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Clarify that athn(4) USB devices don't support power saving in hostap…
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Prompted by a report from martingot on bugs@
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stspdotname committed May 6, 2021
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.\" $OpenBSD: athn.4,v 1.40 2020/07/13 16:35:52 stsp Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: athn.4,v 1.41 2021/05/06 14:40:35 stsp Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>.
.\"
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.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
.\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
.\"
.Dd $Mdocdate: July 13 2020 $
.Dd $Mdocdate: May 6 2021 $
.Dt ATHN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
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which can be enabled via
.Xr ifconfig 8 .
In Host AP mode,
the driver is compatible with clients using powersave.
the driver is compatible with clients using powersave, except on AR7010
and AR9287 USB devices.
.Pp
The
.Nm
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.Xr ieee80211 9
before those features can be supported.
.Pp
On USB devices, the firmware limits Host AP mode to 7 concurrent clients.
On USB devices, Host AP mode is limited to 7 concurrent clients and does
not support power saving.
Clients attempting to use power saving mode may experience significant
packet loss.

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