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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man4/an.4 b/static/openbsd/man4/an.4 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..46a6b0ed --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man4/an.4 @@ -0,0 +1,190 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: an.4,v 1.46 2021/10/24 12:32:42 kn Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 +.\" Bill Paul <wpaul@ee.columbia.edu>. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software +.\" must display the following acknowledgement: +.\" This product includes software developed by Bill Paul. +.\" 4. Neither the name of the author nor the names of any co-contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY Bill Paul AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL Bill Paul OR THE VOICES IN HIS HEAD +.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR +.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF +.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS +.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN +.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) +.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF +.\" THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/an.4,v 1.5 2000/03/02 14:53:45 sheldonh Exp $ +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 24 2021 $ +.Dt AN 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm an +.Nd Aironet Communications 4500/4800 IEEE 802.11FH/b wireless network device +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Cd "an* at pcmcia?" +.Cd "an* at pci?" +.Cd "an* at isapnp?" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the Aironet Communications 4500, 4800 +(aka Cisco 340), and Cisco 350 +IEEE 802.11 wireless network adapters. +This includes the ISA, PCI, and PCMCIA varieties. +The 4500 series adapters operate at 1 and 2Mbps (FH) while +the 4800 and 350 series can operate at 1, 2, 5.5, and 11Mbps (DS). +The ISA, PCI, +and PCMCIA devices are all based on the same core PCMCIA modules +and all have the same programming interface. +However, unlike the +Lucent WaveLAN/IEEE cards, the ISA and PCI cards appear to the +host as normal ISA and PCI devices and do not require any PCMCIA +support. +.Pp +ISA cards can either be configured to use ISA Plug and Play +or to use a particular I/O address and IRQ +by properly setting the DIP switches on the board. +(The default switch setting is for plug and play.) +The +.Nm +driver has Plug and Play support and will work in either configuration, +however when using a hard-wired I/O address and IRQ, the driver +configuration and the NIC's switch settings must agree. +PCI cards +require no switch settings of any kind and will be automatically +probed and attached. +.Pp +All host/device interaction with the Aironet cards is via programmed I/O. +The +.Nm +driver encapsulates all IP and ARP traffic as 802.11 frames, though +it can receive either 802.11 or 802.3 frames. +.Pp +These are the modes the +.Nm +driver can operate in: +.Bl -tag -width "IBSS-masterXX" +.It BSS mode +Also known as +.Em infrastructure +mode, this is used when associating with an access point, through +which all traffic passes. +This mode is the default. +.It IBSS mode +Also known as +.Em IEEE ad-hoc +mode or +.Em peer-to-peer +mode. +This is the standardized method of operating without an access point. +Stations associate with a service set. +However, actual connections between stations are peer-to-peer. +.It monitor mode +In this mode the driver is able to receive packets without +associating with an access point. +This disables the internal receive filter and enables the card to +capture packets from networks which it wouldn't normally have access to, +or to scan for access points. +.El +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured to use hardware +Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). +It is strongly recommended that WEP +not be used as the sole mechanism +to secure wireless communication, +due to serious weaknesses in it. +.Pp +In BSS mode, +the driver supports powersave mode, +which can be enabled via +.Xr ifconfig 8 . +.Pp +The +.Nm +driver can be configured at runtime with +.Xr ifconfig 8 +or on boot with +.Xr hostname.if 5 . +.Sh EXAMPLES +The following +.Xr hostname.if 5 +example configures an0 to join network +.Dq mynwid , +using WEP key +.Dq mywepkey , +obtaining an IP address using DHCP: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +join mynwid nwkey mywepkey +inet autoconf +.Ed +.Sh DIAGNOSTICS +.Bl -diag +.It "an0: failed to allocate N bytes on NIC" +The driver was unable to allocate memory for transmit frames in the +NIC's on-board RAM. +.It "an0: device timeout" +The Aironet card failed to generate an interrupt to acknowledge a transmit +command. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr arp 4 , +.Xr ifmedia 4 , +.Xr intro 4 , +.Xr isapnp 4 , +.Xr netintro 4 , +.Xr pci 4 , +.Xr pcmcia 4 , +.Xr hostname.if 5 , +.Xr ifconfig 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +device driver first appeared in +.Fx 4.0 . +.Ox +support was added in +.Ox 2.7 . +A version of the driver based on the one in +.Nx +was added in +.Ox 3.9 . +.Sh AUTHORS +.An -nosplit +The +.Nm +driver was written by +.An Bill Paul Aq Mt wpaul@ee.columbia.edu +and ported to +.Ox +by +.An Michael Shalayeff Aq Mt mickey@openbsd.org . +Later the +.Nx +version of the driver by +.An Atsushi Onoe +was subsequently ported to +.Ox +by +.An Jonathan Gray Aq Mt jsg@openbsd.org . +.Sh CAVEATS +Scanning for access points is not currently supported. |
