summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/man/wifibox-alpine.5
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'man/wifibox-alpine.5')
-rw-r--r--man/wifibox-alpine.516
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/wifibox-alpine.5 b/man/wifibox-alpine.5
index ee5cb64..f77311b 100644
--- a/man/wifibox-alpine.5
+++ b/man/wifibox-alpine.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.Dd May 31, 2022
+.Dd June 16, 2022
.Dt WIFIBOX-ALPINE 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ Further components of the guest that are not directly configurable or
visible to the outside:
.Bl -bullet
.It
+Version 5.15 (LTS) of the Linux kernel and its wireless drivers are
+used to communicate with exposed hardware. It does not always work
+with the latest ones, see the section on supported hardware for the
+exact details.
+.It
.Sy busybox
is a combination of tiny versions of the common UNIX utilities,
including the
@@ -436,7 +441,7 @@ for activation.
.It MediaTek MT7630E
.It MediaTek MT7663
.It MediaTek MT7915
-.It MediaTek MT7921
+.It MediaTek MT7921 (AMD RZ608 Wi-Fi 6E)
.It Qualcomm Atheros AR2413
.It Qualcomm Atheros AR2414
.It Qualcomm Atheros AR2415
@@ -519,6 +524,13 @@ for activation.
.It Texas Instruments WL1271/3
.It Texas Instruments WL1281/3
.El
+.Sh CAVEATS
+Certain vendors may assign different PCI IDs for their rebranded
+products even if they ship exactly the same chipset. For example, AMD
+RZ608 is technically the same as MediaTek MT7921, but its PCI ID had
+to be explictly added for the corresponding driver to make it work.
+Similar situations may occur any time, please let us know if this
+happens.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr wifibox 8 ,
.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 ,