note that powersave is disabled by default (i.e. no need to explicitly

disable this), and provide a little more info on "duration";
some driver-specific notes hopefully to follow...

help/ok stsp

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8 b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
index b2fa392f34a..9fb8fbf1df1 100644
--- a/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
+++ b/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.328 2019/03/11 21:56:29 jmc Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.329 2019/03/26 19:47:08 jmc Exp $
 .\"	$NetBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.11 1996/01/04 21:27:29 pk Exp $
 .\"     $FreeBSD: ifconfig.8,v 1.16 1998/02/01 07:03:29 steve Exp $
 .\"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)ifconfig.8	8.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/94
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 11 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 26 2019 $
 .Dt IFCONFIG 8
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -1046,7 +1046,13 @@ enable WEP encryption using that
 .Ar key .
 .It Cm powersave Op Ar duration
 Enable 802.11 power saving mode.
-Optionally set the receiver sleep duration (in milliseconds).
+Power saving is disabled by default.
+If enabled, the receiver sleep period is set to 100ms,
+though some drivers allow this to be altered via the
+.Ar duration
+argument.
+.\" See driver specific manual pages
+.\" to see details of the implementation relevant to that device.
 .It Cm -powersave
 Disable 802.11 power saving mode.
 .It Cm scan