wpa_cli man page

[fnoyanisi]

Hi,

I cannot spot the explanation of ping argument that can be passed to wpa_cli() command in the respective man page.

The ping option does exists and is documented in some gnu/linux based OS's man page, but missing in FreeBSD's manual page.

/usr/src % wpa_cli ping  
Selected interface 'wlan0'
PONG

Is there anything that needs to be updated in the documentation of the tool?

PS : I acknowledge that wpa_cli -h | grep ping would yield the usage of ping argument, but I wonder why this is not included in the man page.

 

[cpm@]

fnoyanisi, could you raise this question on the freebsd-doc mailing list?

Thanks in advance!

 

[fnoyanisi]

I ended up editing the wpa_cli.8 troff file, which is included in the head branch, and generating a patch for necessary updates. Current manual page for wpa_cli(8) is rather old -dated 2005- and does not include synopsis for command line options and description of many interactive commands.

Here is the bug report, which also includes a patch for updates
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203406