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Author SHA1 Message Date
Thomas Moestl
90ce56c287 Add the following functions/macros to support byte order conversions and
device drivers for bus system with other endinesses than the CPU (using
interfaces compatible to NetBSD):

- bwap16() and bswap32(). These have optimized implementations on some
  architectures; for those that don't, there exist generic implementations.
- macros to convert from a certain byte order to host byte order and vice
  versa, using a naming scheme like le16toh(), htole16().
  These are implemented using the bswap functions.
- stream bus space access functions, which do not perform a byte order
  conversion (while the normal access functions would if the bus endianess
  differs from the CPU endianess).

htons(), htonl(), ntohs() and ntohl() are implemented using the new
functions above for kernel usage. None of the above interfaces is currently
exported to user land.

Make use of the new functions in a few places where local implementations
of the same functionality existed.

Reviewed by:	mike, bde
Tested on alpha by:	mike
2002-02-27 17:16:18 +00:00
Brooks Davis
521393ea56 Add a missing field to the end of array marker in the pci_ids array.
Submitted by:	sumikawa
2002-02-26 17:35:21 +00:00
Brooks Davis
e2119ba50b Add support for the Linksys WMP-11, Prism 2.5, PCI adaptor.
Submitted by:	Thomas Skibo <skibo@pacbell.net>
MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-02-12 17:52:11 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
7b9214f0b0 identify GLPRISM2 PCI WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11
Submitted by: Toni Andjelkovic <toni@soth.at>
2002-01-31 16:55:13 +00:00
Brooks Davis
01b8b9e983 Add support for Linksys WDT11 PCI adaptors.
Submitted by:	Eric Liedtke <eliedtke@apogeetelecom.com>
2002-01-21 00:59:59 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
72e7b28173 put function return types on a line by themselves as per style(9) 2001-12-27 20:12:03 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
6e551fb628 Update to C99, s/__FUNCTION__/__func__/,
also don't use ANSI string concatenation.
2001-12-10 08:09:49 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
68685eeb5b Replace %i formatting characters with %d since printf(9) doesn't support %i.
Someone forgot the long flamefest I lost to add %i to kernel printf.
2001-12-08 23:46:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
3b289629db Implement prism2 detection from NetBSD. This mostly obsoletes the
prism2 flag in pccard.conf, but I'm leaving it place for the moment in
case the small sample of PrismII cards that I've tried is not
representative.

MFC After: 30 days
Obtained from: NetBSD
2001-12-05 08:57:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
74d3832f6d Add Buffalo AirStation 11Mbps CF WLAN card.
Obtained from: NetBSD (ichiro)
2001-11-28 08:35:08 +00:00
Warner Losh
3d3a4bbbe9 Add Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card from NetBSD 2001-11-19 05:34:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
34e4437eb0 Hoist the Card/Card2 macros that I invented for the wi driver into
pccard layer and rename them PCMCIA_CARD and PCMCIA_CARD2 respectively
(note, this is being done with an eye towards NetBSD integreation so
it is easier to keep lists of cards between us and them in sync).

Use this in the an and wi drivers.
2001-11-15 06:37:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
81f645ca10 Add a bunch of wireless cards for NEWBUS from NetBSD's list. I'm
trying something new with the macros here and will likely try to get
them adopted by NetBSD as well as moving them to other drivers.  They
make the list more compact and easier to read, the price of rigid to a
schema for generating them (of course there are those that would argue
this isn't bad).

Obtained from: NetBSD's if_wi_pcmcia.c 1.9
2001-11-11 21:27:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
269b3a8211 s/PCCARD_/PCMCIA_/g in NEWCARD device tables to enable easier NetBSD sharing 2001-11-11 20:17:10 +00:00
Julian Elischer
b40ce4165d KSE Milestone 2
Note ALL MODULES MUST BE RECOMPILED
make the kernel aware that there are smaller units of scheduling than the
process. (but only allow one thread per process at this time).
This is functionally equivalent to teh previousl -current except
that there is a thread associated with each process.

Sorry john! (your next MFC will be a doosie!)

Reviewed by: peter@freebsd.org, dillon@freebsd.org

X-MFC after:    ha ha ha ha
2001-09-12 08:38:13 +00:00
Jonathan Lemon
f9132cebdc Wrap array accesses in macros, which also happen to be lvalues:
ifnet_addrs[i - 1]  -> ifaddr_byindex(i)
        ifindex2ifnet[i]    -> ifnet_byindex(i)

This is intended to ease the conversion to SMPng.
2001-09-06 02:40:43 +00:00
Warner Losh
47e83d86d1 Make this compile when there is no pci bus in your kernel.
Note: This should be multiple files, but since it is also broken in
stable, I thought I'd do a fix that could be MFC'd.

This is a MFC candidate.
2001-08-28 05:26:43 +00:00
Nick Sayer
2afcd749c7 Get rid of redundant device_set_desc. Both the PCI and PCCARD versions
do this in the probe routine now.
2001-08-24 05:47:50 +00:00
Nick Sayer
fa081a357e In order for the MA301 to pass interrupts from the PCCard, you must
go into the PLX 9052's interrupt control register and turn on the magic
interrupt enable bit.

Partial thanks are due to OpenBSD for pointing out that the chip is a
PLX 9052 and pointing me to the datasheet PDF.
2001-08-24 02:14:26 +00:00
Nick Sayer
499147571e Oops. The new pci_ids array should be static. 2001-08-23 03:06:16 +00:00
Nick Sayer
84031c85e5 Add support for the Netgear MA301 PCI adapter for the MA401.
It appears that a number of PrismII card vendors seem to be doing the
same thing (that is, using the same PCI bridge chip) to support PCI,
but each with their own vendor/product ID. So rather than cut-n-paste
another if statement into the probe routine, it's probably better to
provide support for a table. Adding new devices will be a lot easier
that way.
2001-08-23 00:57:40 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
419d8080a4 Currently, each wireless networking driver has it's own control program
despite the fact that most people want to set exactly the same settings
regardless of which card they have.  It has been repeatidly suggested
that this configuration should be done via ifconfig.  This patch
implements the required functionality in ifconfig and add support to the
wi and an drivers.  It also provides partial, untested support for the
awi driver.

PR:		25577
Submitted by:	Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
2001-05-26 09:27:08 +00:00
John Baldwin
8107ed2eda Disable the wi driver locking for now. The driver tries to tsleep with the
driver lock held on detach which can lead to annoying and useless panics.
2001-05-17 22:20:54 +00:00
Greg Lehey
e6d1172096 Fix world-breaking typo in previous commit. 2001-05-11 07:06:06 +00:00
Bill Paul
d639723b88 Try to read the station address twice during the probe. I've seen
a LinkSys card here in the office where reading the station address
fails the first time, but works find afterwards. Without this, the
probe fails. I don't think this will negatively impact any existing
cards, but I want to confirm this before MFC'ing.
2001-05-10 17:17:24 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
43d97995d8 Add more diagnostic output for failure.
s/1518/ETHER_MAX_LEN

Some style changes, add some braces, mostly residual from having
a lot of debug hooks added while working on this driver.

Bring in a plethora of changes from NetBSD:

	revision 1.58
	date: 2001/03/08 11:07:08;  author: ichiro;  state: Exp;  lines: +17 -1
	it wait until busy flag disappears.
	it was able to prevent some cards with late initializing faling in wi_reset().

	revision 1.41
	date: 2000/10/13 19:15:08;  author: jonathan;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -2
	Fix wi_intr() to avoid touching card registers during insert/remove  events,
	when sharing an interrupt with other devices:
	check sc->sc_enabled,  and drop the interrupt if its' off.

	revision 1.30
	date: 2000/08/18 04:11:48;  author: jhawk;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
	Copy wi_{dst,src}_addr from struct wi_frame into faked-up ether_header
	instead of addr1 and addr2. THis means that tcpdump -e will show the
	correct MAC address for communications with access points instead of showing
	the BSSID.

	In the future there should be 802.11 support for bpf/libpcap/tcpdump,
	but that is aways down the road.
2001-04-10 05:29:26 +00:00
Warner Losh
f8ef5bfb0d Two minor fixes:
o Change the number of init tries from 5 to a #define.
	o Allow up to 5s rather than 2s for commands to complete.  This
	  is still much less than 51 minutes, but makes my intel card init
	  with more reliability than before.
2001-04-09 06:33:36 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
b9d311049e use correct contants (from net/ethernet.h)
ETHER_TYPE_LEN instead of sizeof(u_int16_t) when looking at an ethernet
  header

ETHERTYPE_IP instead of 0x800
2001-04-06 22:21:57 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
85d6297f46 replace hardcoded 1518 with ETHER_MAX_LEN 2001-04-06 21:48:19 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
6857ad1f30 test should be for == 0, not < 0 2001-04-05 09:47:07 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
34702f7e67 WI_TIMEOUT is 65536
65536 * 10msec == 10 minutes 55 seconds == hung machine

Instead wait for the busy bits for a max of ~2 seconds (200 * 10msec)
2001-04-05 09:25:37 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
8da738fd11 Don't leak resources:
Don't leak iospace when irq allocation fails.  (call wi_free())

Call bus_release_resource() with the correct "rid" obtained from
bus_alloc_resource() that's saved in the softc instead of a hardcoded
0.
2001-04-05 06:56:10 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
627d3c9285 call a watchdog timeout like it is. 2001-04-04 21:56:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
5ea63116b8 Doh! Last second change introduced two compile warnings. Fix them. 2001-04-04 06:05:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
840709e709 Try to INIT the cards up to 5 times in a row rather than just once.
It appears that some of the new PRISM2 cards need it.

Fail the probe if we fail to read the MAC address.

Fix a comment.

Delete the unload printf.  The bus system now prints this message.
2001-04-04 06:03:39 +00:00
Bill Paul
5f4d50b544 Fix a couple style nits, no code changes. Turn one magic number into
a #defined constant, wrap a few long lines, etc... Also remove stupid
'all your base are belong to us' joke from comment that I don't really
care to see immortalized in the source tree.
2001-03-29 19:11:45 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
0d5b5df5cb Add support for the Addtron AWA100 PCI wireless card.
The AWA100 is a PCI board with a PLX 9052 chip that's used to talk to
the pccard inserted into the board.

Remove a redundant $FreeBSD while I'm here.
2001-03-28 05:05:05 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
da1aa0fd06 limit the amount of retries when sending data to prevent lockups. 2001-03-27 05:03:49 +00:00
Assar Westerlund
fd1d7a8a15 change default from adhoc mode to BSS (infrastructure) 2001-03-12 04:49:50 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
9ed346bab0 Change and clean the mutex lock interface.
mtx_enter(lock, type) becomes:

mtx_lock(lock) for sleep locks (MTX_DEF-initialized locks)
mtx_lock_spin(lock) for spin locks (MTX_SPIN-initialized)

similarily, for releasing a lock, we now have:

mtx_unlock(lock) for MTX_DEF and mtx_unlock_spin(lock) for MTX_SPIN.
We change the caller interface for the two different types of locks
because the semantics are entirely different for each case, and this
makes it explicitly clear and, at the same time, it rids us of the
extra `type' argument.

The enter->lock and exit->unlock change has been made with the idea
that we're "locking data" and not "entering locked code" in mind.

Further, remove all additional "flags" previously passed to the
lock acquire/release routines with the exception of two:

MTX_QUIET and MTX_NOSWITCH

The functionality of these flags is preserved and they can be passed
to the lock/unlock routines by calling the corresponding wrappers:

mtx_{lock, unlock}_flags(lock, flag(s)) and
mtx_{lock, unlock}_spin_flags(lock, flag(s)) for MTX_DEF and MTX_SPIN
locks, respectively.

Re-inline some lock acq/rel code; in the sleep lock case, we only
inline the _obtain_lock()s in order to ensure that the inlined code
fits into a cache line. In the spin lock case, we inline recursion and
actually only perform a function call if we need to spin. This change
has been made with the idea that we generally tend to avoid spin locks
and that also the spin locks that we do have and are heavily used
(i.e. sched_lock) do recurse, and therefore in an effort to reduce
function call overhead for some architectures (such as alpha), we
inline recursion for this case.

Create a new malloc type for the witness code and retire from using
the M_DEV type. The new type is called M_WITNESS and is only declared
if WITNESS is enabled.

Begin cleaning up some machdep/mutex.h code - specifically updated the
"optimized" inlined code in alpha/mutex.h and wrote MTX_LOCK_SPIN
and MTX_UNLOCK_SPIN asm macros for the i386/mutex.h as we presently
need those.

Finally, caught up to the interface changes in all sys code.

Contributors: jake, jhb, jasone (in no particular order)
2001-02-09 06:11:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6817526d14 Convert if_multiaddrs from LIST to TAILQ so that it can be traversed
backwards in the three drivers which want to do that.

Reviewed by:    mikeh
2001-02-06 10:12:15 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
78d82c8c59 Use LIST_FOREACH() to traverse ifp->if_multiaddrs list, instead of
<sys/queue.h> implementation details.

Created with:   /usr/sbin/sed
Reviewed with:  /sbin/md5
2001-02-03 16:29:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
96b15e09d9 wi has been converted to NEWCARD, so included it when pccard is
included.

Also, I forgot to update this to the new cis[] structure last night,
mainly due to the above omission.
2001-01-21 18:10:38 +00:00
Bosko Milekic
08812b3925 Implement MTX_RECURSE flag for mtx_init().
All calls to mtx_init() for mutexes that recurse must now include
the MTX_RECURSE bit in the flag argument variable. This change is in
preparation for an upcoming (further) mutex API cleanup.
The witness code will call panic() if a lock is found to recurse but
the MTX_RECURSE bit was not set during the lock's initialization.

The old MTX_RECURSE "state" bit (in mtx_lock) has been renamed to
MTX_RECURSED, which is more appropriate given its meaning.

The following locks have been made "recursive," thus far:
eventhandler, Giant, callout, sched_lock, possibly some others declared
in the architecture-specific code, all of the network card driver locks
in pci/, as well as some other locks in dev/ stuff that I've found to
be recursive.

Reviewed by: jhb
2001-01-19 01:59:14 +00:00
Peter Wemm
2ca37b5a4f Add NEWCARD hooks. This seems to work just fine. 2001-01-17 12:31:59 +00:00
Peter Wemm
42383764a0 Move if_wl.c from sys/i386/isa to dev/wi - it is not i386 (or even isa)
specific.
2001-01-09 00:44:33 +00:00
John Baldwin
430e72ee1c Attempt to read and verify the card's status in wi_stop() before sending it
the disable command.  On some systems, writing to the card after it has
been ejected causes the machine to hang.

Reviewed by:	wpaul
2000-12-18 23:49:56 +00:00
Bill Paul
163369c243 Apply some contributed patches to reduce number of tx buffer allocation
failures and add some support for WEP on Prism II chip.

Submitted by: YAMAMOTO Shigeru <shigeru@iij.ad.jp>
2000-12-15 23:34:13 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
82625cf321 remove unneded sys/ucred.h includes 2000-11-30 18:52:32 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
cf9fa8e725 Move suser() and suser_xxx() prototypes and a related #define from
<sys/proc.h> to <sys/systm.h>.

Correctly document the #includes needed in the manpage.

Add one now needed #include of <sys/systm.h>.
Remove the consequent 48 unused #includes of <sys/proc.h>.
2000-10-29 16:06:56 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
db7e3af111 Remove unneeded #include <machine/clock.h> 2000-10-15 14:19:01 +00:00
Bill Paul
9fa3f7b0f2 Update the wi driver to use mutexes instead of spls. 2000-10-13 20:33:24 +00:00
Bill Paul
2705f23073 Close PR #20963. Do not pass encryption keys back to the caller via
wi_ioctl() unless they're the superuser.
2000-09-07 17:05:12 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
21b8ebd926 Make all Ethernet drivers attach using ether_ifattach() and detach using
ether_ifdetach().

The former consolidates the operations of if_attach(), ng_ether_attach(),
and bpfattach(). The latter consolidates the corresponding detach operations.

Reviewed by:	julian, freebsd-net
2000-07-13 22:54:34 +00:00
Ollivier Robert
a0b74543ff Bring the an(4) fixes to wi(4):
- suser check
- splx() fix.

Reminded by:	Aaron Campbell <aaron@openbsd.org>
2000-06-19 00:17:13 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
2e2de7f23f Move code to handle BPF and bridging for incoming Ethernet packets out
of the individual drivers and into the common routine ether_input().
Also, remove the (incomplete) hack for matching ethernet headers
in the ip_fw code.

The good news: net result of 1016 lines removed, and this should make
bridging now work with *all* Ethernet drivers.

The bad news: it's nearly impossible to test every driver, especially
for bridging, and I was unable to get much testing help on the mailing
lists.

Reviewed by:	freebsd-net
2000-05-14 02:18:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
3389ae9350 Remove ~25 unneeded #include <sys/conf.h>
Remove ~60 unneeded #include <sys/malloc.h>
2000-04-19 14:58:28 +00:00
Bill Paul
339dabccd7 When in infrastructure mode, use address 3 from the 802.11 header as the
source address when receiving frames (and keep using address 2 when in
pseudo-IBSS mode). This is apparently necessary in order to obtain the
true MAC address of the sending station which is needed for PPPoE.

Patch supplied by: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>
2000-04-17 18:47:28 +00:00
Robert Watson
081d19aecd Modify if_wi.c to call bpfdetach(ifp) before if_detach(ifp), so as to
prevent a page fault if the card is ejected while BPF is in use.  This
could happen if DHCP or tcpdump was in use on that interface during
ejection.  Other drivers may also require this modification.

Reviewed by:	wes
2000-03-19 05:46:50 +00:00
Bill Paul
6f76cb1e28 Add support for WEP (encryption) for silver and gold WaveLAN/IEEE turbo cards.
Also update wicontrol to enable/disable encryption, set WEP keys and set the
TX key index. Silver cards only have 40-bit keys. This is something of a quick
hack, but it works well enough for me to commit this from the LinuxWorld
exhibit floor.

The WEP support only shows up if you have a card that supports it.

Would have been approved by: jkh, if he hadn't wandered off somewhere
Approved in his place by: msmith, who's standing right here
2000-02-02 17:59:13 +00:00
Bill Paul
8647d85ac3 Correctly set the data length when transmitting 802.3 frames (we need to
subtract the length of the SNAP header).
2000-01-12 00:57:27 +00:00
Peter Wemm
664a31e496 Change #ifdef KERNEL to #ifdef _KERNEL in the public headers. "KERNEL"
is an application space macro and the applications are supposed to be free
to use it as they please (but cannot).  This is consistant with the other
BSD's who made this change quite some time ago.  More commits to come.
1999-12-29 04:46:21 +00:00
Bill Paul
bfe31f4f2a Fix invocation of bus_teardown_intr(). The last arg is supposed to be
sc->wi_intrhand, not &sc->wi_intrhand.
1999-12-08 02:00:10 +00:00
Bill Paul
dda0e6f54e Update the WaveLAN/IEEE driver:
- Convert to new bus attachment scheme. Thanks to Blaz Zupan for doing
  the initial work here. One thing I changed was to have the attach
  and detach routines work like the PCI drivers, which means that in
  theory you should be able to load and unload the driver like the PCI
  NIC drivers, however the pccard support for this hasn't settled down
  yet so it doesn't quite work. Once the pccard work is done, I'll have
  to revisit this.

- Add device wi0 to PCCARD. If we're lucky, people should be able to
  install via their WaveLAN cards now.

- Add support for signal strength caching. The wicontrol utility has
  also been updated to allow zeroing and displaying the signal strength
  cache.

- Add a /sys/modules/wi directory and fix a Makefile to builf if_wi.ko.
  Currently this module is only built for the i386 platform, though once
  the pccard stuff is done it should be able to work on the alpha too.
  (Theoretically you should be able to plug one of the WaveLAN/IEEE ISA
  cards into an alpha with an ISA slot, but we'll see how that turns out.

- Update LINT to use only device wi0. There is no true ISA version of
  the WaveLAN/IEEE so we'll never use an ISA attachment.

- Update files.i386 so that if_wi is dependent on card.
1999-11-25 20:45:49 +00:00
Peter Wemm
4a6eb2cc6c Fix a warning. 1999-11-18 08:39:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
e653ecce87 Disable old PCCARD_MODULE code.
This should fix LINT.

Prompted by: phk's explicit message about LINT breakage
1999-10-29 17:28:09 +00:00
Bill Paul
98a229f65e As suggested by phk, unconditionalize BPF support in these drivers. Since
there are stubs compiled into the kernel if BPF support is not enabled,
there aren't any problems with unresolved symbols. The modules in /modules
are compiled with BPF support enabled anyway, so the most this will do is
bloat GENERIC a little.
1999-09-23 03:32:57 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Mike Smith
3ed7a59b07 Clean up after removing sys/eventhandler.h from sys/systm.h at the last
minute.  This should cover all of the missed cases (and should let LINT
build again).
1999-08-21 22:10:49 +00:00
Mike Smith
fcb893a801 Implement a new generic mechanism for attaching handler functions to
events, in order to pave the way for removing a number of the ad-hoc
implementations currently in use.

Retire the at_shutdown family of functions and replace them with
new event handler lists.

Rework kern_shutdown.c to take greater advantage of the use of event
handlers.

Reviewed by:	green
1999-08-21 06:24:40 +00:00
Bill Paul
7694cd9368 Correct the alignment of some of the members in the wi_frame structure.
The structure is the right length, but some of the members (notably
wi_q_info) were off a bit. This causes the received signal strength
values to appear bogus.
1999-07-20 20:03:42 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
6b5ca0d83e Rename bpfilter to bpf. 1999-07-06 19:23:32 +00:00
Bill Paul
f30fba37d7 Patch the WaveLAN/IEEE driver to detect and reject oversized received
frames (or just insane received packet lengths generated due to errors
reading from the NIC's internal buffers). Anything too large to fit
safely into an mbuf cluster buffer is discarded and an error logged.

I have not observed this problem with my own cards, but on user has
reported it and adding the sanity test seems reasonable in any case.

Problem noted and patch provided by: Per Andersson <per@cdg.chalmers.se>
1999-07-04 14:40:22 +00:00
Bill Paul
32af3bf215 Small optimization: use wi_seek() in wi_read_record() and wi_write_record()
instead of frobbing the buffer access path registers directly. Saves a
few lines of duplicated code.
1999-06-06 16:44:04 +00:00
Bill Paul
33b3ee3898 - Fix up some comments in if_wi.c (no code changes)
- Mention that the 6Mbps turbo adapters are supported in HARDWARE.TXT
  and RELNOTES.TXT and the wi.4 man page
- Mention turbo adapters in the wicontrol.8 man page and provide a
  complete table of available transmit speed settings
1999-05-22 16:12:54 +00:00
Bill Paul
049e649a10 Add support to wicontrol(8) and wi(4) for enabling and configuring
power management. This will only work on newer firmware revisions; older
firmware will silently ignore the attempts to turn power management on.

Patches supplied by: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
1999-05-07 03:28:54 +00:00
Bill Paul
e566363ef1 Modify wicontrol(8) and wi(4) to allow setting the frequency of the
WaveLAN's radio modem. The default is whatever the NIC uses since NICs
sold in different countries may default to different frequencies. (The
Lose95/LoseNT software doesn't let you select the channel so it's probably
not really meant to be changed.)
1999-05-06 16:32:45 +00:00
Bill Paul
c49713fde1 Fix some byte ordering problems; I was storing string lengths wrong,
which was causing wicontrol to crash when reading string parameters
from the WaveLAN.

Patches submitted by: Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
1999-05-06 03:34:02 +00:00
Bill Paul
31a08ab08e Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 PCMCIA
adapter (and some workalikes). Also add man pages and a wicontrol
utility to manipulate some of the card parameters.

This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, though it does not use any of the HCF Light code itself, mainly
because it's contaminated by the GPL (but also because it's pretty gross).
The HCF Light lacks certain featurs from the full (but proprietary) HCF
library, including 802.11 frame encapsulation support, however it has
just enough register information about the Hermes chip to allow someone
with enough spare time and energy to implement a proper driver. (I would
have prefered getting my hands on the Hermes manual, but that's proprietary
too. For those who are wondering, the Linux driver uses the proprietary
HCF library, but it's provided in object code form only.)

Note that I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have
only been able to test ad-hoc mode. The wicontrol utility can turn on
BSS mode, but I don't know for certain that the NIC will associate with
an access point correctly. Testers are encouraged to send their results
to me so that I can find out if I screwed up or not.
1999-05-05 07:37:11 +00:00
Bill Paul
113a394c06 Add device driver support for the Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11 wireless
network adapters. These are all PCMCIA devices (the ISA version is a
PCMCIA to ISA bridge with a PCMCIA card plugged into it). Also add a
wicontrol utility to read and write some of the card's parameters.

Note: I do not have access to a WavePOINT access point, so I have only
been able to test this driver in ad-hoc (point to point) mode. The
wicontrol utility allows programming the desired service set name (SSID)
and enabling BSS mode, but I can't tell for sure if it works (I know the
card switches modes, but I can't verify that it joins a service set
correctly).

This driver was written using information gleaned from the Lucent HCF Light
library, which is an API library designed to simplify driver development
for devices based on the Lucent Hermes chip. Unfortunately, the HCF Light
is missing certain features (like 802.11 frame encapsulation!) which are
available only in the proprietary complete HCF code, which is not available
to the public. This driver uses none of the HCF Light code: it's very ugly
and contaminated by the GPL. IP and ARP packets are encapsulated as 802.11
frames, everything else is encapsulated as 802.3.

(It would be easier to just get the Hermes programming manual, but that's
not publically available either. For those who are wondering, the Linux
WaveLAN/IEEE driver uses the proprietary HCF code, which is provided in
object code form only. So much for supporting open source sofware.)

Multicast filter support is implemented, however it appears that the
filter doesn't work: programming in one IP mutlicast group enables them
all.
1999-05-05 07:11:38 +00:00