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WAVELAN(4)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							WAVELAN(4)

NAME
wavelan - AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver SYNOPSIS
insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=B,B..] [ irq=I,I..] [name=N,N..] DESCRIPTION
wavelan is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent WaveLAN ISA and Digital (DEC) RoamAbout DS wireless ethernet adapter. This driver is available as a module or might be compiled in the kernel. This driver supports multiple cards in both forms (up to 4) and allocates the next available ethernet device (eth0..eth#) for each card found, unless a device name is explicitly specified (see below). This device name will be reported in the kernel log file with the MAC address, NWID and frequency used by the card. Parameters This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the insmod(8) command line). If the driver is included in the kernel, use the ether=IRQ,IO,NAME syntax on the kernel command line. io Specify the list of base address where to search for wavelan cards (setting by dip switch on the card). If you don't specify any io address, the driver will scan 0x390 and 0x3E0 addresses, which might conflict with other hardware... irq Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is saved in permanent storage for future use). name Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name used by ifconfig(8)). Wireless Extensions Use iwconfig(8) to manipulate wireless extensions. NWID (or domain) Set the network ID [0 to FFFF] or disable it [off]. As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be reuse at any fur- ther invocation of the driver. Frequency & channels For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by specifying one of the 10 defined channels (2.412, 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 or 2.484) or directly by its value. The frequency is changed immediately and permanently. Frequency availability depends on the regulations... Statistics spy Set a list of MAC addresses in the driver (up to 8) and get the last quality of link for each of those (see iwspy(8)). /proc/net/wireless status is the status reported by the modem. Link quality reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence spread spec- trum) [max = 16]. Level and Noise refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64]. The crypt discarded packet and misc discarded packet counters are not implemented. Private Ioctl You may use iwpriv(8) to manipulate private ioctls. Quality and Level threshold Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the modem (packet below that level are discarded). Histogram This functionality makes it possible to set a number of signal level intervals and to count the number of packets received in each of those defined intervals. This distribution might be used to calculate the mean value and standard deviation of the signal level. Specific Notes This driver will fail to detect some non-NCR/ATT&T/Lucent Wavelan cards. If this happens for you, you must look in the source code on how to add your card to the detection routine. Some of the mentioned features are optional. You may enable to disable them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. SEE ALSO
wavelan_cs(4), ifconfig(8), insmod(8), iwconfig(8), iwpriv(8), iwspy(8) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 1996-10-22 WAVELAN(4)

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IWPRIV(8)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 IWPRIV(8)

NAME
iwpriv - configure optionals (private) parameters of a wireless network interface SYNOPSIS
iwpriv [interface] iwpriv interface private-command [private-parameters] iwpriv interface private-command [I] [private-parameters] iwpriv interface --all iwpriv interface roam {on,off} iwpriv interface port {ad-hoc,managed,N} DESCRIPTION
Iwpriv is the companion tool to iwconfig(8). Iwpriv deals with parameters and setting specific to each driver (as opposed to iwconfig which deals with generic ones). Without any argument, iwpriv list the available private commands available on each interface, and the parameters that they require. Using this information, the user may apply those interface specific commands on the specified interface. In theory, the documentation of each device driver should indicate how to use those interface specific commands and their effect. PARAMETERS
private-command [private-parameters] Execute the specified private-command on the interface. The command may optionally take or require arguments, and may display information. Therefore, the command line parameters may or may not be needed and should match the command expectations. The list of commands that iwpriv displays (when called without argument) should give you some hints about those parameters. However you should refer to the device driver documentation for information on how to properly use the command and the effect. private-command [I] [ private-parameters ] Idem, except that I (an integer) is passed to the command as a Token Index. Only some command will use the Token Index (most will ignore it), and the driver documentation should tell you when it's needed. -a/--all Execute and display all the private commands that don't take any arguments (i.e. read only). roam Enable or disable roaming, if supported. Call the private command setroam. Found in the wavelan_cs driver. port Read or configure the port type. Call the private commands gport_type, sport_type, get_port or set_port found in the wavelan2_cs and wvlan_cs drivers. DISPLAY
For each device which support private commands, iwpriv will display the list of private commands available. This include the name of the private command, the number or arguments that may be set and their type, and the number or arguments that may be display and their type. For example, you may have the following display : eth0 Available private ioctl : setqualthr (89F0) : set 1 byte & get 0 gethisto (89F7) : set 0 & get 16 int This indicate that you may set the quality threshold and display an histogram of up to 16 values with the following commands : iwpriv eth0 setqualthr 20 iwpriv eth0 gethisto AUTHOR
Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com FILES
/proc/net/wireless SEE ALSO
ifconfig(8), iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), wavelan(4), wavelan_cs(4), wvlan_cs(4), netwave_cs(4). net-tools 31 October 1996 IWPRIV(8)
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