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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-28 23:53:39 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2003-06-28 23:53:39 +0000
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Hiten's patchset for section four manpages, slightly edited by me.
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@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ BSS) mode.
.Pp
In infrastructure mode, it communicates with an Access Point
which serves as a link-layer bridge between an Ethernet and
-the wireless network. An access point also provides roaming capability
+the wireless network.
+An access point also provides roaming capability
which allows wireless node to move between access points.
.Pp
In adhoc mode, it communicates peer to peer.
@@ -40,7 +41,8 @@ In addition to these two mode in IEEE 802.11 specification, the
driver also supports a variant of adhoc mode out of spec for DS radio cards,
which makes possible to communicate with adhoc mode of
.Xr wi 8
-driver. The NWID doesn't affect in this mode.
+driver.
+The NWID doesn't affect in this mode.
.Pp
For more information on configuring this device, see
.Xr ifconfig 8
@@ -78,7 +80,8 @@ and
.Em DS2
media types, while the FH cards support
.Em FH1
-media type. For each media type,
+media type.
+For each media type,
.Em adhoc
mediaopt can be used to indicate the driver to operate in adhoc mode.
For DS radio cards,
@@ -92,7 +95,8 @@ compatible adhoc mode.
Indicates that the driver was not able to allocate 32kb of PCMCIA bus
address space into which to map the device; the driver will use the
(slightly slower) i/o-space only access methods to read and write to
-the shared memory. Since by default,
+the shared memory.
+Since by default,
.Nx ,
only allocates 16kb of
address space per PCMCIA controller, this message is in some sense to
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