
- mac80211 USB driver (rtl8187)
- Marvel Libertas
- AirgoNetworks AGNX00 (TrueMIMO)
- The devices, the drivers - other
- Wireless LANs in use
- Choice, features & interoperability
- Which vendor ; How to identify a card
- Installation, configuration & documentation
- Deployement issues (topology, performance, reliability, coverage, security...)
- Wireless Extensions for Linux
- Wireless LAN technology overview
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment