From 97405be9692c50925304a0ea2606b6f9596d8f9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Remco=20R=C4=B3nders?= Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2023 12:07:08 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Small textual improvements to wpa_supplicant man page MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: Remco Rijnders --- .../doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml | 26 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml b/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml index 9a7d60119..898765c97 100644 --- a/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml +++ b/wpa_supplicant/doc/docbook/wpa_supplicant.sgml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ - 13 September 2022 + 1 February 2023 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Wireless networks do not require physical access to the network equipment - in the same way as wired networks. This makes it easier for unauthorized + in the same way that wired networks do. This makes it easier for unauthorized users to passively monitor a network and capture all transmitted frames. In addition, unauthorized use of the network is much easier. In many cases, this can happen even without user's explicit knowledge since the wireless @@ -42,14 +42,14 @@ Link-layer encryption can be used to provide a layer of security for wireless networks. The original wireless LAN standard, IEEE 802.11, included a simple encryption mechanism, WEP. However, that proved to - be flawed in many areas and network protected with WEP cannot be consider + be flawed in many areas and networks protected with WEP cannot be considered secure. IEEE 802.1X authentication and frequently changed dynamic WEP keys can be used to improve the network security, but even that has inherited security issues due to the use of WEP for encryption. Wi-Fi Protected - Access and IEEE 802.11i amendment to the wireless LAN standard introduce + Access and the IEEE 802.11i amendment to the wireless LAN standard introduce a much improved mechanism for securing wireless networks. IEEE 802.11i - enabled networks that are using CCMP (encryption mechanism based on strong - cryptographic algorithm AES) can finally be called secure used for + enabled networks that are using CCMP (an encryption mechanism based on the strong + cryptographic algorithm AES) can finally be called secure and used for applications which require efficient protection against unauthorized access. @@ -70,13 +70,13 @@ wpa_supplicant. Before wpa_supplicant can do its work, the network interface - must be available. That means that the physical device must be + must be available. That means that the physical device must be present and enabled, and the driver for the device must be loaded. The daemon will exit immediately if the device is not already available. After wpa_supplicant has configured the - network device, higher level configuration such as DHCP may + network device, higher level configuration of the device, such as DHCP, may proceed. There are a variety of ways to integrate wpa_supplicant into a machine's networking scripts, a few of which are described in sections below. @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ wpa_supplicant requests the kernel - driver to scan neighboring BSSes + driver to scan neighboring BSSes (Basic Service Set) @@ -520,10 +520,10 @@ wpa_supplicant -B -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -iwlan0 - This makes the process fork into background. + This makes the process fork into the background. - The easiest way to debug problems, and to get debug log for - bug reports, is to start wpa_supplicant on + The easiest way to debug problems, and to get a debug log for + bug reports, is to start wpa_supplicant in the foreground with debugging enabled:
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B Interface to pcmcia-cs/cardmrg - For example, following small changes to pcmcia-cs scripts + For example, the following small changes to pcmcia-cs scripts can be used to enable WPA support: Add MODE="Managed" and WPA="y" to the network scheme in