Hello Michael, list, The current release of the manpages contains wavelan(4), but support for this module/driver is gone since several years. Starting from 2.6.32 (2009 )the driver was put in a staging mode ready for deprecation: The announcement e-mail is here: http://lwn.net/Articles/367876/ Then it lived in staging for two more releases with the following cry for help: http://lxr.linux.no/linux+v2.6.34.14/drivers/staging/wavelan/TODO and disappeared since 2.6.35 and then all other traces (documentation, etc) were also removed. Hence I think it's pointless to continue dragging this information around, if the driver doesn't have much use to people anymore, I doubt the manpage has. my 2 cents E. --- man4/wavelan.4 | 141 -------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 141 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 man4/wavelan.4 diff --git a/man4/wavelan.4 b/man4/wavelan.4 deleted file mode 100644 index 2fd7513..0000000 --- a/man4/wavelan.4 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,141 +0,0 @@ -.\" From jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Dec 19 18:31:49 1996 -.\" From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -.\" Address: HP Labs, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, U.K. -.\" Jean II - HPLB - '96 -.\" wavelan.c.4 -.\" -.\" Provenance of this page is unclear. -.\" -.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPL_NOVERSION_ONELINE) -.\" Licensed under the GPL, -.\" after inquiries with Jean Tourrilhes and Bruce Janson -.\" (mtk, July 2006) -.\" %%%LICENSE_END -.\" -.TH WAVELAN 4 1996-10-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.SH NAME -wavelan \- AT&T GIS WaveLAN ISA device driver -.SH SYNOPSIS -.BI "insmod wavelan_cs.o [io=" B,B.. "] [ irq=" I,I.. "] [name=" N,N.. ] -.SH DESCRIPTION -.I wavelan -is the low-level device driver for the NCR / AT&T / Lucent -.B WaveLAN ISA -and Digital (DEC) -.B 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. -.SS Parameters -This section apply to the module form (parameters passed on the -.BR insmod (8) -command line). -If the driver is included in the kernel, use the -.I ether=IRQ,IO,NAME -syntax on the kernel command line. -.TP -.B 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... -.TP -.B irq -Set the list of irq that each wavelan card should use (the value is -saved in permanent storage for future use). -.TP -.B name -Set the list of name to be used for each wavelan cards device (name -used by -.BR ifconfig (8)). -.SS Wireless extensions -Use -.BR iwconfig (8) -to manipulate wireless extensions. -.SS NWID (or domain) -Set the network ID -.RI [ 0 -to -.IR FFFF ] -or disable it -.RI [ off ]. -As the NWID is stored in the card Permanent Storage Area, it will be -reuse at any further invocation of the driver. -.SS Frequency & channels -For the 2.4GHz 2.00 Hardware, you are able to set the frequency by -specifying one of the 10 defined channels -.RI ( 2.412, -.I 2.422, 2.425, 2.4305, 2.432, 2.442, 2.452, 2.460, 2.462 -or -.IR 2.484 ) -or directly by its value. -The frequency is changed immediately and -permanently. -Frequency availability depends on the regulations... -.SS 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 -.BR iwspy (8)). -.SS /proc/net/wireless -.I status -is the status reported by the modem. -.I Link quality -reports the quality of the modulation on the air (direct sequence -spread spectrum) [max = 16]. -.I Level -and -.I Noise -refer to the signal level and noise level [max = 64]. -The -.I crypt discarded packet -and -.I misc discarded packet -counters are not implemented. -.SS Private ioctl -You may use -.BR iwpriv (8) -to manipulate private ioctls. -.SS Quality and level threshold -Enable you the define the quality and level threshold used by the -modem (packet below that level are discarded). -.SS 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. -.SS Specific notes -This driver will fail to detect some -.B 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. -.PP -Some of the mentioned features are optional. -You may enable to disable -them by changing flags in the driver header and recompile. -.\" .SH AUTHOR -.\" Bruce Janson \(em bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -.\" .br -.\" Jean Tourrilhes \(em jt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -.\" .br -.\" (and others; see source code for details) -.\" -.\" SEE ALSO part -.\" -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR wavelan_cs (4), -.BR ifconfig (8), -.BR insmod (8), -.BR iwconfig (8), -.BR iwpriv (8), -.BR iwspy (8) -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
