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authorStefan Sperling <stsp@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-02-21 08:36:44 +0000
committerStefan Sperling <stsp@cvs.openbsd.org>2015-02-21 08:36:44 +0000
commitdf6a85e5ca2bf6c72af86a2dbaa739cc6dd10891 (patch)
tree9d8d00524fb20d6b00faf4ad21e19de9b04d2124 /share
parent876cb2520443be0e02d65e771be8cefb5c208faa (diff)
Document known bugs in iwm(4) which are unlikely to get fixed for 5.7.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/iwm.414
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/iwm.4 b/share/man/man4/iwm.4
index 55a2d905d1f..4b08b1be5bd 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/iwm.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/iwm.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: iwm.4,v 1.5 2015/02/10 20:37:15 stsp Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: iwm.4,v 1.6 2015/02/21 08:36:43 stsp Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2007,2008
.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved.
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: February 10 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: February 21 2015 $
.Dt IWM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -141,3 +141,13 @@ the adapters.
Additional work is required in
.Xr ieee80211 9
before those features can be supported.
+.Sh BUGS
+The firmware crashes if the MAC address is changed with
+.Dl # ifconfig iwm0 lladdr ...
+.Pp
+Occasionally, firmware errors occur before association to a wireless
+network has completed. Several attempts may be required before link
+is successfully established.
+.Pp
+802.11a support is disabled because transmitting packets in this mode
+does not work yet.