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Date:      Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:26:46 GMT
From:      Dan Olson <danolson@visi.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   docs/121545: Update Handbook Section 29.3 to include wlan_scan_sta
Message-ID:  <200803092026.m29KQkhD056503@www.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <200803092030.m29KU3ch011892@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         121545
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Update Handbook Section 29.3 to include wlan_scan_sta
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Mar 09 20:30:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Dan Olson
>Release:        7.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD newton.danolson.dsl.visi.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Sat Mar  1 10:33:11 CST 2008     root@newton.danolson.dsl.visi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWTON  i386

>Description:
While reading and trying out the Handbook section 29.3, Wireless Networking, I found that a kernel module is missing.

In section 29.3.3.1.1 it has one run the command 'ifconfig ath0 up scan'  but this will not work without the kernel module wlan_scan_sta.ko loaded.

Also in section 29.3.3.1.3.1 the same module is needed to run the 'wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' command.

This is similar to PR docs/120456 but that relates to adding this information to the ath man page.
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>Fix:


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