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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-17 14:01:23 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-04-17 14:01:23 +0000
commit0215c4413c37cb78e0b790795039710b0c95540e (patch)
tree0e82111176fe615da3e005bd2a578e361c0aa792 /share/man/man4/wpi.4
parentd7b6bab86f754dc45b1bf00bb29ceefec3232e56 (diff)
remove the CONFIGURATION section from the wireless pages:
the addition of the wpa options have shown just how unwieldy it had become, it's already in ifconfig(8) anyway, and "ifconfig -m" will get the relevant ones. ok dlg jsg
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: wpi.4,v 1.16 2007/09/11 18:10:15 damien Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: wpi.4,v 1.17 2008/04/17 14:01:22 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2007
.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved.
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 11 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: April 17 2008 $
.Os
.Dt WPI 4
.Sh NAME
@@ -72,110 +72,13 @@ WEP is not enabled by default.
The device has one temperature sensor.
Its value is in the range from 0 (coolest) to 285 (warmest).
Sensor data is updated every 500 milliseconds.
-.Sh CONFIGURATION
+.Pp
The
.Nm
driver can be configured at runtime with
.Xr ifconfig 8
or on boot with
-.Xr hostname.if 5
-using the following parameters:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
-.It Cm bssid Ar bssid
-Set the desired BSSID.
-.It Fl bssid
-Unset the desired BSSID.
-The interface will automatically select a BSSID in this mode, which is
-the default.
-.It Cm chan Ar n
-Set the channel (radio frequency) to be used by the driver based on
-the given channel ID
-.Ar n .
-.It Fl chan
-Unset the desired channel to be used by the driver.
-The driver will automatically select a channel in this mode, which is
-the default.
-.It Cm media Ar media
-The
-.Nm
-driver supports the following
-.Ar media
-types:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width autoselect -compact
-.It Cm autoselect
-Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
-.El
-.It Cm mediaopt Ar opts
-The
-.Nm
-driver supports the following media options:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width monitor -compact
-.It Cm monitor
-Select monitor mode.
-.El
-.It Fl mediaopt Ar opts
-Disable the specified media options on the driver and return it to the
-default mode of operation (BSS).
-.It Cm mode Ar mode
-The
-.Nm
-driver supports the following modes:
-.Pp
-.Bl -tag -width 11b -compact
-.It Cm 11a
-Force 802.11a operation.
-.It Cm 11b
-Force 802.11b operation.
-.It Cm 11g
-Force 802.11g operation.
-.El
-.It Cm nwid Ar id
-Set the network ID.
-The
-.Ar id
-can either be any text string up to 32 characters in length,
-or a series of hexadecimal digits up to 64 digits.
-An empty
-.Ar id
-string allows the interface to connect to any available access points.
-By default the
-.Nm
-driver uses an empty string.
-Note that network ID is synonymous with Extended Service Set ID (ESSID).
-.It Fl nwid
-Set the network ID to the empty string to allow the interface to connect
-to any available access point.
-.It Cm nwkey Ar key
-Enable WEP encryption using the specified
-.Ar key .
-The
-.Ar key
-can either be a string, a series of hexadecimal digits (preceded by
-.Sq 0x ) ,
-or a set of keys of the form
-.Dq n:k1,k2,k3,k4 ,
-where
-.Sq n
-specifies which of the keys will be used for transmitted packets,
-and the four keys,
-.Dq k1
-through
-.Dq k4 ,
-are configured as WEP keys.
-If a set of keys is specified, a comma
-.Pq Sq \&,
-within the key must be escaped with a backslash.
-Note that if multiple keys are used, their order must be the same within
-the network.
-.Nm
-is capable of using both 40-bit (5 characters or 10 hexadecimal digits)
-or 104-bit (13 characters or 26 hexadecimal digits) keys.
-.It Fl nwkey
-Disable WEP encryption.
-This is the default mode of operation.
-.El
+.Xr hostname.if 5 .
.Sh FILES
The driver needs at least version 2.14.1.5 of the following firmware file,
which is loaded when an interface is brought up: