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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-20 13:30:31 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-20 13:30:31 -0500
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parenta90779bfc83b7489270a8ce2c3fc9df20dac2b24 (diff)
parent2e9ff56efbc005ab2b92b68df65940c7459446c6 (diff)
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (150 commits) [PATCH] ipw2100: Update version ipw2100 stamp to 1.2.2 [PATCH] ipw2100: move mutex.h include from ipw2100.c to ipw2100.h [PATCH] ipw2100: semaphore to mutexes conversion [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix radiotap code gcc warning [PATCH] ipw2100: add radiotap headers to packtes captured in monitor mode [PATCH] ipw2x00: expend Copyright to 2006 [PATCH] drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200.c: fix an array overun [PATCH] ieee80211: Don't update network statistics from off-channel packets. [PATCH] ipw2200: Update ipw2200 version stamp to 1.1.1 [PATCH] ipw2200: switch to the new ipw2200-fw-3.0 image format [PATCH] ipw2200: wireless extension sensitivity threshold support [PATCH] ipw2200: Enables the "slow diversity" algorithm [PATCH] ipw2200: Set a meaningful silence threshold value [PATCH] ipw2200: export `debug' module param only if CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG [PATCH] ipw2200: Change debug level for firmware error logging [PATCH] ipw2200: Filter unsupported channels out in ad-hoc mode [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw_sw_reset() implementation inconsistent with comment [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix rf_kill is activated after mode change with 'disable=1' [PATCH] ipw2200: remove the WPA card associates to non-WPA AP checking [PATCH] ipw2200: Add signal level to iwlist scan output ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl585
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/00-INDEX2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/README.ipw210012
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/README.ipw220044
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/sis900.txt257
7 files changed, 56 insertions, 853 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 1c955883cf58..2975291e296a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
9DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ 9DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
10 kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ 10 kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
11 procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ 11 procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \
12 sis900.xml kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ 12 kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
13 gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml 13 gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml
14 14
15### 15###
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c2cbac93c3f..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,585 +0,0 @@
1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
4
5<book id="SiS900Guide">
6
7<bookinfo>
8
9<title>SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver</title>
10
11<authorgroup>
12<author>
13<firstname>Ollie</firstname>
14<surname>Lho</surname>
15</author>
16
17<author>
18<firstname>Lei Chun</firstname>
19<surname>Chang</surname>
20</author>
21</authorgroup>
22
23<edition>Document Revision: 0.3 for SiS900 driver v1.06 &amp; v1.07</edition>
24<pubdate>November 16, 2000</pubdate>
25
26<copyright>
27 <year>1999</year>
28 <holder>Silicon Integrated System Corp.</holder>
29</copyright>
30
31<legalnotice>
32 <para>
33 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
34 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
35 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
36 (at your option) any later version.
37 </para>
38
39 <para>
40 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
41 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
42 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
43 GNU General Public License for more details.
44 </para>
45
46 <para>
47 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
48 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
49 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
50 </para>
51</legalnotice>
52
53<abstract>
54<para>
55This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS 900/7016
56device driver under Linux.
57</para>
58</abstract>
59
60</bookinfo>
61
62<toc></toc>
63
64<chapter id="intro">
65 <title>Introduction</title>
66
67<para>
68This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet
69device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by Silicon Integrated
70System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
71The driver can be compiled as a loadable module and used under Linux kernel
72version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06)
73With minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x kernel
74(rev. 1.07), please see
75<xref linkend="install"/>. If you are intended to
76use the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own.
77</para>
78
79<para>
80The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including
81FTP, Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers.
82</para>
83
84<para>
85Please send all comments/fixes/questions to
86<ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">Lei-Chun Chang</ulink>.
87</para>
88</chapter>
89
90<chapter id="changes">
91 <title>Changes</title>
92
93<para>
94Changes made in Revision 1.07
95
96<orderedlist>
97<listitem>
98<para>
99Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most
100constant definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were
101corrected)
102</para>
103</listitem>
104
105<listitem>
106<para>
107Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not used,
108just simple pci&lowbar;find&lowbar;*.
109</para>
110</listitem>
111
112<listitem>
113<para>
114MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver.
115</para>
116</listitem>
117
118<listitem>
119<para>
120Bugs in read&lowbar;eeprom, mdio&lowbar;* were removed.
121</para>
122</listitem>
123
124<listitem>
125<para>
126Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and
127more comments were added to reflect the real situation.
128</para>
129</listitem>
130
131<listitem>
132<para>
133Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer
134descriptors.
135</para>
136</listitem>
137
138<listitem>
139<para>
140Better transmit/receive error handling.
141</para>
142</listitem>
143
144<listitem>
145<para>
146The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management
147scheme to improve performance.
148</para>
149</listitem>
150
151<listitem>
152<para>
153Names of variables were changed to be more consistent.
154</para>
155</listitem>
156
157<listitem>
158<para>
159Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code.
160</para>
161</listitem>
162
163<listitem>
164<para>
165Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly.
166</para>
167</listitem>
168
169<listitem>
170<para>
171Bug in mac probing fixed.
172</para>
173</listitem>
174
175<listitem>
176<para>
177Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround rule.
178</para>
179</listitem>
180
181<listitem>
182<para>
183Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver.
184</para>
185</listitem>
186
187<listitem>
188<para>
189Support for media select by ifconfig.
190</para>
191</listitem>
192
193<listitem>
194<para>
195Added kernel-doc extratable documentation.
196</para>
197</listitem>
198
199</orderedlist>
200</para>
201</chapter>
202
203<chapter id="tested">
204 <title>Tested Environment</title>
205
206<para>
207This driver is developed on the following hardware
208
209<itemizedlist>
210<listitem>
211
212<para>
213Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset
214</para>
215</listitem>
216<listitem>
217
218<para>
219SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card
220</para>
221</listitem>
222
223</itemizedlist>
224
225and tested with these software environments
226
227<itemizedlist>
228<listitem>
229
230<para>
231Red Hat Linux version 6.2
232</para>
233</listitem>
234<listitem>
235
236<para>
237Linux kernel version 2.4.0
238</para>
239</listitem>
240<listitem>
241
242<para>
243Netscape version 4.6
244</para>
245</listitem>
246<listitem>
247
248<para>
249NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18
250</para>
251</listitem>
252<listitem>
253
254<para>
255Samba version 2.0.3
256</para>
257</listitem>
258
259</itemizedlist>
260
261</para>
262
263</chapter>
264
265<chapter id="files">
266<title>Files in This Package</title>
267
268<para>
269In the package you can find these files:
270</para>
271
272<para>
273<variablelist>
274
275<varlistentry>
276<term>sis900.c</term>
277<listitem>
278<para>
279Driver source file in C
280</para>
281</listitem>
282</varlistentry>
283
284<varlistentry>
285<term>sis900.h</term>
286<listitem>
287<para>
288Header file for sis900.c
289</para>
290</listitem>
291</varlistentry>
292
293<varlistentry>
294<term>sis900.sgml</term>
295<listitem>
296<para>
297DocBook SGML source of the document
298</para>
299</listitem>
300</varlistentry>
301
302<varlistentry>
303<term>sis900.txt</term>
304<listitem>
305<para>
306Driver document in plain text
307</para>
308</listitem>
309</varlistentry>
310
311</variablelist>
312</para>
313</chapter>
314
315<chapter id="install">
316 <title>Installation</title>
317
318<para>
319Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux Kernel
320developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by the usuall channels
321for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar files for official kernel and
322patches for kernel pre-release can be download at
323<ulink url="http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/">official kernel ftp site</ulink>
324and its mirrors.
325The 1.06 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and pre-2.2.14,
326and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0.
327If you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read
328<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Ethernet HOWTO</ulink> and
329<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink> available from
330Linux Documentation Project (LDP).
331</para>
332
333<para>
334The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this
335is the most easy case.
336Be sure you have the appropriate packages for compiling kernel source.
337Those packages are listed in Document/Changes in kernel source
338distribution. If you have to install the driver other than those bundled
339in kernel release, you should have your driver file
340<filename>sis900.c</filename> and <filename>sis900.h</filename>
341copied into <filename class="directory">/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/</filename> first.
342There are two alternative ways to install the driver
343</para>
344
345<sect1>
346<title>Building the driver as loadable module</title>
347
348<para>
349To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to reconfigure
350the kernel to activate network support by
351</para>
352
353<para><screen>
354make menuconfig
355</screen></para>
356
357<para>
358Choose <quote>Loadable module support ---></quote>,
359then select <quote>Enable loadable module support</quote>.
360</para>
361
362<para>
363Choose <quote>Network Device Support ---></quote>, select
364<quote>Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)</quote>.
365Then select <quote>EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers</quote>,
366and choose <quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote>
367to <quote>M</quote>.
368</para>
369
370<para>
371After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by
372</para>
373
374<para><screen>
375make modules
376</screen></para>
377
378<para>
379The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the driver,
380the driver can be installed to proper place by
381</para>
382
383<para><screen>
384make modules_install
385</screen></para>
386
387<para>
388Load the driver into kernel by
389</para>
390
391<para><screen>
392insmod sis900
393</screen></para>
394
395<para>
396When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be view by
397</para>
398
399<para>
400<screen>
401dmesg
402</screen>
403
404or
405
406<screen>
407cat /var/log/message
408</screen>
409</para>
410
411<para>
412If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to this:
413</para>
414
415<para><screen>
416sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000
417eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4.
418eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
419eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
420</screen></para>
421
422<para>
423showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine.
424</para>
425
426<para>
427Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by
428</para>
429
430<para><screen>
431/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE
432</screen></para>
433
434<para>
435where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast address and
436netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used by the device.
437Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet) or "100baseT"
438(twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more information on how to configure
439network interface, please refer to
440<ulink url="http://www.tldp.org/">Networking HOWTO</ulink>.
441</para>
442
443<para>
444The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after the
445network interface is activated, you may have the message:
446</para>
447
448<para><screen>
449eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
450</screen></para>
451
452<para>
453If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get
454</para>
455
456<para><screen>
457eth0: Media Link Off
458</screen></para>
459
460<para>
461indicating that the link is failed.
462</para>
463</sect1>
464
465<sect1>
466<title>Building the driver into kernel</title>
467
468<para>
469If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose <quote>Y</quote>
470rather than <quote>M</quote> on
471<quote>SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support</quote>
472when configuring the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way
473</para>
474
475<para><screen>
476make clean
477
478make bzlilo
479</screen></para>
480
481<para>
482Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory.
483</para>
484
485</sect1>
486</chapter>
487
488<chapter id="problems">
489 <title>Known Problems and Bugs</title>
490
491<para>
492There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs please
493mail to <ulink url="mailto:lcchang@sis.com.tw">lcchang@sis.com.tw</ulink>
494
495<orderedlist>
496
497<listitem>
498<para>
499AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some
500bugs in the <quote>on the fly</quote> change of transceiver.
501</para>
502</listitem>
503
504<listitem>
505<para>
506A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code,
507the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is
508caught before bad things happen and reported with the message:
509
510<computeroutput>
511eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping
512</computeroutput>
513
514which can be viewed with <literal remap="tt">dmesg</literal> or
515<literal remap="tt">cat /var/log/message</literal>.
516</para>
517</listitem>
518
519<listitem>
520<para>
521The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet
522by ifconfig causes the media link down.
523</para>
524</listitem>
525
526</orderedlist>
527</para>
528</chapter>
529
530<chapter id="RHistory">
531 <title>Revision History</title>
532
533<para>
534<itemizedlist>
535
536<listitem>
537<para>
538November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem fixed
539and further clean up.
540</para>
541</listitem>
542
543<listitem>
544<para>
545November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up
546and optimization.
547</para>
548</listitem>
549
550<listitem>
551<para>
552August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release
553</para>
554</listitem>
555
556</itemizedlist>
557</para>
558</chapter>
559
560<chapter id="acknowledgements">
561 <title>Acknowledgements</title>
562
563<para>
564This driver was originally derived form
565<ulink url="mailto:becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov">Donald Becker</ulink>'s
566<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/pci-skeleton.c"
567>pci-skeleton</ulink> and
568<ulink url="ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/rtl8139.c"
569>rtl8139</ulink> drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion
570regarded with improvements made in revision 1.06.
571</para>
572
573<para>
574The 1.05 revision was created by
575<ulink url="mailto:cmhuang@sis.com.tw">Jim Huang</ulink>, AMD 79c901
576support was added by <ulink url="mailto:lcs@sis.com.tw">Chin-Shan Li</ulink>.
577</para>
578</chapter>
579
580<chapter id="functions">
581<title>List of Functions</title>
582!Idrivers/net/sis900.c
583</chapter>
584
585</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 81bc51369f59..28a31c5e2289 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -151,6 +151,13 @@ Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
151 151
152--------------------------- 152---------------------------
153 153
154What: eepro100 network driver
155When: January 2007
156Why: replaced by the e100 driver
157Who: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
158
159---------------------------
160
154What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC) 161What: Legacy /proc/pci interface (PCI_LEGACY_PROC)
155When: March 2006 162When: March 2006
156Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8) 163Why: deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
index 5b01d5cc4e95..b1181ce232d9 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
@@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ routing.txt
92 - the new routing mechanism 92 - the new routing mechanism
93shaper.txt 93shaper.txt
94 - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic. 94 - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic.
95sis900.txt
96 - SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet device driver info.
97sk98lin.txt 95sk98lin.txt
98 - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit 96 - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit
99 Ethernet Adapter family driver info 97 Ethernet Adapter family driver info
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100
index 3ab40379d1cf..f3fcaa41f774 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100
+++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2100
@@ -3,18 +3,18 @@ Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Driver for Linux in support of:
3 3
4Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection 4Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection
5 5
6Copyright (C) 2003-2005, Intel Corporation 6Copyright (C) 2003-2006, Intel Corporation
7 7
8README.ipw2100 8README.ipw2100
9 9
10Version: 1.1.3 10Version: git-1.1.5
11Date : October 17, 2005 11Date : January 25, 2006
12 12
13Index 13Index
14----------------------------------------------- 14-----------------------------------------------
150. IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE USING THIS DRIVER 150. IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE USING THIS DRIVER
161. Introduction 161. Introduction
172. Release 1.1.3 Current Features 172. Release git-1.1.5 Current Features
183. Command Line Parameters 183. Command Line Parameters
194. Sysfs Helper Files 194. Sysfs Helper Files
205. Radio Kill Switch 205. Radio Kill Switch
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ potential fixes and patches, as well as links to the development mailing list
89for the driver project. 89for the driver project.
90 90
91 91
922. Release 1.1.3 Current Supported Features 922. Release git-1.1.5 Current Supported Features
93----------------------------------------------- 93-----------------------------------------------
94- Managed (BSS) and Ad-Hoc (IBSS) 94- Managed (BSS) and Ad-Hoc (IBSS)
95- WEP (shared key and open) 95- WEP (shared key and open)
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ For installation support on the ipw2100 1.1.0 driver on Linux kernels
2709. License 2709. License
271----------------------------------------------- 271-----------------------------------------------
272 272
273 Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. 273 Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
274 274
275 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 275 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
276 under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as 276 under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2) as
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200 b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
index c6492d3839fa..acb30c5dcff3 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
+++ b/Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ both hardware adapters listed above. In this document the Intel(R)
10PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux will be used to reference the 10PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux will be used to reference the
11unified driver. 11unified driver.
12 12
13Copyright (C) 2004-2005, Intel Corporation 13Copyright (C) 2004-2006, Intel Corporation
14 14
15README.ipw2200 15README.ipw2200
16 16
@@ -26,9 +26,11 @@ Index
261.2. Module parameters 261.2. Module parameters
271.3. Wireless Extension Private Methods 271.3. Wireless Extension Private Methods
281.4. Sysfs Helper Files 281.4. Sysfs Helper Files
291.5. Supported channels
292. Ad-Hoc Networking 302. Ad-Hoc Networking
303. Interacting with Wireless Tools 313. Interacting with Wireless Tools
313.1. iwconfig mode 323.1. iwconfig mode
333.2. iwconfig sens
324. About the Version Numbers 344. About the Version Numbers
335. Firmware installation 355. Firmware installation
346. Support 366. Support
@@ -314,6 +316,35 @@ For the device level files, see /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200:
314 running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default. 316 running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default.
315 317
316 318
3191.5. Supported channels
320-----------------------------------------------
321
322Upon loading the Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Driver for Linux, a
323message stating the detected geography code and the number of 802.11
324channels supported by the card will be displayed in the log.
325
326The geography code corresponds to a regulatory domain as shown in the
327table below.
328
329 Supported channels
330Code Geography 802.11bg 802.11a
331
332--- Restricted 11 0
333ZZF Custom US/Canada 11 8
334ZZD Rest of World 13 0
335ZZA Custom USA & Europe & High 11 13
336ZZB Custom NA & Europe 11 13
337ZZC Custom Japan 11 4
338ZZM Custom 11 0
339ZZE Europe 13 19
340ZZJ Custom Japan 14 4
341ZZR Rest of World 14 0
342ZZH High Band 13 4
343ZZG Custom Europe 13 4
344ZZK Europe 13 24
345ZZL Europe 11 13
346
347
3172. Ad-Hoc Networking 3482. Ad-Hoc Networking
318----------------------------------------------- 349-----------------------------------------------
319 350
@@ -353,6 +384,15 @@ When configuring the mode of the adapter, all run-time configured parameters
353are reset to the value used when the module was loaded. This includes 384are reset to the value used when the module was loaded. This includes
354channels, rates, ESSID, etc. 385channels, rates, ESSID, etc.
355 386
3873.2 iwconfig sens
388-----------------------------------------------
389
390The 'iwconfig ethX sens XX' command will not set the signal sensitivity
391threshold, as described in iwconfig documentation, but rather the number
392of consecutive missed beacons that will trigger handover, i.e. roaming
393to another access point. At the same time, it will set the disassociation
394threshold to 3 times the given value.
395
356 396
3574. About the Version Numbers 3974. About the Version Numbers
358----------------------------------------------- 398-----------------------------------------------
@@ -408,7 +448,7 @@ For general information and support, go to:
4087. License 4487. License
409----------------------------------------------- 449-----------------------------------------------
410 450
411 Copyright(c) 2003 - 2005 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. 451 Copyright(c) 2003 - 2006 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
412 452
413 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 453 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
414 under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as 454 under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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1
2SiS 900/7016 Fast Ethernet Device Driver
3
4Ollie Lho
5
6Lei Chun Chang
7
8 Copyright © 1999 by Silicon Integrated System Corp.
9
10 This document gives some information on installation and usage of SiS
11 900/7016 device driver under Linux.
12
13 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
14 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
15 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
16 your option) any later version.
17
18 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
19 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
21 General Public License for more details.
22
23 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
24 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
25 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
26 USA
27 _________________________________________________________________
28
29 Table of Contents
30 1. Introduction
31 2. Changes
32 3. Tested Environment
33 4. Files in This Package
34 5. Installation
35
36 Building the driver as loadable module
37 Building the driver into kernel
38
39 6. Known Problems and Bugs
40 7. Revision History
41 8. Acknowledgements
42 _________________________________________________________________
43
44Chapter 1. Introduction
45
46 This document describes the revision 1.06 and 1.07 of SiS 900/7016
47 Fast Ethernet device driver under Linux. The driver is developed by
48 Silicon Integrated System Corp. and distributed freely under the GNU
49 General Public License (GPL). The driver can be compiled as a loadable
50 module and used under Linux kernel version 2.2.x. (rev. 1.06) With
51 minimal changes, the driver can also be used under 2.3.x and 2.4.x
52 kernel (rev. 1.07), please see Chapter 5. If you are intended to use
53 the driver for earlier kernels, you are on your own.
54
55 The driver is tested with usual TCP/IP applications including FTP,
56 Telnet, Netscape etc. and is used constantly by the developers.
57
58 Please send all comments/fixes/questions to Lei-Chun Chang.
59 _________________________________________________________________
60
61Chapter 2. Changes
62
63 Changes made in Revision 1.07
64
65 1. Separation of sis900.c and sis900.h in order to move most constant
66 definition to sis900.h (many of those constants were corrected)
67 2. Clean up PCI detection, the pci-scan from Donald Becker were not
68 used, just simple pci_find_*.
69 3. MII detection is modified to support multiple mii transceiver.
70 4. Bugs in read_eeprom, mdio_* were removed.
71 5. Lot of sis900 irrelevant comments were removed/changed and more
72 comments were added to reflect the real situation.
73 6. Clean up of physical/virtual address space mess in buffer
74 descriptors.
75 7. Better transmit/receive error handling.
76 8. The driver now uses zero-copy single buffer management scheme to
77 improve performance.
78 9. Names of variables were changed to be more consistent.
79 10. Clean up of auo-negotiation and timer code.
80 11. Automatic detection and change of PHY on the fly.
81 12. Bug in mac probing fixed.
82 13. Fix 630E equalier problem by modifying the equalizer workaround
83 rule.
84 14. Support for ICS1893 10/100 Interated PHYceiver.
85 15. Support for media select by ifconfig.
86 16. Added kernel-doc extratable documentation.
87 _________________________________________________________________
88
89Chapter 3. Tested Environment
90
91 This driver is developed on the following hardware
92
93 * Intel Celeron 500 with SiS 630 (rev 02) chipset
94 * SiS 900 (rev 01) and SiS 7016/7014 Fast Ethernet Card
95
96 and tested with these software environments
97
98 * Red Hat Linux version 6.2
99 * Linux kernel version 2.4.0
100 * Netscape version 4.6
101 * NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 18
102 * Samba version 2.0.3
103 _________________________________________________________________
104
105Chapter 4. Files in This Package
106
107 In the package you can find these files:
108
109 sis900.c
110 Driver source file in C
111
112 sis900.h
113 Header file for sis900.c
114
115 sis900.sgml
116 DocBook SGML source of the document
117
118 sis900.txt
119 Driver document in plain text
120 _________________________________________________________________
121
122Chapter 5. Installation
123
124 Silicon Integrated System Corp. is cooperating closely with core Linux
125 Kernel developers. The revisions of SiS 900 driver are distributed by
126 the usuall channels for kernel tar files and patches. Those kernel tar
127 files for official kernel and patches for kernel pre-release can be
128 download at official kernel ftp site and its mirrors. The 1.06
129 revision can be found in kernel version later than 2.3.15 and
130 pre-2.2.14, and 1.07 revision can be found in kernel version 2.4.0. If
131 you have no prior experience in networking under Linux, please read
132 Ethernet HOWTO and Networking HOWTO available from Linux Documentation
133 Project (LDP).
134
135 The driver is bundled in release later than 2.2.11 and 2.3.15 so this
136 is the most easy case. Be sure you have the appropriate packages for
137 compiling kernel source. Those packages are listed in Document/Changes
138 in kernel source distribution. If you have to install the driver other
139 than those bundled in kernel release, you should have your driver file
140 sis900.c and sis900.h copied into /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ first.
141 There are two alternative ways to install the driver
142 _________________________________________________________________
143
144Building the driver as loadable module
145
146 To build the driver as a loadable kernel module you have to
147 reconfigure the kernel to activate network support by
148
149make menuconfig
150
151 Choose "Loadable module support --->", then select "Enable loadable
152 module support".
153
154 Choose "Network Device Support --->", select "Ethernet (10 or
155 100Mbit)". Then select "EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers", and
156 choose "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" to "M".
157
158 After reconfiguring the kernel, you can make the driver module by
159
160make modules
161
162 The driver should be compiled with no errors. After compiling the
163 driver, the driver can be installed to proper place by
164
165make modules_install
166
167 Load the driver into kernel by
168
169insmod sis900
170
171 When loading the driver into memory, some information message can be
172 view by
173
174dmesg
175
176 or
177cat /var/log/message
178
179 If the driver is loaded properly you will have messages similar to
180 this:
181
182sis900.c: v1.07.06 11/07/2000
183eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:00:e8:83:7f:a4.
184eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
185eth0: Using SiS 900 Internal MII PHY as default
186
187 showing the version of the driver and the results of probing routine.
188
189 Once the driver is loaded, network can be brought up by
190
191/sbin/ifconfig eth0 IPADDR broadcast BROADCAST netmask NETMASK media TYPE
192
193 where IPADDR, BROADCAST, NETMASK are your IP address, broadcast
194 address and netmask respectively. TYPE is used to set medium type used
195 by the device. Typical values are "10baseT"(twisted-pair 10Mbps
196 Ethernet) or "100baseT" (twisted-pair 100Mbps Ethernet). For more
197 information on how to configure network interface, please refer to
198 Networking HOWTO.
199
200 The link status is also shown by kernel messages. For example, after
201 the network interface is activated, you may have the message:
202
203eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
204
205 If you try to unplug the twist pair (TP) cable you will get
206
207eth0: Media Link Off
208
209 indicating that the link is failed.
210 _________________________________________________________________
211
212Building the driver into kernel
213
214 If you want to make the driver into kernel, choose "Y" rather than "M"
215 on "SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support" when configuring
216 the kernel. Build the kernel image in the usual way
217
218make clean
219
220make bzlilo
221
222 Next time the system reboot, you have the driver in memory.
223 _________________________________________________________________
224
225Chapter 6. Known Problems and Bugs
226
227 There are some known problems and bugs. If you find any other bugs
228 please mail to lcchang@sis.com.tw
229
230 1. AM79C901 HomePNA PHY is not thoroughly tested, there may be some
231 bugs in the "on the fly" change of transceiver.
232 2. A bug is hidden somewhere in the receive buffer management code,
233 the bug causes NULL pointer reference in the kernel. This fault is
234 caught before bad things happen and reported with the message:
235 eth0: NULL pointer encountered in Rx ring, skipping which can be
236 viewed with dmesg or cat /var/log/message.
237 3. The media type change from 10Mbps to 100Mbps twisted-pair ethernet
238 by ifconfig causes the media link down.
239 _________________________________________________________________
240
241Chapter 7. Revision History
242
243 * November 13, 2000, Revision 1.07, seventh release, 630E problem
244 fixed and further clean up.
245 * November 4, 1999, Revision 1.06, Second release, lots of clean up
246 and optimization.
247 * August 8, 1999, Revision 1.05, Initial Public Release
248 _________________________________________________________________
249
250Chapter 8. Acknowledgements
251
252 This driver was originally derived form Donald Becker's pci-skeleton
253 and rtl8139 drivers. Donald also provided various suggestion regarded
254 with improvements made in revision 1.06.
255
256 The 1.05 revision was created by Jim Huang, AMD 79c901 support was
257 added by Chin-Shan Li.
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