o add information about the debugging tools

o give proper attribution to Atsushi Onoe
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Sam Leffler 2003-09-25 23:56:20 +00:00
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@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd March 25, 2003
.Dd September 25, 2003
.Dt WLAN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -44,6 +44,29 @@ Currently it is required for the
and
.Xr ath 4
drivers but will eventually be required by all 802.11 drivers.
.Pp
If the associated interface is marked for debugging with, for example,
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ifconfig wi0 debug
.Ed
.Pp
then messages describing the operation of the 802.11 protocol will
be sent to the console.
With the interface marked for debugging, doing:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
sysctl debug.ieee80211=1
.Ed
.Pp
causes additional messages to be generated.
Many drivers will also display the contents of each 802.11 frame
sent and received when the interface is marked with
both debugging and ``link2''; e.g.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
ifconfig wi0 debug link2
.Ed
.Pp
Beware however that some management frames may be processed entirely within
the device and not be received by the host.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The module name of
.Nm
@ -63,10 +86,13 @@ The
driver first appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
Support for generic 802.11 devices was adapted from
Atsushi Onoe is the original author of this software.
The
.Nx
support was adapted to
.Fx
by
.An -nosplit
.An Sam Leffler Aq sam@FreeBSD.org .
.An Sam Leffler .
This manual page was written by
.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .