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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-29 17:03:36 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-07-29 17:03:36 +0000
commit81b1f09d1719de6b92cbf326f820093887979231 (patch)
treedfce998cf704b9bdf0ea4d9cea2ec246c2ec3b19 /share/man/man4/acx.4
parent74b492306b6767e3343b6ed978b93b83ada89a38 (diff)
tweak the wep section somewhat, to bring it into line with what
we say for those devices which support wpa;
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man/man4/acx.4')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/acx.422
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/acx.4 b/share/man/man4/acx.4
index 6ae0b791d13..87171f7efca 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/acx.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/acx.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: acx.4,v 1.31 2008/04/17 14:01:22 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: acx.4,v 1.32 2008/07/29 17:03:35 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Theo de Raadt.
.\" Copyright (c) 2006 The DragonFly Project. All rights reserved.
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2008 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2008 $
.Os
.Dt ACX 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -80,16 +80,16 @@ capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to,
or to scan for access points.
.El
.Pp
+The
.Nm
-supports software WEP for ACX111 and hardware WEP for ACX100.
-Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is the de facto encryption standard
-for wireless networks.
-It can be typically configured in one of three modes:
-no encryption; 40-bit encryption; or 104-bit encryption.
-Unfortunately, due to serious weaknesses in WEP protocol
-it is strongly recommended that it not be used as the
-sole mechanism to secure wireless communication.
-WEP is not enabled by default.
+driver can be configured to use
+Wireless Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
+in software for ACX111
+or in hardware for ACX100.
+It is strongly recommended that WEP
+not be used as the sole mechanism
+to secure wireless communication,
+due to serious weaknesses in it.
.Pp
The transmit speed is user-selectable or can be adapted automatically by the
driver depending on the number of hardware transmission retries.