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The Wavelan drivers saga
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By Jean Tourrilhes
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The Wavelan is a Radio network adapter designed by
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Lucent. Under this generic name is hidden quite a variety of hardware,
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and many Linux driver to support it.
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The get the full story on Wireless LANs, please consult :
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
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"wavelan" driver (old ISA Wavelan)
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o Config : Network device -> Wireless LAN -> AT&T WaveLAN
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o Location : .../drivers/net/wavelan*
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o in-line doc : .../drivers/net/wavelan.p.h
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o on-line doc :
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html
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This is the driver for the ISA version of the first generation
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of the Wavelan, now discontinued. The device is 2 Mb/s, composed of a
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Intel 82586 controller and a Lucent Modem, and is NOT 802.11 compliant.
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The driver has been tested with the following hardware :
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o Wavelan ISA 915 MHz (full length ISA card)
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o Wavelan ISA 915 MHz 2.0 (half length ISA card)
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o Wavelan ISA 2.4 GHz (full length ISA card, fixed frequency)
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o Wavelan ISA 2.4 GHz 2.0 (half length ISA card, frequency selectable)
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o Above cards with the optional DES encryption feature
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"wavelan_cs" driver (old Pcmcia Wavelan)
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o Config : Network device -> PCMCIA network ->
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Pcmcia Wireless LAN -> AT&T/Lucent WaveLAN
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o Location : .../drivers/net/pcmcia/wavelan*
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o in-line doc : .../drivers/net/pcmcia/wavelan_cs.h
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o on-line doc :
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http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wavelan.html
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This is the driver for the PCMCIA version of the first
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generation of the Wavelan, now discontinued. The device is 2 Mb/s,
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composed of a Intel 82593 controller (totally different from the 82586)
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and a Lucent Modem, and NOT 802.11 compatible.
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The driver has been tested with the following hardware :
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o Wavelan Pcmcia 915 MHz 2.0 (Pcmcia card + separate
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modem/antenna block)
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o Wavelan Pcmcia 2.4 GHz 2.0 (Pcmcia card + separate
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modem/antenna block)
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"wvlan_cs" driver (Wavelan IEEE, GPL)
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o Config : Not yet in kernel
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o Location : Pcmcia package 3.1.10+
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o on-line doc : http://www.fasta.fh-dortmund.de/users/andy/wvlan/
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This is the driver for the current generation of Wavelan IEEE,
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which is 802.11 compatible. Depending on version, it is 2 Mb/s or 11
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Mb/s, with or without encryption, all implemented in Lucent specific
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DSP (the Hermes).
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This is a GPL full source PCMCIA driver (ISA is just a Pcmcia
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card with ISA-Pcmcia bridge).
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"wavelan2_cs" driver (Wavelan IEEE, binary)
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o Config : Not yet in kernel
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o Location : ftp://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/contrib/
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This driver support exactly the same hardware as the previous
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driver, the main difference is that it is based on a binary library
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and supported by Lucent.
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I hope it clears the confusion ;-)
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Jean
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