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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig index 56f41c714d3..c8f6286dd35 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/Kconfig @@ -26,11 +26,25 @@ config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE depends on HOSTAP ---help--- Configure Host AP driver to include support for firmware image - download. Current version supports only downloading to volatile, i.e., - RAM memory. Flash upgrade is not yet supported. + download. This option by itself only enables downloading to the + volatile memory, i.e. the card RAM. This option is required to + support cards that don't have firmware in flash, such as D-Link + DWL-520 rev E and D-Link DWL-650 rev P. - Firmware image downloading needs user space tool, prism2_srec. It is - available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/. + Firmware image downloading needs a user space tool, prism2_srec. + It is available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/. + +config HOSTAP_FIRMWARE_NVRAM + bool "Support for non-volatile firmware download" + depends on HOSTAP_FIRMWARE + ---help--- + Allow Host AP driver to write firmware images to the non-volatile + card memory, i.e. flash memory that survives power cycling. + Enable this option if you want to be able to change card firmware + permanently. + + Firmware image downloading needs a user space tool, prism2_srec. + It is available from http://hostap.epitest.fi/. config HOSTAP_PLX tristate "Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3 in PLX9052 PCI adaptors" |