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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2003-11-17 20:22:45 +0000
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2003-11-17 20:22:45 +0000
commit322b6bc8e6bf7e3f4631e995afc6122a6c45a1e4 (patch)
tree43039cca3d66cc271924ecad8c1fec0f610ae6a7 /man
parent525e8bcb518f643e9dd6a4f6af7aa064cd8ff497 (diff)
documenation fixes
git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/waproamd/trunk@50 022f378f-78c4-0310-b860-d162c87e6274
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-rw-r--r--man/waproamd.8.xml.in18
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/waproamd.8.xml.in b/man/waproamd.8.xml.in
index 8fba513..ed56b1c 100644
--- a/man/waproamd.8.xml.in
+++ b/man/waproamd.8.xml.in
@@ -37,12 +37,15 @@
<p>As long as the local NIC is not associated to any wireless
network waproamd scans iteratively for them. If one is detected, a
script in <file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/</file> named after
- the MAC address of the access point is called. If this script is
- not existent, <file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/default</file>
- is called instead. The first argument to this script is
- "start". If the association is lost, the same script is run with
- the argument "stop". While the NIC is associated no scans are
- issued.</p>
+ the MAC address of the access point is called. (First lowercase,
+ than uppercase is checked) If a script like this is not found a
+ script named <tt>essid:&lt;ESSID&gt;</tt> in the same directory is
+ used. Special characters are escape in an HTTP URL like
+ fashion. If this script is not existent,
+ <file>@sysconfdir@/waproamd/scripts/default</file> is called
+ instead. The first argument to this script is "start". If the
+ association is lost, the same script is run with the argument
+ "stop". While the NIC is associated no scans are issued.</p>
<p>waproamd is intended to be used together with ifplugd. Whenever
an association succeeds, ifplugd detects it and runs further
@@ -59,6 +62,9 @@
subsystem, waproamd may use it to improve latency behaviour. It is
not required, however.</p>
+ <p>waproamd supports the host_roaming ioctl() defined by the
+ hostap driver.</p>
+
</description>
<options>