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Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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The Wavelan drivers saga
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By Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
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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/wireless/wavelan*
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o in-line doc : .../drivers/net/wireless/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 :
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http://web.archive.org/web/*/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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