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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/awi.4 b/share/man/man4/awi.4 index 0f3c2c2..f227df2 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/awi.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/awi.4 @@ -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 |
