1 2# 3# Network device configuration 4# 5 6menuconfig NETDEVICES 7 default y if UML 8 depends on NET 9 bool "Network device support" 10 ---help--- 11 You can say N here if you don't intend to connect your Linux box to 12 any other computer at all. 13 14 You'll have to say Y if your computer contains a network card that 15 you want to use under Linux. If you are going to run SLIP or PPP over 16 telephone line or null modem cable you need say Y here. Connecting 17 two machines with parallel ports using PLIP needs this, as well as 18 AX.25/KISS for sending Internet traffic over amateur radio links. 19 20 See also "The Linux Network Administrator's Guide" by Olaf Kirch and 21 Terry Dawson. Available at <http://www.tldp.org/guides.html>. 22 23 If unsure, say Y. 24 25# All the following symbols are dependent on NETDEVICES - do not repeat 26# that for each of the symbols. 27if NETDEVICES 28 29config IFB 30 tristate "Intermediate Functional Block support" 31 depends on NET_CLS_ACT 32 ---help--- 33 This is an intermediate driver that allows sharing of 34 resources. 35 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 36 will be called ifb. If you want to use more than one ifb 37 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 38 Instead of 'ifb', the devices will then be called 'ifb0', 39 'ifb1' etc. 40 Look at the iproute2 documentation directory for usage etc 41 42config DUMMY 43 tristate "Dummy net driver support" 44 ---help--- 45 This is essentially a bit-bucket device (i.e. traffic you send to 46 this device is consigned into oblivion) with a configurable IP 47 address. It is most commonly used in order to make your currently 48 inactive SLIP address seem like a real address for local programs. 49 If you use SLIP or PPP, you might want to say Y here. Since this 50 thing often comes in handy, the default is Y. It won't enlarge your 51 kernel either. What a deal. Read about it in the Network 52 Administrator's Guide, available from 53 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#guide>. 54 55 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 56 will be called dummy. If you want to use more than one dummy 57 device at a time, you need to compile this driver as a module. 58 Instead of 'dummy', the devices will then be called 'dummy0', 59 'dummy1' etc. 60 61config BONDING 62 tristate "Bonding driver support" 63 depends on INET 64 ---help--- 65 Say 'Y' or 'M' if you wish to be able to 'bond' multiple Ethernet 66 Channels together. This is called 'Etherchannel' by Cisco, 67 'Trunking' by Sun, 802.3ad by the IEEE, and 'Bonding' in Linux. 68 69 The driver supports multiple bonding modes to allow for both high 70 performance and high availability operation. 71 72 Refer to <file:Documentation/networking/bonding.txt> for more 73 information. 74 75 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 76 will be called bonding. 77 78config MACVLAN 79 tristate "MAC-VLAN support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 80 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 81 ---help--- 82 This allows one to create virtual interfaces that map packets to 83 or from specific MAC addresses to a particular interface. 84 85 Macvlan devices can be added using the "ip" command from the 86 iproute2 package starting with the iproute2-2.6.23 release: 87 88 "ip link add link <real dev> [ address MAC ] [ NAME ] type macvlan" 89 90 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 91 will be called macvlan. 92 93config EQUALIZER 94 tristate "EQL (serial line load balancing) support" 95 ---help--- 96 If you have two serial connections to some other computer (this 97 usually requires two modems and two telephone lines) and you use 98 SLIP (the protocol for sending Internet traffic over telephone 99 lines) or PPP (a better SLIP) on them, you can make them behave like 100 one double speed connection using this driver. Naturally, this has 101 to be supported at the other end as well, either with a similar EQL 102 Linux driver or with a Livingston Portmaster 2e. 103 104 Say Y if you want this and read 105 <file:Documentation/networking/eql.txt>. You may also want to read 106 section 6.2 of the NET-3-HOWTO, available from 107 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 108 109 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 110 will be called eql. If unsure, say N. 111 112config TUN 113 tristate "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" 114 select CRC32 115 ---help--- 116 TUN/TAP provides packet reception and transmission for user space 117 programs. It can be viewed as a simple Point-to-Point or Ethernet 118 device, which instead of receiving packets from a physical media, 119 receives them from user space program and instead of sending packets 120 via physical media writes them to the user space program. 121 122 When a program opens /dev/net/tun, driver creates and registers 123 corresponding net device tunX or tapX. After a program closed above 124 devices, driver will automatically delete tunXX or tapXX device and 125 all routes corresponding to it. 126 127 Please read <file:Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt> for more 128 information. 129 130 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 131 will be called tun. 132 133 If you don't know what to use this for, you don't need it. 134 135config VETH 136 tristate "Virtual ethernet pair device" 137 ---help--- 138 This device is a local ethernet tunnel. Devices are created in pairs. 139 When one end receives the packet it appears on its pair and vice 140 versa. 141 142config NET_SB1000 143 tristate "General Instruments Surfboard 1000" 144 depends on PNP 145 ---help--- 146 This is a driver for the General Instrument (also known as 147 NextLevel) SURFboard 1000 internal 148 cable modem. This is an ISA card which is used by a number of cable 149 TV companies to provide cable modem access. It's a one-way 150 downstream-only cable modem, meaning that your upstream net link is 151 provided by your regular phone modem. 152 153 At present this driver only compiles as a module, so say M here if 154 you have this card. The module will be called sb1000. Then read 155 <file:Documentation/networking/README.sb1000> for information on how 156 to use this module, as it needs special ppp scripts for establishing 157 a connection. Further documentation and the necessary scripts can be 158 found at: 159 160 <http://www.jacksonville.net/~fventuri/> 161 <http://home.adelphia.net/~siglercm/sb1000.html> 162 <http://linuxpower.cx/~cable/> 163 164 If you don't have this card, of course say N. 165 166source "drivers/net/arcnet/Kconfig" 167 168source "drivers/net/phy/Kconfig" 169 170# 171# Ethernet 172# 173 174menuconfig NET_ETHERNET 175 bool "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" 176 depends on !UML 177 ---help--- 178 Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 179 type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 180 181 Common varieties of Ethernet are: 10BASE-2 or Thinnet (10 Mbps over 182 coaxial cable, linking computers in a chain), 10BASE-T or twisted 183 pair (10 Mbps over twisted pair cable, linking computers to central 184 hubs), 10BASE-F (10 Mbps over optical fiber links, using hubs), 185 100BASE-TX (100 Mbps over two twisted pair cables, using hubs), 186 100BASE-T4 (100 Mbps over 4 standard voice-grade twisted pair 187 cables, using hubs), 100BASE-FX (100 Mbps over optical fiber links) 188 [the 100BASE varieties are also known as Fast Ethernet], and Gigabit 189 Ethernet (1 Gbps over optical fiber or short copper links). 190 191 If your Linux machine will be connected to an Ethernet and you have 192 an Ethernet network interface card (NIC) installed in your computer, 193 say Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 194 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. You will then also have 195 to say Y to the driver for your particular NIC. 196 197 Note that the answer to this question won't directly affect the 198 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 199 the questions about Ethernet network cards. If unsure, say N. 200 201if NET_ETHERNET 202 203config MII 204 tristate "Generic Media Independent Interface device support" 205 help 206 Most ethernet controllers have MII transceiver either as an external 207 or internal device. It is safe to say Y or M here even if your 208 ethernet card lack MII. 209 210config MACB 211 tristate "Atmel MACB support" 212 depends on AVR32 || ARCH_AT91SAM9260 || ARCH_AT91SAM9263 || ARCH_AT91SAM9G20 || ARCH_AT91CAP9 213 select PHYLIB 214 help 215 The Atmel MACB ethernet interface is found on many AT32 and AT91 216 parts. Say Y to include support for the MACB chip. 217 218 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 219 will be called macb. 220 221source "drivers/net/arm/Kconfig" 222 223config AX88796 224 tristate "ASIX AX88796 NE2000 clone support" 225 depends on ARM || MIPS || SUPERH 226 select CRC32 227 select MII 228 help 229 AX88796 driver, using platform bus to provide 230 chip detection and resources 231 232config AX88796_93CX6 233 bool "ASIX AX88796 external 93CX6 eeprom support" 234 depends on AX88796 235 select EEPROM_93CX6 236 help 237 Select this if your platform comes with an external 93CX6 eeprom. 238 239config MACE 240 tristate "MACE (Power Mac ethernet) support" 241 depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 242 select CRC32 243 help 244 Power Macintoshes and clones with Ethernet built-in on the 245 motherboard will usually use a MACE (Medium Access Control for 246 Ethernet) interface. Say Y to include support for the MACE chip. 247 248 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 249 will be called mace. 250 251config MACE_AAUI_PORT 252 bool "Use AAUI port instead of TP by default" 253 depends on MACE 254 help 255 Some Apple machines (notably the Apple Network Server) which use the 256 MACE ethernet chip have an Apple AUI port (small 15-pin connector), 257 instead of an 8-pin RJ45 connector for twisted-pair ethernet. Say 258 Y here if you have such a machine. If unsure, say N. 259 The driver will default to AAUI on ANS anyway, and if you use it as 260 a module, you can provide the port_aaui=0|1 to force the driver. 261 262config BMAC 263 tristate "BMAC (G3 ethernet) support" 264 depends on PPC_PMAC && PPC32 265 select CRC32 266 help 267 Say Y for support of BMAC Ethernet interfaces. These are used on G3 268 computers. 269 270 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 271 will be called bmac. 272 273config ARIADNE 274 tristate "Ariadne support" 275 depends on ZORRO 276 help 277 If you have a Village Tronic Ariadne Ethernet adapter, say Y. 278 Otherwise, say N. 279 280 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 281 will be called ariadne. 282 283config A2065 284 tristate "A2065 support" 285 depends on ZORRO 286 select CRC32 287 help 288 If you have a Commodore A2065 Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 289 say N. 290 291 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 292 will be called a2065. 293 294config HYDRA 295 tristate "Hydra support" 296 depends on ZORRO 297 select CRC32 298 help 299 If you have a Hydra Ethernet adapter, say Y. Otherwise, say N. 300 301 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 302 will be called hydra. 303 304config ZORRO8390 305 tristate "Zorro NS8390-based Ethernet support" 306 depends on ZORRO 307 select CRC32 308 help 309 This driver is for Zorro Ethernet cards using an NS8390-compatible 310 chipset, like the Village Tronic Ariadne II and the Individual 311 Computers X-Surf Ethernet cards. If you have such a card, say Y. 312 Otherwise, say N. 313 314 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 315 will be called zorro8390. 316 317config APNE 318 tristate "PCMCIA NE2000 support" 319 depends on AMIGA_PCMCIA 320 select CRC32 321 help 322 If you have a PCMCIA NE2000 compatible adapter, say Y. Otherwise, 323 say N. 324 325 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 326 will be called apne. 327 328config MAC8390 329 bool "Macintosh NS 8390 based ethernet cards" 330 depends on MAC 331 select CRC32 332 help 333 If you want to include a driver to support Nubus or LC-PDS 334 Ethernet cards using an NS8390 chipset or its equivalent, say Y 335 and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 336 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 337 338config MAC89x0 339 tristate "Macintosh CS89x0 based ethernet cards" 340 depends on MAC 341 ---help--- 342 Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 343 Nubus or LC-PDS network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and 344 read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 345 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 346 347 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. This module will 348 be called mac89x0. 349 350config MACSONIC 351 tristate "Macintosh SONIC based ethernet (onboard, NuBus, LC, CS)" 352 depends on MAC 353 ---help--- 354 Support for NatSemi SONIC based Ethernet devices. This includes 355 the onboard Ethernet in many Quadras as well as some LC-PDS, 356 a few Nubus and all known Comm Slot Ethernet cards. If you have 357 one of these say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 358 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 359 360 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. This module will 361 be called macsonic. 362 363config MACMACE 364 bool "Macintosh (AV) onboard MACE ethernet" 365 depends on MAC 366 select CRC32 367 help 368 Support for the onboard AMD 79C940 MACE Ethernet controller used in 369 the 660AV and 840AV Macintosh. If you have one of these Macintoshes 370 say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 371 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 372 373config MVME147_NET 374 tristate "MVME147 (Lance) Ethernet support" 375 depends on MVME147 376 select CRC32 377 help 378 Support for the on-board Ethernet interface on the Motorola MVME147 379 single-board computer. Say Y here to include the 380 driver for this chip in your kernel. 381 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 382 383config MVME16x_NET 384 tristate "MVME16x Ethernet support" 385 depends on MVME16x 386 help 387 This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on the Motorola 388 MVME162, 166, 167, 172 and 177 boards. Say Y here to include the 389 driver for this chip in your kernel. 390 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 391 392config BVME6000_NET 393 tristate "BVME6000 Ethernet support" 394 depends on BVME6000 395 help 396 This is the driver for the Ethernet interface on BVME4000 and 397 BVME6000 VME boards. Say Y here to include the driver for this chip 398 in your kernel. 399 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 400 401config ATARILANCE 402 tristate "Atari Lance support" 403 depends on ATARI 404 help 405 Say Y to include support for several Atari Ethernet adapters based 406 on the AMD Lance chipset: RieblCard (with or without battery), or 407 PAMCard VME (also the version by Rhotron, with different addresses). 408 409config SUN3LANCE 410 tristate "Sun3/Sun3x on-board LANCE support" 411 depends on SUN3 || SUN3X 412 help 413 Most Sun3 and Sun3x motherboards (including the 3/50, 3/60 and 3/80) 414 featured an AMD Lance 10Mbit Ethernet controller on board; say Y 415 here to compile in the Linux driver for this and enable Ethernet. 416 General Linux information on the Sun 3 and 3x series (now 417 discontinued) is at 418 <http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/tech68k/sun3.html>. 419 420 If you're not building a kernel for a Sun 3, say N. 421 422config SUN3_82586 423 bool "Sun3 on-board Intel 82586 support" 424 depends on SUN3 425 help 426 This driver enables support for the on-board Intel 82586 based 427 Ethernet adapter found on Sun 3/1xx and 3/2xx motherboards. Note 428 that this driver does not support 82586-based adapters on additional 429 VME boards. 430 431config HPLANCE 432 bool "HP on-board LANCE support" 433 depends on DIO 434 select CRC32 435 help 436 If you want to use the builtin "LANCE" Ethernet controller on an 437 HP300 machine, say Y here. 438 439config LASI_82596 440 tristate "Lasi ethernet" 441 depends on GSC 442 help 443 Say Y here to support the builtin Intel 82596 ethernet controller 444 found in Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC machines with 10Mbit ethernet. 445 446config SNI_82596 447 tristate "SNI RM ethernet" 448 depends on NET_ETHERNET && SNI_RM 449 help 450 Say Y here to support the on-board Intel 82596 ethernet controller 451 built into SNI RM machines. 452 453config KORINA 454 tristate "Korina (IDT RC32434) Ethernet support" 455 depends on NET_ETHERNET && MIKROTIK_RB532 456 help 457 If you have a Mikrotik RouterBoard 500 or IDT RC32434 458 based system say Y. Otherwise say N. 459 460config MIPS_JAZZ_SONIC 461 tristate "MIPS JAZZ onboard SONIC Ethernet support" 462 depends on MACH_JAZZ 463 help 464 This is the driver for the onboard card of MIPS Magnum 4000, 465 Acer PICA, Olivetti M700-10 and a few other identical OEM systems. 466 467config MIPS_AU1X00_ENET 468 bool "MIPS AU1000 Ethernet support" 469 depends on SOC_AU1X00 470 select PHYLIB 471 select CRC32 472 help 473 If you have an Alchemy Semi AU1X00 based system 474 say Y. Otherwise, say N. 475 476config SGI_IOC3_ETH 477 bool "SGI IOC3 Ethernet" 478 depends on PCI && SGI_IP27 479 select CRC32 480 select MII 481 help 482 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 483 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 484 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 485 486config MIPS_SIM_NET 487 tristate "MIPS simulator Network device" 488 depends on MIPS_SIM 489 help 490 The MIPSNET device is a simple Ethernet network device which is 491 emulated by the MIPS Simulator. 492 If you are not using a MIPSsim or are unsure, say N. 493 494config SGI_O2MACE_ETH 495 tristate "SGI O2 MACE Fast Ethernet support" 496 depends on SGI_IP32=y 497 498config STNIC 499 tristate "National DP83902AV support" 500 depends on SUPERH 501 select CRC32 502 help 503 Support for cards based on the National Semiconductor DP83902AV 504 ST-NIC Serial Network Interface Controller for Twisted Pair. This 505 is a 10Mbit/sec Ethernet controller. Product overview and specs at 506 <http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83902A.html>. 507 508 If unsure, say N. 509 510config SH_ETH 511 tristate "Renesas SuperH Ethernet support" 512 depends on SUPERH && \ 513 (CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7710 || CPU_SUBTYPE_SH7712) 514 select CRC32 515 select MII 516 select MDIO_BITBANG 517 select PHYLIB 518 help 519 Renesas SuperH Ethernet device driver. 520 This driver support SH7710 and SH7712. 521 522config SUNLANCE 523 tristate "Sun LANCE support" 524 depends on SBUS 525 select CRC32 526 help 527 This driver supports the "le" interface present on all 32-bit Sparc 528 systems, on some older Ultra systems and as an Sbus option. These 529 cards are based on the AMD Lance chipset, which is better known 530 via the NE2100 cards. 531 532 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 533 will be called sunlance. 534 535config HAPPYMEAL 536 tristate "Sun Happy Meal 10/100baseT support" 537 depends on SBUS || PCI 538 select CRC32 539 help 540 This driver supports the "hme" interface present on most Ultra 541 systems and as an option on older Sbus systems. This driver supports 542 both PCI and Sbus devices. This driver also supports the "qfe" quad 543 100baseT device available in both PCI and Sbus configurations. 544 545 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 546 will be called sunhme. 547 548config SUNBMAC 549 tristate "Sun BigMAC 10/100baseT support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 550 depends on SBUS && EXPERIMENTAL 551 select CRC32 552 help 553 This driver supports the "be" interface available as an Sbus option. 554 This is Sun's older 100baseT Ethernet device. 555 556 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 557 will be called sunbmac. 558 559config SUNQE 560 tristate "Sun QuadEthernet support" 561 depends on SBUS 562 select CRC32 563 help 564 This driver supports the "qe" 10baseT Ethernet device, available as 565 an Sbus option. Note that this is not the same as Quad FastEthernet 566 "qfe" which is supported by the Happy Meal driver instead. 567 568 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 569 will be called sunqe. 570 571config SUNGEM 572 tristate "Sun GEM support" 573 depends on PCI 574 select CRC32 575 help 576 Support for the Sun GEM chip, aka Sun GigabitEthernet/P 2.0. See also 577 <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/806-3985-10.pdf>. 578 579config CASSINI 580 tristate "Sun Cassini support" 581 depends on PCI 582 select CRC32 583 help 584 Support for the Sun Cassini chip, aka Sun GigaSwift Ethernet. See also 585 <http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/hardware/docs/pdf/817-4341-10.pdf> 586 587config SUNVNET 588 tristate "Sun Virtual Network support" 589 depends on SUN_LDOMS 590 help 591 Support for virtual network devices under Sun Logical Domains. 592 593config NET_VENDOR_3COM 594 bool "3COM cards" 595 depends on ISA || EISA || MCA || PCI 596 help 597 If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 598 and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 599 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 600 601 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 602 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 603 the questions about 3COM cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 604 your specific card in the following questions. 605 606config EL1 607 tristate "3c501 \"EtherLink\" support" 608 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 609 ---help--- 610 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 611 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 612 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Also, consider buying a 613 new card, since the 3c501 is slow, broken, and obsolete: you will 614 have problems. Some people suggest to ping ("man ping") a nearby 615 machine every minute ("man cron") when using this card. 616 617 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 618 will be called 3c501. 619 620config EL2 621 tristate "3c503 \"EtherLink II\" support" 622 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA 623 select CRC32 624 help 625 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 626 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 627 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 628 629 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 630 will be called 3c503. 631 632config ELPLUS 633 tristate "3c505 \"EtherLink Plus\" support" 634 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 635 ---help--- 636 Information about this network (Ethernet) card can be found in 637 <file:Documentation/networking/3c505.txt>. If you have a card of 638 this type, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 639 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 640 641 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 642 will be called 3c505. 643 644config EL16 645 tristate "3c507 \"EtherLink 16\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 646 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 647 help 648 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 649 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 650 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 651 652 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 653 will be called 3c507. 654 655config EL3 656 tristate "3c509/3c529 (MCA)/3c579 \"EtherLink III\" support" 657 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA || MCA) 658 ---help--- 659 If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to the 3Com 660 EtherLinkIII series, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available 661 from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 662 663 If your card is not working you may need to use the DOS 664 setup disk to disable Plug & Play mode, and to select the default 665 media type. 666 667 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 668 will be called 3c509. 669 670config 3C515 671 tristate "3c515 ISA \"Fast EtherLink\"" 672 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (ISA || EISA) && ISA_DMA_API 673 help 674 If you have a 3Com ISA EtherLink XL "Corkscrew" 3c515 Fast Ethernet 675 network card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 676 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 677 678 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 679 will be called 3c515. 680 681config ELMC 682 tristate "3c523 \"EtherLink/MC\" support" 683 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA_LEGACY 684 help 685 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 686 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 687 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 688 689 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 690 will be called 3c523. 691 692config ELMC_II 693 tristate "3c527 \"EtherLink/MC 32\" support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 694 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && MCA && MCA_LEGACY 695 help 696 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 697 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 698 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 699 700 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 701 will be called 3c527. 702 703config VORTEX 704 tristate "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) \"Vortex/Boomerang\" support" 705 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && (PCI || EISA) 706 select MII 707 ---help--- 708 This option enables driver support for a large number of 10Mbps and 709 10/100Mbps EISA, PCI and PCMCIA 3Com network cards: 710 711 "Vortex" (Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597) EISA and PCI 712 "Boomerang" (EtherLink XL 3c900 or 3c905) PCI 713 "Cyclone" (3c540/3c900/3c905/3c980/3c575/3c656) PCI and Cardbus 714 "Tornado" (3c905) PCI 715 "Hurricane" (3c555/3cSOHO) PCI 716 717 If you have such a card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 718 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. More 719 specific information is in 720 <file:Documentation/networking/vortex.txt> and in the comments at 721 the beginning of <file:drivers/net/3c59x.c>. 722 723 To compile this support as a module, choose M here. 724 725config TYPHOON 726 tristate "3cr990 series \"Typhoon\" support" 727 depends on NET_VENDOR_3COM && PCI 728 select CRC32 729 ---help--- 730 This option enables driver support for the 3cr990 series of cards: 731 732 3C990-TX, 3CR990-TX-95, 3CR990-TX-97, 3CR990-FX-95, 3CR990-FX-97, 733 3CR990SVR, 3CR990SVR95, 3CR990SVR97, 3CR990-FX-95 Server, 734 3CR990-FX-97 Server, 3C990B-TX-M, 3C990BSVR 735 736 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 737 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 738 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 739 740 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 741 will be called typhoon. 742 743config LANCE 744 tristate "AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support" 745 depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API 746 help 747 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 748 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 749 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Some LinkSys cards are 750 of this type. 751 752 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 753 will be called lance. This is recommended. 754 755config NET_VENDOR_SMC 756 bool "Western Digital/SMC cards" 757 depends on ISA || MCA || EISA || MAC 758 help 759 If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, say Y 760 and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 761 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 762 763 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 764 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 765 the questions about Western Digital cards. If you say Y, you will be 766 asked for your specific card in the following questions. 767 768config WD80x3 769 tristate "WD80*3 support" 770 depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 771 select CRC32 772 help 773 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 774 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 775 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 776 777 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 778 will be called wd. 779 780config ULTRAMCA 781 tristate "SMC Ultra MCA support" 782 depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && MCA 783 select CRC32 784 help 785 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type and are running 786 an MCA based system (PS/2), say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 787 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 788 789 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 790 will be called smc-mca. 791 792config ULTRA 793 tristate "SMC Ultra support" 794 depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && ISA 795 select CRC32 796 ---help--- 797 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 798 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 799 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 800 801 Important: There have been many reports that, with some motherboards 802 mixing an SMC Ultra and an Adaptec AHA154x SCSI card (or compatible, 803 such as some BusLogic models) causes corruption problems with many 804 operating systems. The Linux smc-ultra driver has a work-around for 805 this but keep it in mind if you have such a SCSI card and have 806 problems. 807 808 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 809 will be called smc-ultra. 810 811config ULTRA32 812 tristate "SMC Ultra32 EISA support" 813 depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && EISA 814 select CRC32 815 help 816 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 817 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 818 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 819 820 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 821 will be called smc-ultra32. 822 823config BFIN_MAC 824 tristate "Blackfin 527/536/537 on-chip mac support" 825 depends on NET_ETHERNET && (BF527 || BF537 || BF536) 826 select CRC32 827 select MII 828 select PHYLIB 829 select BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 if DMA_UNCACHED_NONE 830 help 831 This is the driver for blackfin on-chip mac device. Say Y if you want it 832 compiled into the kernel. This driver is also available as a module 833 ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel 834 whenever you want). The module will be called bfin_mac. 835 836config BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 837 bool "Use L1 memory for rx/tx packets" 838 depends on BFIN_MAC && (BF527 || BF537) 839 default y 840 help 841 To get maximum network performance, you should use L1 memory as rx/tx buffers. 842 Say N here if you want to reserve L1 memory for other uses. 843 844config BFIN_TX_DESC_NUM 845 int "Number of transmit buffer packets" 846 depends on BFIN_MAC 847 range 6 10 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 848 range 10 100 849 default "10" 850 help 851 Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 852 853config BFIN_RX_DESC_NUM 854 int "Number of receive buffer packets" 855 depends on BFIN_MAC 856 range 20 100 if BFIN_MAC_USE_L1 857 range 20 800 858 default "20" 859 help 860 Set the number of buffer packets used in driver. 861 862config BFIN_MAC_RMII 863 bool "RMII PHY Interface (EXPERIMENTAL)" 864 depends on BFIN_MAC && EXPERIMENTAL 865 default y if BFIN527_EZKIT 866 default n if BFIN537_STAMP 867 help 868 Use Reduced PHY MII Interface 869 870config SMC9194 871 tristate "SMC 9194 support" 872 depends on NET_VENDOR_SMC && (ISA || MAC && BROKEN) 873 select CRC32 874 ---help--- 875 This is support for the SMC9xxx based Ethernet cards. Choose this 876 option if you have a DELL laptop with the docking station, or 877 another SMC9192/9194 based chipset. Say Y if you want it compiled 878 into the kernel, and read the file 879 <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 880 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 881 882 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 883 will be called smc9194. 884 885config SMC91X 886 tristate "SMC 91C9x/91C1xxx support" 887 select CRC32 888 select MII 889 depends on ARM || REDWOOD_5 || REDWOOD_6 || M32R || SUPERH || \ 890 SOC_AU1X00 || BLACKFIN || MN10300 891 help 892 This is a driver for SMC's 91x series of Ethernet chipsets, 893 including the SMC91C94 and the SMC91C111. Say Y if you want it 894 compiled into the kernel, and read the file 895 <file:Documentation/networking/smc9.txt> and the Ethernet-HOWTO, 896 available from <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 897 898 This driver is also available as a module ( = code which can be 899 inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want). 900 The module will be called smc91x. If you want to compile it as a 901 module, say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt>. 902 903config NET_NETX 904 tristate "NetX Ethernet support" 905 select MII 906 depends on ARCH_NETX 907 help 908 This is support for the Hilscher netX builtin Ethernet ports 909 910 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 911 will be called netx-eth. 912 913config DM9000 914 tristate "DM9000 support" 915 depends on ARM || BLACKFIN || MIPS 916 select CRC32 917 select MII 918 ---help--- 919 Support for DM9000 chipset. 920 921 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 922 will be called dm9000. 923 924config DM9000_DEBUGLEVEL 925 int "DM9000 maximum debug level" 926 depends on DM9000 927 default 4 928 help 929 The maximum level of debugging code compiled into the DM9000 930 driver. 931 932config DM9000_FORCE_SIMPLE_PHY_POLL 933 bool "Force simple NSR based PHY polling" 934 depends on DM9000 935 ---help--- 936 This configuration forces the DM9000 to use the NSR's LinkStatus 937 bit to determine if the link is up or down instead of the more 938 costly MII PHY reads. Note, this will not work if the chip is 939 operating with an external PHY. 940 941config ENC28J60 942 tristate "ENC28J60 support" 943 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && SPI && NET_ETHERNET 944 select CRC32 945 ---help--- 946 Support for the Microchip EN28J60 ethernet chip. 947 948 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be 949 called enc28j60. 950 951config ENC28J60_WRITEVERIFY 952 bool "Enable write verify" 953 depends on ENC28J60 954 ---help--- 955 Enable the verify after the buffer write useful for debugging purpose. 956 If unsure, say N. 957 958config SMC911X 959 tristate "SMSC LAN911[5678] support" 960 select CRC32 961 select MII 962 depends on ARCH_PXA || SUPERH 963 help 964 This is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x series of Ethernet chipsets 965 including the new LAN9115, LAN9116, LAN9117, and LAN9118. 966 Say Y if you want it compiled into the kernel, 967 and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 968 <http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>. 969 970 This driver is also available as a module. The module will be 971 called smc911x. If you want to compile it as a module, say M 972 here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt> 973 974config NET_VENDOR_RACAL 975 bool "Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards" 976 depends on ISA 977 help 978 If you have a network (Ethernet) card belonging to this class, such 979 as the NI5010, NI5210 or NI6210, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 980 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 981 982 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 983 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 984 the questions about NI cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for 985 your specific card in the following questions. 986 987config NI5010 988 tristate "NI5010 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 989 depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && BROKEN_ON_SMP 990 ---help--- 991 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 992 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 993 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this is still 994 experimental code. 995 996 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 997 will be called ni5010. 998 999config NI52 1000 tristate "NI5210 support" 1001 depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA 1002 help 1003 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1004 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1005 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1006 1007 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1008 will be called ni52. 1009 1010config NI65 1011 tristate "NI6510 support" 1012 depends on NET_VENDOR_RACAL && ISA && ISA_DMA_API 1013 help 1014 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1015 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1016 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1017 1018 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1019 will be called ni65. 1020 1021source "drivers/net/tulip/Kconfig" 1022 1023config AT1700 1024 tristate "AT1700/1720 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1025 depends on (ISA || MCA_LEGACY) && EXPERIMENTAL 1026 select CRC32 1027 ---help--- 1028 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1029 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1030 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1031 1032 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1033 will be called at1700. 1034 1035config DEPCA 1036 tristate "DEPCA, DE10x, DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422 support" 1037 depends on ISA || EISA || MCA 1038 select CRC32 1039 ---help--- 1040 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1041 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1042 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 1043 <file:drivers/net/depca.c>. 1044 1045 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1046 will be called depca. 1047 1048config HP100 1049 tristate "HP 10/100VG PCLAN (ISA, EISA, PCI) support" 1050 depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 1051 help 1052 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1053 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1054 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1055 1056 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1057 will be called hp100. 1058 1059config NET_ISA 1060 bool "Other ISA cards" 1061 depends on ISA 1062 ---help--- 1063 If your network (Ethernet) card hasn't been mentioned yet and its 1064 bus system (that's the way the cards talks to the other components 1065 of your computer) is ISA (as opposed to EISA, VLB or PCI), say Y. 1066 Make sure you know the name of your card. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 1067 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1068 1069 If unsure, say Y. 1070 1071 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 1072 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 1073 the remaining ISA network card questions. If you say Y, you will be 1074 asked for your specific card in the following questions. 1075 1076config E2100 1077 tristate "Cabletron E21xx support" 1078 depends on NET_ISA 1079 select CRC32 1080 help 1081 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1082 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1083 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1084 1085 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1086 will be called e2100. 1087 1088config EWRK3 1089 tristate "EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205) support" 1090 depends on NET_ISA 1091 select CRC32 1092 ---help--- 1093 This driver supports the DE203, DE204 and DE205 network (Ethernet) 1094 cards. If this is for you, say Y and read 1095 <file:Documentation/networking/ewrk3.txt> in the kernel source as 1096 well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1097 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1098 1099 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1100 will be called ewrk3. 1101 1102config EEXPRESS 1103 tristate "EtherExpress 16 support" 1104 depends on NET_ISA 1105 ---help--- 1106 If you have an EtherExpress16 network (Ethernet) card, say Y and 1107 read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1108 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the Intel 1109 EtherExpress16 card used to be regarded as a very poor choice 1110 because the driver was very unreliable. We now have a new driver 1111 that should do better. 1112 1113 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1114 will be called eexpress. 1115 1116config EEXPRESS_PRO 1117 tristate "EtherExpressPro support/EtherExpress 10 (i82595) support" 1118 depends on NET_ISA 1119 ---help--- 1120 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y. This 1121 driver supports Intel i82595{FX,TX} based boards. Note however 1122 that the EtherExpress PRO/100 Ethernet card has its own separate 1123 driver. Please read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1124 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1125 1126 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1127 will be called eepro. 1128 1129config HPLAN_PLUS 1130 tristate "HP PCLAN+ (27247B and 27252A) support" 1131 depends on NET_ISA 1132 select CRC32 1133 help 1134 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1135 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1136 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1137 1138 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1139 will be called hp-plus. 1140 1141config HPLAN 1142 tristate "HP PCLAN (27245 and other 27xxx series) support" 1143 depends on NET_ISA 1144 select CRC32 1145 help 1146 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1147 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1148 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1149 1150 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1151 will be called hp. 1152 1153config LP486E 1154 tristate "LP486E on board Ethernet" 1155 depends on NET_ISA 1156 help 1157 Say Y here to support the 82596-based on-board Ethernet controller 1158 for the Panther motherboard, which is one of the two shipped in the 1159 Intel Professional Workstation. 1160 1161config ETH16I 1162 tristate "ICL EtherTeam 16i/32 support" 1163 depends on NET_ISA 1164 help 1165 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1166 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1167 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1168 1169 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1170 will be called eth16i. 1171 1172config NE2000 1173 tristate "NE2000/NE1000 support" 1174 depends on NET_ISA || (Q40 && m) || M32R || TOSHIBA_RBTX4927 || TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 1175 select CRC32 1176 ---help--- 1177 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1178 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1179 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Many Ethernet cards 1180 without a specific driver are compatible with NE2000. 1181 1182 If you have a PCI NE2000 card however, say N here and Y to "PCI 1183 NE2000 and clone support" under "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board 1184 controllers" below. If you have a NE2000 card and are running on 1185 an MCA system (a bus system used on some IBM PS/2 computers and 1186 laptops), say N here and Y to "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support", 1187 below. 1188 1189 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1190 will be called ne. 1191 1192config ZNET 1193 tristate "Zenith Z-Note support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1194 depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL && ISA_DMA_API 1195 help 1196 The Zenith Z-Note notebook computer has a built-in network 1197 (Ethernet) card, and this is the Linux driver for it. Note that the 1198 IBM Thinkpad 300 is compatible with the Z-Note and is also supported 1199 by this driver. Read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1200 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1201 1202config SEEQ8005 1203 tristate "SEEQ8005 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1204 depends on NET_ISA && EXPERIMENTAL 1205 help 1206 This is a driver for the SEEQ 8005 network (Ethernet) card. If this 1207 is for you, read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1208 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1209 1210 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1211 will be called seeq8005. 1212 1213config NE2_MCA 1214 tristate "NE/2 (ne2000 MCA version) support" 1215 depends on MCA_LEGACY 1216 select CRC32 1217 help 1218 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1219 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1220 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1221 1222 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1223 will be called ne2. 1224 1225config IBMLANA 1226 tristate "IBM LAN Adapter/A support" 1227 depends on MCA 1228 ---help--- 1229 This is a Micro Channel Ethernet adapter. You need to set 1230 CONFIG_MCA to use this driver. It is both available as an in-kernel 1231 driver and as a module. 1232 1233 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The only 1234 currently supported card is the IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet. It 1235 will both support 16K and 32K memory windows, however a 32K window 1236 gives a better security against packet losses. Usage of multiple 1237 boards with this driver should be possible, but has not been tested 1238 up to now due to lack of hardware. 1239 1240config IBMVETH 1241 tristate "IBM LAN Virtual Ethernet support" 1242 depends on PPC_PSERIES 1243 ---help--- 1244 This driver supports virtual ethernet adapters on newer IBM iSeries 1245 and pSeries systems. 1246 1247 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will 1248 be called ibmveth. 1249 1250source "drivers/net/ibm_newemac/Kconfig" 1251 1252config NET_PCI 1253 bool "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers" 1254 depends on ISA || EISA || PCI 1255 help 1256 This is another class of network cards which attach directly to the 1257 bus. If you have one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, 1258 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1259 1260 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 1261 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 1262 the questions about this class of network cards. If you say Y, you 1263 will be asked for your specific card in the following questions. If 1264 you are unsure, say Y. 1265 1266config PCNET32 1267 tristate "AMD PCnet32 PCI support" 1268 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1269 select CRC32 1270 select MII 1271 help 1272 If you have a PCnet32 or PCnetPCI based network (Ethernet) card, 1273 answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1274 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1275 1276 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1277 will be called pcnet32. 1278 1279config AMD8111_ETH 1280 tristate "AMD 8111 (new PCI lance) support" 1281 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1282 select CRC32 1283 select MII 1284 help 1285 If you have an AMD 8111-based PCI lance ethernet card, 1286 answer Y here and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1287 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1288 1289 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1290 will be called amd8111e. 1291 1292config ADAPTEC_STARFIRE 1293 tristate "Adaptec Starfire/DuraLAN support" 1294 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1295 select CRC32 1296 select MII 1297 help 1298 Say Y here if you have an Adaptec Starfire (or DuraLAN) PCI network 1299 adapter. The DuraLAN chip is used on the 64 bit PCI boards from 1300 Adaptec e.g. the ANA-6922A. The older 32 bit boards use the tulip 1301 driver. 1302 1303 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1304 will be called starfire. This is recommended. 1305 1306config AC3200 1307 tristate "Ansel Communications EISA 3200 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1308 depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || EISA) && EXPERIMENTAL 1309 select CRC32 1310 help 1311 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1312 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1313 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1314 1315 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1316 will be called ac3200. 1317 1318config APRICOT 1319 tristate "Apricot Xen-II on board Ethernet" 1320 depends on NET_PCI && ISA 1321 help 1322 If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 1323 read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1324 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1325 1326 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1327 will be called apricot. 1328 1329config B44 1330 tristate "Broadcom 440x/47xx ethernet support" 1331 depends on SSB_POSSIBLE && HAS_DMA 1332 select SSB 1333 select MII 1334 help 1335 If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y 1336 or M and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1337 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1338 1339 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1340 will be called b44. 1341 1342# Auto-select SSB PCI-HOST support, if possible 1343config B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT 1344 bool 1345 depends on B44 && SSB_PCIHOST_POSSIBLE 1346 select SSB_PCIHOST 1347 default y 1348 1349# Auto-select SSB PCICORE driver, if possible 1350config B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1351 bool 1352 depends on B44 && SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE_POSSIBLE 1353 select SSB_DRIVER_PCICORE 1354 default y 1355 1356config B44_PCI 1357 bool 1358 depends on B44_PCI_AUTOSELECT && B44_PCICORE_AUTOSELECT 1359 default y 1360 1361config FORCEDETH 1362 tristate "nForce Ethernet support" 1363 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1364 help 1365 If you have a network (Ethernet) controller of this type, say Y and 1366 read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1367 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1368 1369 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1370 will be called forcedeth. 1371 1372config FORCEDETH_NAPI 1373 bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1374 depends on FORCEDETH && EXPERIMENTAL 1375 help 1376 NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1377 when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 1378 still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 1379 1380 If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1381 deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1382 then say Y here. 1383 1384 If in doubt, say N. 1385 1386config CS89x0 1387 tristate "CS89x0 support" 1388 depends on NET_PCI && (ISA || MACH_IXDP2351 || ARCH_IXDP2X01 || ARCH_PNX010X) 1389 ---help--- 1390 Support for CS89x0 chipset based Ethernet cards. If you have a 1391 network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read the 1392 Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1393 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto> as well as 1394 <file:Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt>. 1395 1396 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1397 will be called cs89x0. 1398 1399config TC35815 1400 tristate "TOSHIBA TC35815 Ethernet support" 1401 depends on NET_PCI && PCI && MIPS 1402 select PHYLIB 1403 1404config EEPRO100 1405 tristate "EtherExpressPro/100 support (eepro100, original Becker driver)" 1406 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1407 select MII 1408 help 1409 If you have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 PCI network (Ethernet) 1410 card, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1411 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1412 1413 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1414 will be called eepro100. 1415 1416 1417config E100 1418 tristate "Intel(R) PRO/100+ support" 1419 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1420 select MII 1421 ---help--- 1422 This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/100 family of adapters. 1423 To verify that your adapter is supported, find the board ID number 1424 on the adapter. Look for a label that has a barcode and a number 1425 in the format 123456-001 (six digits hyphen three digits). 1426 1427 Use the above information and the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 1428 1429 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 1430 1431 to identify the adapter. 1432 1433 For the latest Intel PRO/100 network driver for Linux, see: 1434 1435 <http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp> 1436 1437 More specific information on configuring the driver is in 1438 <file:Documentation/networking/e100.txt>. 1439 1440 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1441 will be called e100. 1442 1443config LNE390 1444 tristate "Mylex EISA LNE390A/B support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1445 depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 1446 select CRC32 1447 help 1448 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1449 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1450 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1451 1452 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1453 will be called lne390. 1454 1455config FEALNX 1456 tristate "Myson MTD-8xx PCI Ethernet support" 1457 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1458 select CRC32 1459 select MII 1460 help 1461 Say Y here to support the Mysom MTD-800 family of PCI-based Ethernet 1462 cards. Specifications and data at 1463 <http://www.myson.com.hk/mtd/datasheet/>. 1464 1465config NATSEMI 1466 tristate "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" 1467 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1468 select CRC32 1469 help 1470 This driver is for the National Semiconductor DP83810 series, 1471 which is used in cards from PureData, NetGear, Linksys 1472 and others, including the 83815 chip. 1473 More specific information and updates are available from 1474 <http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html>. 1475 1476config NE2K_PCI 1477 tristate "PCI NE2000 and clones support (see help)" 1478 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1479 select CRC32 1480 ---help--- 1481 This driver is for NE2000 compatible PCI cards. It will not work 1482 with ISA NE2000 cards (they have their own driver, "NE2000/NE1000 1483 support" below). If you have a PCI NE2000 network (Ethernet) card, 1484 say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1485 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1486 1487 This driver also works for the following NE2000 clone cards: 1488 RealTek RTL-8029 Winbond 89C940 Compex RL2000 KTI ET32P2 1489 NetVin NV5000SC Via 86C926 SureCom NE34 Winbond 1490 Holtek HT80232 Holtek HT80229 1491 1492 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1493 will be called ne2k-pci. 1494 1495config NE3210 1496 tristate "Novell/Eagle/Microdyne NE3210 EISA support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1497 depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 1498 select CRC32 1499 ---help--- 1500 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1501 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1502 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that this driver 1503 will NOT WORK for NE3200 cards as they are completely different. 1504 1505 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1506 will be called ne3210. 1507 1508config ES3210 1509 tristate "Racal-Interlan EISA ES3210 support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1510 depends on NET_PCI && EISA && EXPERIMENTAL 1511 select CRC32 1512 help 1513 If you have a network (Ethernet) card of this type, say Y and read 1514 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1515 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1516 1517 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1518 will be called es3210. 1519 1520config 8139CP 1521 tristate "RealTek RTL-8139 C+ PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1522 depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1523 select CRC32 1524 select MII 1525 help 1526 This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1527 the RTL8139C+ chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read 1528 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1529 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1530 1531 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1532 will be called 8139cp. This is recommended. 1533 1534config 8139TOO 1535 tristate "RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 1536 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1537 select CRC32 1538 select MII 1539 ---help--- 1540 This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1541 the RTL 8129/8130/8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and 1542 read the Ethernet-HOWTO <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1543 1544 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1545 will be called 8139too. This is recommended. 1546 1547config 8139TOO_PIO 1548 bool "Use PIO instead of MMIO" 1549 default y 1550 depends on 8139TOO 1551 help 1552 This instructs the driver to use programmed I/O ports (PIO) instead 1553 of PCI shared memory (MMIO). This can possibly solve some problems 1554 in case your mainboard has memory consistency issues. If unsure, 1555 say N. 1556 1557config 8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER 1558 bool "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K (automatic channel equalization)" 1559 depends on 8139TOO 1560 help 1561 This implements a function which might come in handy in case you 1562 are using low quality on long cabling. It is required for RealTek 1563 RTL-8139 revision K boards, and totally unused otherwise. It tries 1564 to match the transceiver to the cable characteristics. This is 1565 experimental since hardly documented by the manufacturer. 1566 If unsure, say Y. 1567 1568config 8139TOO_8129 1569 bool "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards" 1570 depends on 8139TOO 1571 help 1572 This enables support for the older and uncommon RTL-8129 and 1573 RTL-8130 chips, which support MII via an external transceiver, 1574 instead of an internal one. Disabling this option will save some 1575 memory by making the code size smaller. If unsure, say Y. 1576 1577config 8139_OLD_RX_RESET 1578 bool "Use older RX-reset method" 1579 depends on 8139TOO 1580 help 1581 The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid 1582 reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new" 1583 RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you 1584 experience problems, you can enable this option to restore the 1585 old RX-reset behavior. If unsure, say N. 1586 1587config R6040 1588 tristate "RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet Adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1589 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1590 select CRC32 1591 select MII 1592 help 1593 This is a driver for the R6040 Fast Ethernet MACs found in the 1594 the RDC R-321x System-on-chips. 1595 1596 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1597 will be called r6040. This is recommended. 1598 1599config SIS900 1600 tristate "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" 1601 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1602 select CRC32 1603 select MII 1604 ---help--- 1605 This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1606 the SiS 900 and SiS 7016 chips. The SiS 900 core is also embedded in 1607 SiS 630 and SiS 540 chipsets. 1608 1609 This driver also supports AMD 79C901 HomePNA so that you can use 1610 your phone line as a network cable. 1611 1612 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1613 will be called sis900. This is recommended. 1614 1615config EPIC100 1616 tristate "SMC EtherPower II" 1617 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1618 select CRC32 1619 select MII 1620 help 1621 This driver is for the SMC EtherPower II 9432 PCI Ethernet NIC, 1622 which is based on the SMC83c17x (EPIC/100). 1623 More specific information and updates are available from 1624 <http://www.scyld.com/network/epic100.html>. 1625 1626config SUNDANCE 1627 tristate "Sundance Alta support" 1628 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1629 select CRC32 1630 select MII 1631 help 1632 This driver is for the Sundance "Alta" chip. 1633 More specific information and updates are available from 1634 <http://www.scyld.com/network/sundance.html>. 1635 1636config SUNDANCE_MMIO 1637 bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 1638 depends on SUNDANCE 1639 help 1640 Enable memory-mapped I/O for interaction with Sundance NIC registers. 1641 Do NOT enable this by default, PIO (enabled when MMIO is disabled) 1642 is known to solve bugs on certain chips. 1643 1644 If unsure, say N. 1645 1646config TLAN 1647 tristate "TI ThunderLAN support" 1648 depends on NET_PCI && (PCI || EISA) 1649 ---help--- 1650 If you have a PCI Ethernet network card based on the ThunderLAN chip 1651 which is supported by this driver, say Y and read the 1652 Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1653 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1654 1655 Devices currently supported by this driver are Compaq Netelligent, 1656 Compaq NetFlex and Olicom cards. Please read the file 1657 <file:Documentation/networking/tlan.txt> for more details. 1658 1659 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1660 will be called tlan. 1661 1662 Please email feedback to <torben.mathiasen@compaq.com>. 1663 1664config VIA_RHINE 1665 tristate "VIA Rhine support" 1666 depends on NET_PCI && PCI 1667 select CRC32 1668 select MII 1669 help 1670 If you have a VIA "Rhine" based network card (Rhine-I (VT86C100A), 1671 Rhine-II (VT6102), or Rhine-III (VT6105)), say Y here. Rhine-type 1672 Ethernet functions can also be found integrated on South Bridges 1673 (e.g. VT8235). 1674 1675 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1676 will be called via-rhine. 1677 1678config VIA_RHINE_MMIO 1679 bool "Use MMIO instead of PIO" 1680 depends on VIA_RHINE 1681 help 1682 This instructs the driver to use PCI shared memory (MMIO) instead of 1683 programmed I/O ports (PIO). Enabling this gives an improvement in 1684 processing time in parts of the driver. 1685 1686 If unsure, say Y. 1687 1688config SC92031 1689 tristate "Silan SC92031 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1690 depends on NET_PCI && PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1691 select CRC32 1692 ---help--- 1693 This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on 1694 the Silan SC92031 chip (sometimes also called Rsltek 8139D). If you 1695 have one of these, say Y here. 1696 1697 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1698 will be called sc92031. This is recommended. 1699 1700config CPMAC 1701 tristate "TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 1702 depends on NET_ETHERNET && EXPERIMENTAL && AR7 && BROKEN 1703 select PHYLIB 1704 help 1705 TI AR7 CPMAC Ethernet support 1706 1707config NET_POCKET 1708 bool "Pocket and portable adapters" 1709 depends on PARPORT 1710 ---help--- 1711 Cute little network (Ethernet) devices which attach to the parallel 1712 port ("pocket adapters"), commonly used with laptops. If you have 1713 one of those, say Y and read the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1714 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 1715 1716 If you want to plug a network (or some other) card into the PCMCIA 1717 (or PC-card) slot of your laptop instead (PCMCIA is the standard for 1718 credit card size extension cards used by all modern laptops), you 1719 need the pcmcia-cs package (location contained in the file 1720 <file:Documentation/Changes>) and you can say N here. 1721 1722 Laptop users should read the Linux Laptop home page at 1723 <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/> or 1724 Tuxmobil - Linux on Mobile Computers at <http://www.tuxmobil.org/>. 1725 1726 Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the 1727 kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all 1728 the questions about this class of network devices. If you say Y, you 1729 will be asked for your specific device in the following questions. 1730 1731config ATP 1732 tristate "AT-LAN-TEC/RealTek pocket adapter support" 1733 depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT && X86 1734 select CRC32 1735 ---help--- 1736 This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 1737 port. Read <file:drivers/net/atp.c> as well as the Ethernet-HOWTO, 1738 available from <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you 1739 want to use this. If you intend to use this driver, you should have 1740 said N to the "Parallel printer support", because the two drivers 1741 don't like each other. 1742 1743 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1744 will be called atp. 1745 1746config DE600 1747 tristate "D-Link DE600 pocket adapter support" 1748 depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 1749 ---help--- 1750 This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 1751 port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 1752 Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1753 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 1754 this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 1755 port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 1756 kernel. 1757 1758 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1759 will be called de600. 1760 1761config DE620 1762 tristate "D-Link DE620 pocket adapter support" 1763 depends on NET_POCKET && PARPORT 1764 ---help--- 1765 This is a network (Ethernet) device which attaches to your parallel 1766 port. Read <file:Documentation/networking/DLINK.txt> as well as the 1767 Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 1768 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, if you want to use 1769 this. It is possible to have several devices share a single parallel 1770 port and it is safe to compile the corresponding drivers into the 1771 kernel. 1772 1773 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1774 will be called de620. 1775 1776config SGISEEQ 1777 tristate "SGI Seeq ethernet controller support" 1778 depends on SGI_HAS_SEEQ 1779 help 1780 Say Y here if you have an Seeq based Ethernet network card. This is 1781 used in many Silicon Graphics machines. 1782 1783config DECLANCE 1784 tristate "DEC LANCE ethernet controller support" 1785 depends on MACH_DECSTATION 1786 select CRC32 1787 help 1788 This driver is for the series of Ethernet controllers produced by 1789 DEC (now Compaq) based on the AMD Lance chipset, including the 1790 DEPCA series. (This chipset is better known via the NE2100 cards.) 1791 1792config 68360_ENET 1793 bool "Motorola 68360 ethernet controller" 1794 depends on M68360 1795 help 1796 Say Y here if you want to use the built-in ethernet controller of 1797 the Motorola 68360 processor. 1798 1799config FEC 1800 bool "FEC ethernet controller (of ColdFire CPUs)" 1801 depends on M523x || M527x || M5272 || M528x || M520x 1802 help 1803 Say Y here if you want to use the built-in 10/100 Fast ethernet 1804 controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 1805 1806config FEC2 1807 bool "Second FEC ethernet controller (on some ColdFire CPUs)" 1808 depends on FEC 1809 help 1810 Say Y here if you want to use the second built-in 10/100 Fast 1811 ethernet controller on some Motorola ColdFire processors. 1812 1813config FEC_MPC52xx 1814 tristate "MPC52xx FEC driver" 1815 depends on PPC_MERGE && PPC_MPC52xx && PPC_BESTCOMM_FEC 1816 select CRC32 1817 select PHYLIB 1818 ---help--- 1819 This option enables support for the MPC5200's on-chip 1820 Fast Ethernet Controller 1821 If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx.ko'. 1822 1823config FEC_MPC52xx_MDIO 1824 bool "MPC52xx FEC MDIO bus driver" 1825 depends on FEC_MPC52xx 1826 default y 1827 ---help--- 1828 The MPC5200's FEC can connect to the Ethernet either with 1829 an external MII PHY chip or 10 Mbps 7-wire interface 1830 (Motorola? industry standard). 1831 If your board uses an external PHY connected to FEC, enable this. 1832 If not sure, enable. 1833 If compiled as module, it will be called 'fec_mpc52xx_phy.ko'. 1834 1835config NE_H8300 1836 tristate "NE2000 compatible support for H8/300" 1837 depends on H8300 1838 help 1839 Say Y here if you want to use the NE2000 compatible 1840 controller on the Renesas H8/300 processor. 1841 1842source "drivers/net/fs_enet/Kconfig" 1843 1844endif # NET_ETHERNET 1845 1846# 1847# Gigabit Ethernet 1848# 1849 1850menuconfig NETDEV_1000 1851 bool "Ethernet (1000 Mbit)" 1852 depends on !UML 1853 default y 1854 ---help--- 1855 Ethernet (also called IEEE 802.3 or ISO 8802-2) is the most common 1856 type of Local Area Network (LAN) in universities and companies. 1857 1858 Say Y here to get to see options for Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 1859 This option alone does not add any kernel code. 1860 Note that drivers supporting both 100 and 1000 MBit may be listed 1861 under "Ethernet (10 or 100MBit)" instead. 1862 1863 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 1864 1865if NETDEV_1000 1866 1867config ACENIC 1868 tristate "Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit support" 1869 depends on PCI 1870 ---help--- 1871 Say Y here if you have an Alteon AceNIC, 3Com 3C985(B), NetGear 1872 GA620, SGI Gigabit or Farallon PN9000-SX PCI Gigabit Ethernet 1873 adapter. The driver allows for using the Jumbo Frame option (9000 1874 bytes/frame) however it requires that your switches can handle this 1875 as well. To enable Jumbo Frames, add `mtu 9000' to your ifconfig 1876 line. 1877 1878 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1879 module will be called acenic. 1880 1881config ACENIC_OMIT_TIGON_I 1882 bool "Omit support for old Tigon I based AceNICs" 1883 depends on ACENIC 1884 help 1885 Say Y here if you only have Tigon II based AceNICs and want to leave 1886 out support for the older Tigon I based cards which are no longer 1887 being sold (ie. the original Alteon AceNIC and 3Com 3C985 (non B 1888 version)). This will reduce the size of the driver object by 1889 app. 100KB. If you are not sure whether your card is a Tigon I or a 1890 Tigon II, say N here. 1891 1892 The safe and default value for this is N. 1893 1894config DL2K 1895 tristate "DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit Ethernet support" 1896 depends on PCI 1897 select CRC32 1898 help 1899 This driver supports DL2000/TC902x-based Gigabit ethernet cards, 1900 which includes 1901 D-Link DGE-550T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 1902 D-Link DL2000-based Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 1903 Sundance/Tamarack TC902x Gigabit Ethernet Adapter. 1904 1905 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 1906 module will be called dl2k. 1907 1908config E1000 1909 tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 1910 depends on PCI 1911 ---help--- 1912 This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit ethernet family of 1913 adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 1914 to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 1915 1916 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 1917 1918 For general information and support, go to the Intel support 1919 website at: 1920 1921 <http://support.intel.com> 1922 1923 More specific information on configuring the driver is in 1924 <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 1925 1926 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1927 will be called e1000. 1928 1929config E1000_NAPI 1930 bool "Use Rx Polling (NAPI)" 1931 depends on E1000 1932 help 1933 NAPI is a new driver API designed to reduce CPU and interrupt load 1934 when the driver is receiving lots of packets from the card. It is 1935 still somewhat experimental and thus not yet enabled by default. 1936 1937 If your estimated Rx load is 10kpps or more, or if the card will be 1938 deployed on potentially unfriendly networks (e.g. in a firewall), 1939 then say Y here. 1940 1941 If in doubt, say N. 1942 1943config E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT 1944 bool "Disable Packet Split for PCI express adapters" 1945 depends on E1000 1946 help 1947 Say Y here if you want to use the legacy receive path for PCI express 1948 hardware. 1949 1950 If in doubt, say N. 1951 1952config E1000E 1953 tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 1954 depends on PCI && (!SPARC32 || BROKEN) 1955 ---help--- 1956 This driver supports the PCI-Express Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit 1957 ethernet family of adapters. For PCI or PCI-X e1000 adapters, 1958 use the regular e1000 driver For more information on how to 1959 identify your adapter, go to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 1960 1961 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 1962 1963 For general information and support, go to the Intel support 1964 website at: 1965 1966 <http://support.intel.com> 1967 1968 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 1969 will be called e1000e. 1970 1971config IP1000 1972 tristate "IP1000 Gigabit Ethernet support" 1973 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 1974 select MII 1975 ---help--- 1976 This driver supports IP1000 gigabit Ethernet cards. 1977 1978 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 1979 will be called ipg. This is recommended. 1980 1981config IGB 1982 tristate "Intel(R) 82575 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support" 1983 depends on PCI 1984 ---help--- 1985 This driver supports Intel(R) 82575 gigabit ethernet family of 1986 adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 1987 to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 1988 1989 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 1990 1991 For general information and support, go to the Intel support 1992 website at: 1993 1994 <http://support.intel.com> 1995 1996 More specific information on configuring the driver is in 1997 <file:Documentation/networking/e1000.txt>. 1998 1999 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2000 will be called igb. 2001 2002config IGB_LRO 2003 bool "Use software LRO" 2004 depends on IGB && INET 2005 select INET_LRO 2006 ---help--- 2007 Say Y here if you want to use large receive offload. 2008 2009 If in doubt, say N. 2010 2011source "drivers/net/ixp2000/Kconfig" 2012 2013config MYRI_SBUS 2014 tristate "MyriCOM Gigabit Ethernet support" 2015 depends on SBUS 2016 help 2017 This driver supports MyriCOM Sbus gigabit Ethernet cards. 2018 2019 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2020 will be called myri_sbus. This is recommended. 2021 2022config NS83820 2023 tristate "National Semiconductor DP83820 support" 2024 depends on PCI 2025 help 2026 This is a driver for the National Semiconductor DP83820 series 2027 of gigabit ethernet MACs. Cards using this chipset include 2028 the D-Link DGE-500T, PureData's PDP8023Z-TG, SMC's SMC9462TX, 2029 SOHO-GA2000T, SOHO-GA2500T. The driver supports the use of 2030 zero copy. 2031 2032config HAMACHI 2033 tristate "Packet Engines Hamachi GNIC-II support" 2034 depends on PCI 2035 select MII 2036 help 2037 If you have a Gigabit Ethernet card of this type, say Y and read 2038 the Ethernet-HOWTO, available from 2039 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. 2040 2041 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module will be 2042 called hamachi. 2043 2044config YELLOWFIN 2045 tristate "Packet Engines Yellowfin Gigabit-NIC support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2046 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2047 select CRC32 2048 ---help--- 2049 Say Y here if you have a Packet Engines G-NIC PCI Gigabit Ethernet 2050 adapter or the SYM53C885 Ethernet controller. The Gigabit adapter is 2051 used by the Beowulf Linux cluster project. See 2052 <http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html> for more 2053 information about this driver in particular and Beowulf in general. 2054 2055 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2056 will be called yellowfin. This is recommended. 2057 2058config R8169 2059 tristate "Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support" 2060 depends on PCI 2061 select CRC32 2062 ---help--- 2063 Say Y here if you have a Realtek 8169 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. 2064 2065 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2066 will be called r8169. This is recommended. 2067 2068config R8169_VLAN 2069 bool "VLAN support" 2070 depends on R8169 && VLAN_8021Q 2071 ---help--- 2072 Say Y here for the r8169 driver to support the functions required 2073 by the kernel 802.1Q code. 2074 2075 If in doubt, say Y. 2076 2077config SB1250_MAC 2078 tristate "SB1250 Gigabit Ethernet support" 2079 depends on SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC 2080 select PHYLIB 2081 ---help--- 2082 This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet interfaces based on the 2083 Broadcom SiByte family of System-On-a-Chip parts. They include 2084 the BCM1120, BCM1125, BCM1125H, BCM1250, BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455 2085 and BCM1480 chips. 2086 2087 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2088 will be called sb1250-mac. 2089 2090config SIS190 2091 tristate "SiS190/SiS191 gigabit ethernet support" 2092 depends on PCI 2093 select CRC32 2094 select MII 2095 ---help--- 2096 Say Y here if you have a SiS 190 PCI Fast Ethernet adapter or 2097 a SiS 191 PCI Gigabit Ethernet adapter. Both are expected to 2098 appear in lan on motherboard designs which are based on SiS 965 2099 and SiS 966 south bridge. 2100 2101 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2102 will be called sis190. This is recommended. 2103 2104config SKGE 2105 tristate "New SysKonnect GigaEthernet support" 2106 depends on PCI 2107 select CRC32 2108 ---help--- 2109 This driver support the Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx/SK-95xx 2110 and related Gigabit Ethernet adapters. It is a new smaller driver 2111 with better performance and more complete ethtool support. 2112 2113 It does not support the link failover and network management 2114 features that "portable" vendor supplied sk98lin driver does. 2115 2116 This driver supports adapters based on the original Yukon chipset: 2117 Marvell 88E8001, Belkin F5D5005, CNet GigaCard, DLink DGE-530T, 2118 Linksys EG1032/EG1064, 3Com 3C940/3C940B, SysKonnect SK-9871/9872. 2119 2120 It does not support the newer Yukon2 chipset: a separate driver, 2121 sky2, is provided for Yukon2-based adapters. 2122 2123 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2124 will be called skge. This is recommended. 2125 2126config SKGE_DEBUG 2127 bool "Debugging interface" 2128 depends on SKGE && DEBUG_FS 2129 help 2130 This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 2131 The file debugfs/skge/ethX displays the state of the internal 2132 transmit and receive rings. 2133 2134 If unsure, say N. 2135 2136config SKY2 2137 tristate "SysKonnect Yukon2 support" 2138 depends on PCI 2139 select CRC32 2140 ---help--- 2141 This driver supports Gigabit Ethernet adapters based on the 2142 Marvell Yukon 2 chipset: 2143 Marvell 88E8021/88E8022/88E8035/88E8036/88E8038/88E8050/88E8052/ 2144 88E8053/88E8055/88E8061/88E8062, SysKonnect SK-9E21D/SK-9S21 2145 2146 There is companion driver for the older Marvell Yukon and 2147 Genesis based adapters: skge. 2148 2149 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2150 will be called sky2. This is recommended. 2151 2152config SKY2_DEBUG 2153 bool "Debugging interface" 2154 depends on SKY2 && DEBUG_FS 2155 help 2156 This option adds the ability to dump driver state for debugging. 2157 The file debugfs/sky2/ethX displays the state of the internal 2158 transmit and receive rings. 2159 2160 If unsure, say N. 2161 2162config VIA_VELOCITY 2163 tristate "VIA Velocity support" 2164 depends on PCI 2165 select CRC32 2166 select CRC_CCITT 2167 select MII 2168 help 2169 If you have a VIA "Velocity" based network card say Y here. 2170 2171 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2172 will be called via-velocity. 2173 2174config TIGON3 2175 tristate "Broadcom Tigon3 support" 2176 depends on PCI 2177 select PHYLIB 2178 help 2179 This driver supports Broadcom Tigon3 based gigabit Ethernet cards. 2180 2181 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2182 will be called tg3. This is recommended. 2183 2184config BNX2 2185 tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII support" 2186 depends on PCI 2187 select CRC32 2188 select ZLIB_INFLATE 2189 help 2190 This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII gigabit Ethernet cards. 2191 2192 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2193 will be called bnx2. This is recommended. 2194 2195config SPIDER_NET 2196 tristate "Spider Gigabit Ethernet driver" 2197 depends on PCI && (PPC_IBM_CELL_BLADE || PPC_CELLEB) 2198 select FW_LOADER 2199 help 2200 This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet chips present on the 2201 Cell Processor-Based Blades from IBM. 2202 2203config TSI108_ETH 2204 tristate "Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet support" 2205 depends on TSI108_BRIDGE 2206 help 2207 This driver supports Tundra TSI108 gigabit Ethernet ports. 2208 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2209 will be called tsi108_eth. 2210 2211config GELIC_NET 2212 tristate "PS3 Gigabit Ethernet driver" 2213 depends on PPC_PS3 2214 select PS3_SYS_MANAGER 2215 help 2216 This driver supports the network device on the PS3 game 2217 console. This driver has built-in support for Ethernet. 2218 2219 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the 2220 module will be called ps3_gelic. 2221 2222config GELIC_WIRELESS 2223 bool "PS3 Wireless support" 2224 depends on GELIC_NET 2225 select WIRELESS_EXT 2226 help 2227 This option adds the support for the wireless feature of PS3. 2228 If you have the wireless-less model of PS3 or have no plan to 2229 use wireless feature, disabling this option saves memory. As 2230 the driver automatically distinguishes the models, you can 2231 safely enable this option even if you have a wireless-less model. 2232 2233config GELIC_WIRELESS_OLD_PSK_INTERFACE 2234 bool "PS3 Wireless private PSK interface (OBSOLETE)" 2235 depends on GELIC_WIRELESS 2236 help 2237 This option retains the obsolete private interface to pass 2238 the PSK from user space programs to the driver. The PSK 2239 stands for 'Pre Shared Key' and is used for WPA[2]-PSK 2240 (WPA-Personal) environment. 2241 If WPA[2]-PSK is used and you need to use old programs that 2242 support only this old interface, say Y. Otherwise N. 2243 2244 If unsure, say N. 2245 2246config GIANFAR 2247 tristate "Gianfar Ethernet" 2248 depends on FSL_SOC 2249 select PHYLIB 2250 select CRC32 2251 help 2252 This driver supports the Gigabit TSEC on the MPC83xx, MPC85xx, 2253 and MPC86xx family of chips, and the FEC on the 8540. 2254 2255config UCC_GETH 2256 tristate "Freescale QE Gigabit Ethernet" 2257 depends on QUICC_ENGINE 2258 select PHYLIB 2259 help 2260 This driver supports the Gigabit Ethernet mode of the QUICC Engine, 2261 which is available on some Freescale SOCs. 2262 2263config UGETH_MAGIC_PACKET 2264 bool "Magic Packet detection support" 2265 depends on UCC_GETH 2266 2267config UGETH_FILTERING 2268 bool "Mac address filtering support" 2269 depends on UCC_GETH 2270 2271config UGETH_TX_ON_DEMAND 2272 bool "Transmit on Demand support" 2273 depends on UCC_GETH 2274 2275config MV643XX_ETH 2276 tristate "Marvell Discovery (643XX) and Orion ethernet support" 2277 depends on MV64360 || MV64X60 || (PPC_MULTIPLATFORM && PPC32) || PLAT_ORION 2278 select MII 2279 help 2280 This driver supports the gigabit ethernet MACs in the 2281 Marvell Discovery PPC/MIPS chipset family (MV643XX) and 2282 in the Marvell Orion ARM SoC family. 2283 2284 Some boards that use the Discovery chipset are the Momenco 2285 Ocelot C and Jaguar ATX and Pegasos II. 2286 2287config QLA3XXX 2288 tristate "QLogic QLA3XXX Network Driver Support" 2289 depends on PCI 2290 help 2291 This driver supports QLogic ISP3XXX gigabit Ethernet cards. 2292 2293 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2294 will be called qla3xxx. 2295 2296config ATL1 2297 tristate "Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2298 depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL 2299 select CRC32 2300 select MII 2301 help 2302 This driver supports the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. 2303 2304 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2305 will be called atl1. 2306 2307endif # NETDEV_1000 2308 2309# 2310# 10 Gigabit Ethernet 2311# 2312 2313menuconfig NETDEV_10000 2314 bool "Ethernet (10000 Mbit)" 2315 depends on !UML 2316 default y 2317 ---help--- 2318 Say Y here to get to see options for 10 Gigabit Ethernet drivers. 2319 This option alone does not add any kernel code. 2320 2321 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled. 2322 2323if NETDEV_10000 2324 2325config CHELSIO_T1 2326 tristate "Chelsio 10Gb Ethernet support" 2327 depends on PCI 2328 select CRC32 2329 help 2330 This driver supports Chelsio gigabit and 10-gigabit 2331 Ethernet cards. More information about adapter features and 2332 performance tuning is in <file:Documentation/networking/cxgb.txt>. 2333 2334 For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 2335 our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 2336 2337 For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 2338 <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 2339 2340 Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 2341 2342 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2343 will be called cxgb. 2344 2345config CHELSIO_T1_1G 2346 bool "Chelsio gigabit Ethernet support" 2347 depends on CHELSIO_T1 2348 help 2349 Enables support for Chelsio's gigabit Ethernet PCI cards. If you 2350 are using only 10G cards say 'N' here. 2351 2352config CHELSIO_T3 2353 tristate "Chelsio Communications T3 10Gb Ethernet support" 2354 depends on PCI && INET 2355 select FW_LOADER 2356 select INET_LRO 2357 help 2358 This driver supports Chelsio T3-based gigabit and 10Gb Ethernet 2359 adapters. 2360 2361 For general information about Chelsio and our products, visit 2362 our website at <http://www.chelsio.com>. 2363 2364 For customer support, please visit our customer support page at 2365 <http://www.chelsio.com/support.htm>. 2366 2367 Please send feedback to <linux-bugs@chelsio.com>. 2368 2369 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2370 will be called cxgb3. 2371 2372config EHEA 2373 tristate "eHEA Ethernet support" 2374 depends on IBMEBUS && INET && SPARSEMEM 2375 select INET_LRO 2376 ---help--- 2377 This driver supports the IBM pSeries eHEA ethernet adapter. 2378 2379 To compile the driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2380 will be called ehea. 2381 2382config IXGBE 2383 tristate "Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express adapters support" 2384 depends on PCI && INET 2385 select INET_LRO 2386 ---help--- 2387 This driver supports Intel(R) 10GbE PCI Express family of 2388 adapters. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 2389 to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 2390 2391 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 2392 2393 For general information and support, go to the Intel support 2394 website at: 2395 2396 <http://support.intel.com> 2397 2398 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2399 will be called ixgbe. 2400 2401config IXGB 2402 tristate "Intel(R) PRO/10GbE support" 2403 depends on PCI 2404 ---help--- 2405 This driver supports Intel(R) PRO/10GbE family of adapters for 2406 PCI-X type cards. For PCI-E type cards, use the "ixgbe" driver 2407 instead. For more information on how to identify your adapter, go 2408 to the Adapter & Driver ID Guide at: 2409 2410 <http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm> 2411 2412 For general information and support, go to the Intel support 2413 website at: 2414 2415 <http://support.intel.com> 2416 2417 More specific information on configuring the driver is in 2418 <file:Documentation/networking/ixgb.txt>. 2419 2420 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2421 will be called ixgb. 2422 2423config S2IO 2424 tristate "S2IO 10Gbe XFrame NIC" 2425 depends on PCI 2426 ---help--- 2427 This driver supports the 10Gbe XFrame NIC of S2IO. 2428 More specific information on configuring the driver is in 2429 <file:Documentation/networking/s2io.txt>. 2430 2431config MYRI10GE 2432 tristate "Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet support" 2433 depends on PCI && INET 2434 select FW_LOADER 2435 select CRC32 2436 select INET_LRO 2437 ---help--- 2438 This driver supports Myricom Myri-10G Dual Protocol interface in 2439 Ethernet mode. If the eeprom on your board is not recent enough, 2440 you will need a newer firmware image. 2441 You may get this image or more information, at: 2442 2443 <http://www.myri.com/scs/download-Myri10GE.html> 2444 2445 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2446 will be called myri10ge. 2447 2448config NETXEN_NIC 2449 tristate "NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Ethernet NIC" 2450 depends on PCI 2451 help 2452 This enables the support for NetXen's Gigabit Ethernet card. 2453 2454config NIU 2455 tristate "Sun Neptune 10Gbit Ethernet support" 2456 depends on PCI 2457 help 2458 This enables support for cards based upon Sun's 2459 Neptune chipset. 2460 2461config PASEMI_MAC 2462 tristate "PA Semi 1/10Gbit MAC" 2463 depends on PPC_PASEMI && PCI 2464 select PHYLIB 2465 select INET_LRO 2466 help 2467 This driver supports the on-chip 1/10Gbit Ethernet controller on 2468 PA Semi's PWRficient line of chips. 2469 2470config MLX4_CORE 2471 tristate 2472 depends on PCI 2473 default n 2474 2475config MLX4_DEBUG 2476 bool "Verbose debugging output" if (MLX4_CORE && EMBEDDED) 2477 depends on MLX4_CORE 2478 default y 2479 ---help--- 2480 This option causes debugging code to be compiled into the 2481 mlx4_core driver. The output can be turned on via the 2482 debug_level module parameter (which can also be set after 2483 the driver is loaded through sysfs). 2484 2485config TEHUTI 2486 tristate "Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet" 2487 depends on PCI 2488 help 2489 Tehuti Networks 10G Ethernet NIC 2490 2491config BNX2X 2492 tristate "Broadcom NetXtremeII 10Gb support" 2493 depends on PCI 2494 select ZLIB_INFLATE 2495 select LIBCRC32C 2496 help 2497 This driver supports Broadcom NetXtremeII 10 gigabit Ethernet cards. 2498 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2499 will be called bnx2x. This is recommended. 2500 2501source "drivers/net/sfc/Kconfig" 2502 2503endif # NETDEV_10000 2504 2505source "drivers/net/tokenring/Kconfig" 2506 2507source "drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig" 2508 2509source "drivers/net/usb/Kconfig" 2510 2511source "drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig" 2512 2513source "drivers/net/wan/Kconfig" 2514 2515source "drivers/atm/Kconfig" 2516 2517source "drivers/s390/net/Kconfig" 2518 2519config XEN_NETDEV_FRONTEND 2520 tristate "Xen network device frontend driver" 2521 depends on XEN 2522 default y 2523 help 2524 The network device frontend driver allows the kernel to 2525 access network devices exported exported by a virtual 2526 machine containing a physical network device driver. The 2527 frontend driver is intended for unprivileged guest domains; 2528 if you are compiling a kernel for a Xen guest, you almost 2529 certainly want to enable this. 2530 2531config ISERIES_VETH 2532 tristate "iSeries Virtual Ethernet driver support" 2533 depends on PPC_ISERIES 2534 2535config RIONET 2536 tristate "RapidIO Ethernet over messaging driver support" 2537 depends on RAPIDIO 2538 2539config RIONET_TX_SIZE 2540 int "Number of outbound queue entries" 2541 depends on RIONET 2542 default "128" 2543 2544config RIONET_RX_SIZE 2545 int "Number of inbound queue entries" 2546 depends on RIONET 2547 default "128" 2548 2549config FDDI 2550 bool "FDDI driver support" 2551 depends on (PCI || EISA || TC) 2552 help 2553 Fiber Distributed Data Interface is a high speed local area network 2554 design; essentially a replacement for high speed Ethernet. FDDI can 2555 run over copper or fiber. If you are connected to such a network and 2556 want a driver for the FDDI card in your computer, say Y here (and 2557 then also Y to the driver for your FDDI card, below). Most people 2558 will say N. 2559 2560config DEFXX 2561 tristate "Digital DEFTA/DEFEA/DEFPA adapter support" 2562 depends on FDDI && (PCI || EISA || TC) 2563 ---help--- 2564 This is support for the DIGITAL series of TURBOchannel (DEFTA), 2565 EISA (DEFEA) and PCI (DEFPA) controllers which can connect you 2566 to a local FDDI network. 2567 2568 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2569 will be called defxx. If unsure, say N. 2570 2571config DEFXX_MMIO 2572 bool 2573 prompt "Use MMIO instead of PIO" if PCI || EISA 2574 depends on DEFXX 2575 default n if PCI || EISA 2576 default y 2577 ---help--- 2578 This instructs the driver to use EISA or PCI memory-mapped I/O 2579 (MMIO) as appropriate instead of programmed I/O ports (PIO). 2580 Enabling this gives an improvement in processing time in parts 2581 of the driver, but it may cause problems with EISA (DEFEA) 2582 adapters. TURBOchannel does not have the concept of I/O ports, 2583 so MMIO is always used for these (DEFTA) adapters. 2584 2585 If unsure, say N. 2586 2587config SKFP 2588 tristate "SysKonnect FDDI PCI support" 2589 depends on FDDI && PCI 2590 select BITREVERSE 2591 ---help--- 2592 Say Y here if you have a SysKonnect FDDI PCI adapter. 2593 The following adapters are supported by this driver: 2594 - SK-5521 (SK-NET FDDI-UP) 2595 - SK-5522 (SK-NET FDDI-UP DAS) 2596 - SK-5541 (SK-NET FDDI-FP) 2597 - SK-5543 (SK-NET FDDI-LP) 2598 - SK-5544 (SK-NET FDDI-LP DAS) 2599 - SK-5821 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64) 2600 - SK-5822 (SK-NET FDDI-UP64 DAS) 2601 - SK-5841 (SK-NET FDDI-FP64) 2602 - SK-5843 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64) 2603 - SK-5844 (SK-NET FDDI-LP64 DAS) 2604 - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS Fibre SC 2605 - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre SC 2606 - Netelligent 100 FDDI DAS UTP 2607 - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS UTP 2608 - Netelligent 100 FDDI SAS Fibre MIC 2609 2610 Read <file:Documentation/networking/skfp.txt> for information about 2611 the driver. 2612 2613 Questions concerning this driver can be addressed to: 2614 <linux@syskonnect.de> 2615 2616 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2617 will be called skfp. This is recommended. 2618 2619config HIPPI 2620 bool "HIPPI driver support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2621 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && INET && PCI 2622 help 2623 HIgh Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) is a 800Mbit/sec and 2624 1600Mbit/sec dual-simplex switched or point-to-point network. HIPPI 2625 can run over copper (25m) or fiber (300m on multi-mode or 10km on 2626 single-mode). HIPPI networks are commonly used for clusters and to 2627 connect to super computers. If you are connected to a HIPPI network 2628 and have a HIPPI network card in your computer that you want to use 2629 under Linux, say Y here (you must also remember to enable the driver 2630 for your HIPPI card below). Most people will say N here. 2631 2632config ROADRUNNER 2633 tristate "Essential RoadRunner HIPPI PCI adapter support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2634 depends on HIPPI && PCI 2635 help 2636 Say Y here if this is your PCI HIPPI network card. 2637 2638 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module 2639 will be called rrunner. If unsure, say N. 2640 2641config ROADRUNNER_LARGE_RINGS 2642 bool "Use large TX/RX rings (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2643 depends on ROADRUNNER 2644 help 2645 If you say Y here, the RoadRunner driver will preallocate up to 2 MB 2646 of additional memory to allow for fastest operation, both for 2647 transmitting and receiving. This memory cannot be used by any other 2648 kernel code or by user space programs. Say Y here only if you have 2649 the memory. 2650 2651config PLIP 2652 tristate "PLIP (parallel port) support" 2653 depends on PARPORT 2654 ---help--- 2655 PLIP (Parallel Line Internet Protocol) is used to create a 2656 reasonably fast mini network consisting of two (or, rarely, more) 2657 local machines. A PLIP link from a Linux box is a popular means to 2658 install a Linux distribution on a machine which doesn't have a 2659 CD-ROM drive (a minimal system has to be transferred with floppies 2660 first). The kernels on both machines need to have this PLIP option 2661 enabled for this to work. 2662 2663 The PLIP driver has two modes, mode 0 and mode 1. The parallel 2664 ports (the connectors at the computers with 25 holes) are connected 2665 with "null printer" or "Turbo Laplink" cables which can transmit 4 2666 bits at a time (mode 0) or with special PLIP cables, to be used on 2667 bidirectional parallel ports only, which can transmit 8 bits at a 2668 time (mode 1); you can find the wiring of these cables in 2669 <file:Documentation/networking/PLIP.txt>. The cables can be up to 2670 15m long. Mode 0 works also if one of the machines runs DOS/Windows 2671 and has some PLIP software installed, e.g. the Crynwr PLIP packet 2672 driver (<http://oak.oakland.edu/simtel.net/msdos/pktdrvr-pre.html>) 2673 and winsock or NCSA's telnet. 2674 2675 If you want to use PLIP, say Y and read the PLIP mini-HOWTO as well 2676 as the NET-3-HOWTO, both available from 2677 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Note that the PLIP 2678 protocol has been changed and this PLIP driver won't work together 2679 with the PLIP support in Linux versions 1.0.x. This option enlarges 2680 your kernel by about 8 KB. 2681 2682 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2683 will be called plip. If unsure, say Y or M, in case you buy 2684 a laptop later. 2685 2686config PPP 2687 tristate "PPP (point-to-point protocol) support" 2688 select SLHC 2689 ---help--- 2690 PPP (Point to Point Protocol) is a newer and better SLIP. It serves 2691 the same purpose: sending Internet traffic over telephone (and other 2692 serial) lines. Ask your access provider if they support it, because 2693 otherwise you can't use it; most Internet access providers these 2694 days support PPP rather than SLIP. 2695 2696 To use PPP, you need an additional program called pppd as described 2697 in the PPP-HOWTO, available at 2698 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>. Make sure that you have 2699 the version of pppd recommended in <file:Documentation/Changes>. 2700 The PPP option enlarges your kernel by about 16 KB. 2701 2702 There are actually two versions of PPP: the traditional PPP for 2703 asynchronous lines, such as regular analog phone lines, and 2704 synchronous PPP which can be used over digital ISDN lines for 2705 example. If you want to use PPP over phone lines or other 2706 asynchronous serial lines, you need to say Y (or M) here and also to 2707 the next option, "PPP support for async serial ports". For PPP over 2708 synchronous lines, you should say Y (or M) here and to "Support 2709 synchronous PPP", below. 2710 2711 If you said Y to "Version information on all symbols" above, then 2712 you cannot compile the PPP driver into the kernel; you can then only 2713 compile it as a module. To compile this driver as a module, choose M 2714 here. The module will be called ppp_generic. 2715 2716config PPP_MULTILINK 2717 bool "PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2718 depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 2719 help 2720 PPP multilink is a protocol (defined in RFC 1990) which allows you 2721 to combine several (logical or physical) lines into one logical PPP 2722 connection, so that you can utilize your full bandwidth. 2723 2724 This has to be supported at the other end as well and you need a 2725 version of the pppd daemon which understands the multilink protocol. 2726 2727 If unsure, say N. 2728 2729config PPP_FILTER 2730 bool "PPP filtering" 2731 depends on PPP 2732 help 2733 Say Y here if you want to be able to filter the packets passing over 2734 PPP interfaces. This allows you to control which packets count as 2735 activity (i.e. which packets will reset the idle timer or bring up 2736 a demand-dialed link) and which packets are to be dropped entirely. 2737 You need to say Y here if you wish to use the pass-filter and 2738 active-filter options to pppd. 2739 2740 If unsure, say N. 2741 2742config PPP_ASYNC 2743 tristate "PPP support for async serial ports" 2744 depends on PPP 2745 select CRC_CCITT 2746 ---help--- 2747 Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over standard 2748 asynchronous serial ports, such as COM1 or COM2 on a PC. If you use 2749 a modem (not a synchronous or ISDN modem) to contact your ISP, you 2750 need this option. 2751 2752 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 2753 2754 If unsure, say Y. 2755 2756config PPP_SYNC_TTY 2757 tristate "PPP support for sync tty ports" 2758 depends on PPP 2759 help 2760 Say Y (or M) here if you want to be able to use PPP over synchronous 2761 (HDLC) tty devices, such as the SyncLink adapter. These devices 2762 are often used for high-speed leased lines like T1/E1. 2763 2764 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 2765 2766config PPP_DEFLATE 2767 tristate "PPP Deflate compression" 2768 depends on PPP 2769 select ZLIB_INFLATE 2770 select ZLIB_DEFLATE 2771 ---help--- 2772 Support for the Deflate compression method for PPP, which uses the 2773 Deflate algorithm (the same algorithm that gzip uses) to compress 2774 each PPP packet before it is sent over the wire. The machine at the 2775 other end of the PPP link (usually your ISP) has to support the 2776 Deflate compression method as well for this to be useful. Even if 2777 they don't support it, it is safe to say Y here. 2778 2779 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. 2780 2781config PPP_BSDCOMP 2782 tristate "PPP BSD-Compress compression" 2783 depends on PPP 2784 ---help--- 2785 Support for the BSD-Compress compression method for PPP, which uses 2786 the LZW compression method to compress each PPP packet before it is 2787 sent over the wire. The machine at the other end of the PPP link 2788 (usually your ISP) has to support the BSD-Compress compression 2789 method as well for this to be useful. Even if they don't support it, 2790 it is safe to say Y here. 2791 2792 The PPP Deflate compression method ("PPP Deflate compression", 2793 above) is preferable to BSD-Compress, because it compresses better 2794 and is patent-free. 2795 2796 Note that the BSD compression code will always be compiled as a 2797 module; it is called bsd_comp and will show up in the directory 2798 modules once you have said "make modules". If unsure, say N. 2799 2800config PPP_MPPE 2801 tristate "PPP MPPE compression (encryption) (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2802 depends on PPP && EXPERIMENTAL 2803 select CRYPTO 2804 select CRYPTO_SHA1 2805 select CRYPTO_ARC4 2806 select CRYPTO_ECB 2807 ---help--- 2808 Support for the MPPE Encryption protocol, as employed by the 2809 Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. 2810 2811 See http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ for information on 2812 configuring PPTP clients and servers to utilize this method. 2813 2814config PPPOE 2815 tristate "PPP over Ethernet (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2816 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP 2817 help 2818 Support for PPP over Ethernet. 2819 2820 This driver requires the latest version of pppd from the CVS 2821 repository at cvs.samba.org. Alternatively, see the 2822 RoaringPenguin package (<http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe>) 2823 which contains instruction on how to use this driver (under 2824 the heading "Kernel mode PPPoE"). 2825 2826config PPPOATM 2827 tristate "PPP over ATM" 2828 depends on ATM && PPP 2829 help 2830 Support PPP (Point to Point Protocol) encapsulated in ATM frames. 2831 This implementation does not yet comply with section 8 of RFC2364, 2832 which can lead to bad results if the ATM peer loses state and 2833 changes its encapsulation unilaterally. 2834 2835config PPPOL2TP 2836 tristate "PPP over L2TP (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2837 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PPP && INET 2838 help 2839 Support for PPP-over-L2TP socket family. L2TP is a protocol 2840 used by ISPs and enterprises to tunnel PPP traffic over UDP 2841 tunnels. L2TP is replacing PPTP for VPN uses. 2842 2843 This kernel component handles only L2TP data packets: a 2844 userland daemon handles L2TP the control protocol (tunnel 2845 and session setup). One such daemon is OpenL2TP 2846 (http://openl2tp.sourceforge.net/). 2847 2848config SLIP 2849 tristate "SLIP (serial line) support" 2850 ---help--- 2851 Say Y if you intend to use SLIP or CSLIP (compressed SLIP) to 2852 connect to your Internet service provider or to connect to some 2853 other local Unix box or if you want to configure your Linux box as a 2854 Slip/CSlip server for other people to dial in. SLIP (Serial Line 2855 Internet Protocol) is a protocol used to send Internet traffic over 2856 serial connections such as telephone lines or null modem cables; 2857 nowadays, the protocol PPP is more commonly used for this same 2858 purpose. 2859 2860 Normally, your access provider has to support SLIP in order for you 2861 to be able to use it, but there is now a SLIP emulator called SLiRP 2862 around (available from 2863 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 2864 allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection. If 2865 you plan to use SLiRP, make sure to say Y to CSLIP, below. The 2866 NET-3-HOWTO, available from 2867 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to 2868 configure SLIP. Note that you don't need this option if you just 2869 want to run term (term is a program which gives you almost full 2870 Internet connectivity if you have a regular dial up shell account on 2871 some Internet connected Unix computer. Read 2872 <http://www.bart.nl/~patrickr/term-howto/Term-HOWTO.html>). SLIP 2873 support will enlarge your kernel by about 4 KB. If unsure, say N. 2874 2875 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here. The module 2876 will be called slip. 2877 2878config SLIP_COMPRESSED 2879 bool "CSLIP compressed headers" 2880 depends on SLIP 2881 select SLHC 2882 ---help--- 2883 This protocol is faster than SLIP because it uses compression on the 2884 TCP/IP headers (not on the data itself), but it has to be supported 2885 on both ends. Ask your access provider if you are not sure and 2886 answer Y, just in case. You will still be able to use plain SLIP. If 2887 you plan to use SLiRP, the SLIP emulator (available from 2888 <ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/network/serial/>) which 2889 allows you to use SLIP over a regular dial up shell connection, you 2890 definitely want to say Y here. The NET-3-HOWTO, available from 2891 <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>, explains how to configure 2892 CSLIP. This won't enlarge your kernel. 2893 2894config SLHC 2895 tristate 2896 help 2897 This option enables Van Jacobsen serial line header compression 2898 routines. 2899 2900config SLIP_SMART 2901 bool "Keepalive and linefill" 2902 depends on SLIP 2903 help 2904 Adds additional capabilities to the SLIP driver to support the 2905 RELCOM line fill and keepalive monitoring. Ideal on poor quality 2906 analogue lines. 2907 2908config SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 2909 bool "Six bit SLIP encapsulation" 2910 depends on SLIP 2911 help 2912 Just occasionally you may need to run IP over hostile serial 2913 networks that don't pass all control characters or are only seven 2914 bit. Saying Y here adds an extra mode you can use with SLIP: 2915 "slip6". In this mode, SLIP will only send normal ASCII symbols over 2916 the serial device. Naturally, this has to be supported at the other 2917 end of the link as well. It's good enough, for example, to run IP 2918 over the async ports of a Camtec JNT Pad. If unsure, say N. 2919 2920config NET_FC 2921 bool "Fibre Channel driver support" 2922 depends on SCSI && PCI 2923 help 2924 Fibre Channel is a high speed serial protocol mainly used to connect 2925 large storage devices to the computer; it is compatible with and 2926 intended to replace SCSI. 2927 2928 If you intend to use Fibre Channel, you need to have a Fibre channel 2929 adaptor card in your computer; say Y here and to the driver for your 2930 adaptor below. You also should have said Y to "SCSI support" and 2931 "SCSI generic support". 2932 2933config NETCONSOLE 2934 tristate "Network console logging support (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2935 depends on EXPERIMENTAL 2936 ---help--- 2937 If you want to log kernel messages over the network, enable this. 2938 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 2939 2940config NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC 2941 bool "Dynamic reconfiguration of logging targets (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2942 depends on NETCONSOLE && SYSFS && EXPERIMENTAL 2943 select CONFIGFS_FS 2944 help 2945 This option enables the ability to dynamically reconfigure target 2946 parameters (interface, IP addresses, port numbers, MAC addresses) 2947 at runtime through a userspace interface exported using configfs. 2948 See <file:Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt> for details. 2949 2950config NETPOLL 2951 def_bool NETCONSOLE 2952 2953config NETPOLL_TRAP 2954 bool "Netpoll traffic trapping" 2955 default n 2956 depends on NETPOLL 2957 2958config NET_POLL_CONTROLLER 2959 def_bool NETPOLL 2960 2961config VIRTIO_NET 2962 tristate "Virtio network driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" 2963 depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO 2964 ---help--- 2965 This is the virtual network driver for virtio. It can be used with 2966 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. 2967 2968endif # NETDEVICES 2969