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diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 index b6b7860..b0d1331 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/wl.4 @@ -52,13 +52,13 @@ from 1 megabit to theoretically 2 megabits (roughly T1 in speed). .Pp The card has three fundamental hardware units, a so-called PSA or programmable storage area, a radio modem, -and a ethernet lan controller. +and a Ethernet lan controller. The latter component is the -ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 ethernet chip. -Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an ethernet system, +ancient (and not very honorable) Intel 82586 Ethernet chip. +Fundamentally it appears to the operating system as an Ethernet system, and speaks IEEE MAC addresses. The radio modem simply translates -ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz +Ethernet packets to/from radio packets, that are either at 2.4 GHz or 915 MHz depending on the radio modem. It supports a collision avoidance scheme. @@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ The lan controller supports promiscuous mode, broadcast, and multicasting (although there is a glitch in the latter). -"It thinks it is ethernet". +"It thinks it is Ethernet". .Pp How it is used depends on the kind of antennae deployed with it. Point to point -applications are possible as are ethernet-like lan use. +applications are possible as are Ethernet-like lan use. The vendor ships an omni-directional antennae that works in the vicinity of 400 feet (indoors). |