>Number: 177106 >Category: misc >Synopsis: [patch] fix the manpage as iwn does not support adhoc mode >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Mar 19 13:20:01 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Hiren Panchasara >Release: current >Organization: >Environment: 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r247409M >Description: sbruno@ and I were tinkering with iwn found out that it does not support adhoc mode:
# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Operation not supported dmesg shows: iwn0: IBSS mode not supported Which seems correct looking at the code from $src/sys/dev/iwn/if_iwn.c: 584 #if 0 585 | IEEE80211_C_IBSS /* ibss/adhoc mode */ 586 #endif Here is the patch to reflect that in man page. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Index: share/man/man4/iwn.4 =================================================================== --- share/man/man4/iwn.4 (revision 248448) +++ share/man/man4/iwn.4 (working copy) @@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ .Nm supports .Cm station , -.Cm adhoc , and .Cm monitor mode operation. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
