1ec8f24b7SThomas Gleixner# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only 2e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI 3e705c121SKalle Valo tristate "Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi) " 4ec5aecc0SLuca Coelho depends on PCI && HAS_IOMEM && CFG80211 5e705c121SKalle Valo select FW_LOADER 6e705c121SKalle Valo ---help--- 7e705c121SKalle Valo Select to build the driver supporting the: 8e705c121SKalle Valo 9e705c121SKalle Valo Intel Wireless WiFi Link Next-Gen AGN 10e705c121SKalle Valo 11e705c121SKalle Valo This option enables support for use with the following hardware: 12e705c121SKalle Valo Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6250AGN Adapter 13e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 6000 Series Wi-Fi Adapters (6200AGN and 6300AGN) 14e705c121SKalle Valo Intel WiFi Link 1000BGN 15e705c121SKalle Valo Intel Wireless WiFi 5150AGN 16e705c121SKalle Valo Intel Wireless WiFi 5100AGN, 5300AGN, and 5350AGN 17e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 6005 Series Wi-Fi Adapters 18e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 6030 Series Wi-Fi Adapters 19e705c121SKalle Valo Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6150BGN 2 Adapter 20e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 100 Series Wi-Fi Adapters (100BGN and 130BGN) 21e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 2000 Series Wi-Fi Adapters 22e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 7260 Wi-Fi Adapter 23e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 3160 Wi-Fi Adapter 24e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 7265 Wi-Fi Adapter 25e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 8260 Wi-Fi Adapter 26e705c121SKalle Valo Intel 3165 Wi-Fi Adapter 27e705c121SKalle Valo 28e705c121SKalle Valo 29e705c121SKalle Valo This driver uses the kernel's mac80211 subsystem. 30e705c121SKalle Valo 31e705c121SKalle Valo In order to use this driver, you will need a firmware 32e705c121SKalle Valo image for it. You can obtain the microcode from: 33e705c121SKalle Valo 34*e00c6d8dSFlavio Suligoi <https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/iwlwifi>. 35e705c121SKalle Valo 36e705c121SKalle Valo The firmware is typically installed in /lib/firmware. You can 37e705c121SKalle Valo look in the hotplug script /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent to 38e705c121SKalle Valo determine which directory FIRMWARE_DIR is set to when the script 39e705c121SKalle Valo runs. 40e705c121SKalle Valo 41e705c121SKalle Valo If you want to compile the driver as a module ( = code which can be 42e705c121SKalle Valo inserted in and removed from the running kernel whenever you want), 43cd238effSMauro Carvalho Chehab say M here and read <file:Documentation/kbuild/modules.rst>. The 44e705c121SKalle Valo module will be called iwlwifi. 45e705c121SKalle Valo 46e705c121SKalle Valoif IWLWIFI 47e705c121SKalle Valo 48e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_LEDS 49e705c121SKalle Valo bool 50e705c121SKalle Valo depends on LEDS_CLASS=y || LEDS_CLASS=IWLWIFI 51ec5aecc0SLuca Coelho depends on IWLMVM || IWLDVM 52e705c121SKalle Valo select LEDS_TRIGGERS 53e705c121SKalle Valo select MAC80211_LEDS 54e705c121SKalle Valo default y 55e705c121SKalle Valo 56e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLDVM 57e705c121SKalle Valo tristate "Intel Wireless WiFi DVM Firmware support" 58aca432f0SLuca Coelho depends on MAC80211 59e705c121SKalle Valo help 60e705c121SKalle Valo This is the driver that supports the DVM firmware. The list 61e705c121SKalle Valo of the devices that use this firmware is available here: 62e705c121SKalle Valo https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi#firmware 63e705c121SKalle Valo 64e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLMVM 65e705c121SKalle Valo tristate "Intel Wireless WiFi MVM Firmware support" 66e705c121SKalle Valo select WANT_DEV_COREDUMP 67aca432f0SLuca Coelho depends on MAC80211 68e705c121SKalle Valo help 69e705c121SKalle Valo This is the driver that supports the MVM firmware. The list 70e705c121SKalle Valo of the devices that use this firmware is available here: 71e705c121SKalle Valo https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/iwlwifi#firmware 72e705c121SKalle Valo 73e705c121SKalle Valo# don't call it _MODULE -- will confuse Kconfig/fixdep/... 74e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_OPMODE_MODULAR 75e705c121SKalle Valo bool 76e705c121SKalle Valo default y if IWLDVM=m 77e705c121SKalle Valo default y if IWLMVM=m 78e705c121SKalle Valo 79e705c121SKalle Valocomment "WARNING: iwlwifi is useless without IWLDVM or IWLMVM" 80e705c121SKalle Valo depends on IWLDVM=n && IWLMVM=n 81e705c121SKalle Valo 82e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_BCAST_FILTERING 83e705c121SKalle Valo bool "Enable broadcast filtering" 84e705c121SKalle Valo depends on IWLMVM 85e705c121SKalle Valo help 86e705c121SKalle Valo Say Y here to enable default bcast filtering configuration. 87e705c121SKalle Valo 88e705c121SKalle Valo Enabling broadcast filtering will drop any incoming wireless 89e705c121SKalle Valo broadcast frames, except some very specific predefined 90e705c121SKalle Valo patterns (e.g. incoming arp requests). 91e705c121SKalle Valo 92e705c121SKalle Valo If unsure, don't enable this option, as some programs might 93e705c121SKalle Valo expect incoming broadcasts for their normal operations. 94e705c121SKalle Valo 95e705c121SKalle Valomenu "Debugging Options" 96e705c121SKalle Valo 97e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_DEBUG 98e705c121SKalle Valo bool "Enable full debugging output in the iwlwifi driver" 99e705c121SKalle Valo ---help--- 100e705c121SKalle Valo This option will enable debug tracing output for the iwlwifi drivers 101e705c121SKalle Valo 102e705c121SKalle Valo This will result in the kernel module being ~100k larger. You can 103e705c121SKalle Valo control which debug output is sent to the kernel log by setting the 104e705c121SKalle Valo value in 105e705c121SKalle Valo 106e705c121SKalle Valo /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug 107e705c121SKalle Valo 108e705c121SKalle Valo This entry will only exist if this option is enabled. 109e705c121SKalle Valo 110e705c121SKalle Valo To set a value, simply echo an 8-byte hex value to the same file: 111e705c121SKalle Valo 112e705c121SKalle Valo % echo 0x43fff > /sys/module/iwlwifi/parameters/debug 113e705c121SKalle Valo 114e705c121SKalle Valo You can find the list of debug mask values in: 115e705c121SKalle Valo drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-debug.h 116e705c121SKalle Valo 117e705c121SKalle Valo If this is your first time using this driver, you should say Y here 118e705c121SKalle Valo as the debug information can assist others in helping you resolve 119e705c121SKalle Valo any problems you may encounter. 120e705c121SKalle Valo 121e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS 122e705c121SKalle Valo bool "iwlwifi debugfs support" 123e705c121SKalle Valo depends on MAC80211_DEBUGFS 124e705c121SKalle Valo ---help--- 125e705c121SKalle Valo Enable creation of debugfs files for the iwlwifi drivers. This 126e705c121SKalle Valo is a low-impact option that allows getting insight into the 127e705c121SKalle Valo driver's state at runtime. 128e705c121SKalle Valo 129e705c121SKalle Valoconfig IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING 130e705c121SKalle Valo bool "iwlwifi device access tracing" 131e705c121SKalle Valo depends on EVENT_TRACING 132e705c121SKalle Valo default y 133e705c121SKalle Valo help 134e705c121SKalle Valo Say Y here to trace all commands, including TX frames and IO 135e705c121SKalle Valo accesses, sent to the device. If you say yes, iwlwifi will 136e705c121SKalle Valo register with the ftrace framework for event tracing and dump 137e705c121SKalle Valo all this information to the ringbuffer, you may need to 138e705c121SKalle Valo increase the ringbuffer size. See the ftrace documentation 139e705c121SKalle Valo for more information. 140e705c121SKalle Valo 141e705c121SKalle Valo When tracing is not enabled, this option still has some 142e705c121SKalle Valo (though rather small) overhead. 143e705c121SKalle Valo 144e705c121SKalle Valo If unsure, say Y so we can help you better when problems 145e705c121SKalle Valo occur. 146e705c121SKalle Valoendmenu 147e705c121SKalle Valo 148e705c121SKalle Valoendif 149