Subject: Re: latest ath/net80211 from freebsd (9 June 2005 update)
To: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 06/11/2005 10:55:57 
In message <42AB224E.6030402@2005.smokva.net>Petar Bogdanovic writes

>I thought, that wiconfig(8) was especially made for wi(4)- and 
>awi(4)-devices.

It was, once upon a time. But then the underlying kernel machinery got
replaced with the 802.11 framework, the ioctls got revamped, and now
wiconfig works with other devices like ath(4), too.

laptop# wiconfig ath0 -D
scanning ......
AP Information
ap[0]:
        netname (SSID):                 [ NETGEAR ]
        BSSID:                          [ 00:09:5b:st:uv:wx:yz ]
        Channel:                        [ 11 ]
        Quality/Signal/Noise [signal]:  [ 0 / 10 / 0 ]
                                [dBm]:  [ 0 / -139 / -149 ]
        BSS Beacon Interval [msec]:     [ 100 ]
        Capinfo:                        [ ESS ]
        DataRate [Mbps]:                [ 11 ]


>At least, the man-page says so:

I guess the manpage didn't get updated.