docs/110692: wi(4) man page doesn't say WPA is not supported
Chess Griffin
chess at chessgriffin.com
Sat Jan 26 21:10:04 UTC 2008
The following reply was made to PR docs/110692; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, wtd at pobox.com
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Subject: Re: docs/110692: wi(4) man page doesn't say WPA is not supported
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:07:21 -0500
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Brooks,=20
Thanks for the clarification. I have attached a patch adding a caveat
to wi(4) stating that it supports WEP but not WPA.
--=20
Chess Griffin
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--- wi.4.orig 2008-01-26 15:59:09.000000000 -0500
+++ wi.4 2008-01-26 16:00:29.000000000 -0500
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@
Prism cards prior to version 0.8.0 do not support IBSS mode.
.Pp
Symbol cards prior to version 2.50.00 do not support IBSS mode.
+.Pp
+The wi device driver supports WEP but does not support the WPA
+encryption standard.=20
.Sh BUGS
Not all the new messages are documented here, and many of them are
indications of transient errors that are not indications of serious
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