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# 272461 02-Oct-2014 gjb

Copy stable/10@r272459 to releng/10.1 as part of
the 10.1-RELEASE process.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 216756 28-Dec-2010 uqs

Revert most of r210764, now that mdocml does the right
thing with empty quotation macros.

Requested by: Alex Kozlov


# 210764 02-Aug-2010 uqs

mdoc: make sure to pass at least one argument to quotation macros


# 141846 13-Feb-2005 ru

Expand *n't contractions.


# 140442 18-Jan-2005 ru

Sort sections.


# 126645 05-Mar-2004 rse

fix reference to sysctl variable: machdep.an_cache_mode -> hw.an.an_cache_mode


# 108401 29-Dec-2002 ambrisko

Add support for MPI-350 the mini-pci Cisco Aironet card. This needs more
work. The interface was gleaned from the Linux driver. Currently only
one RX & one TX buffer are used. Firmware support is not tested so for the
MPI-350 so it is disabled. Signal cache and monitor mode are not supported
yet. Signal cache is not supported since in encapsulation mode ethernet
frames are returned by the chip. LAN monitor mode support will be added
shortly. Thanks to Warner for the MPI-350 card he sent me.

Add support for RSSI map from PR kern/32880 which was incomplete. Enhanced
with the ability to select the cache mode of raw, dbm or per-cent.

Clean up Signal/Noise/Quality structures and units with help from
Marco Molteni.

Change flash to use a malloc'ed buffer when needed.

PR: kern/32880
Submitted by: Douglas S. J. De Couto decouto@pdos.lcs.mit.edu,
Marco Molteni
MFC: 3 weeks


# 108317 27-Dec-2002 schweikh

english(4) police.


# 108182 22-Dec-2002 pb

Fix typo: vunerable -> vulnerable.


# 106433 04-Nov-2002 dwmalone

The symbol for Hertz is Hz.


# 99968 14-Jul-2002 charnier

The .Nm utility


# 91844 07-Mar-2002 keramida

Fix typo: capablities -> capabilities.


# 89380 15-Jan-2002 ambrisko

Make man page and usage statement match reality submitted by Ruslan,
Clean up "n to m" type options with "n-m" and some other improvements
suggested by Ruslan.

Change -C option to report the transmit key "4" if in "Home" mode.

Submitted by: ru
Approved by: imp, ru


# 89212 10-Jan-2002 ru

mdoc(7) police:

Fixed bugs from previous delta:

- Removed duplicate -m and -o options from SYNOPSIS
- Added missing -L option to SYNOPSIS
- Removed duplicate -M option from DESCRIPTION
- Tidy up the markup


# 88748 31-Dec-2001 ambrisko

Fix bugs in the structure for rx_frame by making gap length one byte and
a packed array so sizeof work. This broke RFMON mode and passing
up 802.11 packets.

The Linux emulation code was derived from the open source Linux driver to
maintain compatibility.

LEAP support is added, hints from Richard Johnson. I've verified this
locally with PC350v42510.img firmware. More bug fixing from Marco to
fix long passwords.

Change DELAYs in flash part of driver to FLASH_DELAY which uses tsleep
so it doesn't look like your system died during a flash update.

Install header files in /usr/include/dev/an

Cleanup some ifmedia bugs add "Home" key mode to ifmedia and ancontrol.
This way you can manage 2 keys a little easier. Map the home mode into
key 5. Enhance ifconfig to dump the various configured SSIDs. I use
a bunch of different ones and roam between them. Use the syntax similar
to the WEP keys to deal with setting difference SSIDs.

Bump up up the Card capabilities RID since they added 2 bytes to it
in the latest firmware. Thankfully we changed it from a terminal
failure so the card still worked but the driver whined.

Some cleanup patches from Marco Molteni.

Submitted by: Richard Johnson <raj@cisco.com>
Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>
and myself
Various checks: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
Reviewed by: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Approved by: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Warner Losh <imp@freebsd.org>
Obtained from: Linux emulation API's from Aironet driver.


# 83337 11-Sep-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: use standard list width.


# 83336 11-Sep-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: fix markup.


# 83269 10-Sep-2001 brooks

Add support for monitor mode. This means that after enabling the
correct mode via ancontrol, you can use bpf to sniff raw 802.11 frames.
Who want's to port AirSnort. ;-)

Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> (author)
David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> (port to current)


# 81588 13-Aug-2001 ru

Spell "FreeBSD" with "F" and "BSD" in uppercase.


# 79755 15-Jul-2001 dd

Remove whitespace at EOL.


# 79537 10-Jul-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed HISTORY info from the .Os call.


# 75022 30-Mar-2001 jesper

MFC candidate

Change the default mode from ad-hoc to
infrastructure, as noted in

src/share/man/man4/an.4 rev 1.8


# 72126 07-Feb-2001 ru

mdoc(7) police: Change -filled displays (which just happen
to be the same as -ragged in the current implementation) to
-ragged. With mdocNG, -filled displays produce the correct
output, formatted and justified to both margins.


# 70015 14-Dec-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: removed history info from the .Os FreeBSD call.


# 69848 11-Dec-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: reapply rev 1.7 lost in previous commit, clean up a bit.


# 69772 08-Dec-2000 archie

Fixes to the Aironet driver to clear up some WEP issues.
"Security notes" section to the man page added by me.

PR: 23097
Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>


# 68965 20-Nov-2000 ru

mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.


# 68692 13-Nov-2000 wpaul

Close PR# 21843 and PR# 21864. This adds support for WEP and updates some
of the data structures to include new members that weren't defined in the
manual I have.

I opted to use Doug Ambrisko's WEP patches since David Cornejo's patches
did not include the necessary changes to ancontrol(8) to actually enable
and use WEP.

NOTE: I don't currently have access to an Aironet card, so I can't test
any of this. Everything compiles and close scrutiny doesn't reveal any
obvious problems, but Murphy's Law applies. This means I will probably
leave these changes in -current for a bit longer than usual until I'm
sure they work right.


# 67823 28-Oct-2000 joe

Make '-i iface' optional. Assume an0 if it's not otherwise specified.


# 59558 23-Apr-2000 mpp

ancontrol first appeared in FreeBSD 4.0, not 3.0.

Also fix a couple of minor mdoc style things as long as I'm in here.

Submitted by: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com>


# 57695 02-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove more single-space hard sentence breaks.


# 57673 01-Mar-2000 sheldonh

Remove single-space hard sentence breaks. These degrade the quality
of the typeset output, tend to make diffs harder to read and provide
bad examples for new-comers to mdoc.


# 55992 14-Jan-2000 wpaul

Add driver support for the Aironet 4500/4800 series wireless 802.11
NICs. (Finally!) The PCMCIA, ISA and PCI varieties are all supported,
though only the ISA and PCI ones will work on the alpha for now.
PCCARD, ISA and PCI attachments are all provided. Also provided an
ancontrol(8) utility for configuring the NIC, man pages, and updated
pccard.conf.sample. ISA cards are supported in both ISA PnP and hard-wired
mode, although you must configure the kernel explicitly to support the
hardwired mode since you have to know the I/O address and port ahead
of time.

Special thanks to Doug Ambrisko for doing the initial newbus hackery
and getting it to work in infrastructure mode.