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freebsd/share/man/man4/wlan.4
Hiten Pandya 10626faea4 WLAN related fixes:
- Add some wlan(4) related cross-references.
	- Add some "device" lines to SYNOPSIS
	- Correct grammar/sentencing in ath_hal(4) manual page

PR:		docs/54114
Submitted by: 	Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
Approved by:	des (mentor)
2003-07-18 11:40:41 +00:00

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.Dd March 25, 2003
.Dt WLAN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm wlan
.Nd generic 802.11 link-layer support
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "device wlan"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
device provides generic code to support 802.11
drivers, including host AP mode.
Currently it is required for the
.Xr wi 4 ,
.Xr an 4
and
.Xr ath 4
drivers but will eventually be required by all 802.11 drivers.
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
The module name of
.Nm
was used to be compatible with
.Nx .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr an 4 ,
.Xr ath 4 ,
.Xr awi 4 ,
.Xr netintro 4 ,
.Xr wi 4
.Sh STANDARDS
More information can be found in the IEEE 802.11 Standard.
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
Support for generic 802.11 devices was adapted from
.Nx
by
.An -nosplit
.An Sam Leffler Aq sam@FreeBSD.org .
This manual page was written by
.An Tom Rhodes Aq trhodes@FreeBSD.org .