docs/55442: [PATCH] correction of awi(4)
Lukas Ertl
l.ertl at univie.ac.at
Sun Aug 10 11:20:22 UTC 2003
>Number: 55442
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] correction of awi(4)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 10 04:20:17 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lukas Ertl
>Release: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Vienna University Computer Center
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD korben 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #24: Sat Aug 9 13:17:00 CEST 2003 le at korben:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KORBEN i386
>Description:
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- awi.4.diff begins here ---
Index: share/man/man4/awi.4
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/bsdcvs/src/share/man/man4/awi.4,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -r1.13 awi.4
--- share/man/man4/awi.4 28 Jun 2003 23:53:37 -0000 1.13
+++ share/man/man4/awi.4 10 Aug 2003 10:47:47 -0000
@@ -30,16 +30,16 @@
which serves as a link-layer bridge between an Ethernet and
the wireless network.
An access point also provides roaming capability
-which allows wireless node to move between access points.
+which allows wireless nodes to move between access points.
.Pp
In adhoc mode, it communicates peer to peer.
Though it is more efficient to communicate between wireless nodes,
the coverage is limited spatially due to lack of roaming capability.
.Pp
-In addition to these two mode in IEEE 802.11 specification, the
+In addition to these two modes in the IEEE 802.11 specification, the
.Nm
driver also supports a variant of adhoc mode out of spec for DS radio cards,
-which makes possible to communicate with adhoc mode of
+which makes it possible to communicate with adhoc mode of
.Xr wi 8
driver.
The NWID doesn't affect in this mode.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
(slightly slower) i/o-space only access methods to read and write to
the shared memory.
Since by default,
-.Nx ,
+.Nx
only allocates 16kb of
address space per PCMCIA controller, this message is in some sense to
be expected and should not be a cause for alarm.
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
.It "awi0: association failed (reason %d)"
The access point refuses the association request from the device.
.It "awi0: no recent beacons from %s; rescanning"
-The device has not heard a beacon from its currently associated Access
+The device has not seen a beacon from its currently associated Access
Point recently, and is looking for a new access point.
.It "awi0: transmit timeout"
The device failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a
@@ -157,6 +157,6 @@
.An Bill Sommerfeld Aq sommerfeld at netbsd.org .
Then the
.Nm
-driver module completely rewritten to support cards with DS phy and
+driver module was completely rewritten to support cards with DS phy and
to support adhoc mode by
.An Atsushi Onoe Aq onoe at netbsd.org .
--- awi.4.diff ends here ---
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