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Add a few clarifications to this man page. Also, add a table that

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describes the minimum versions of each feature and each chipset type
supported by this driver.  Basically, unless you have a very modern
version of firmware on a Prism card, you won't be able to use these
cards for much on modern networks that have any kind of protection
enabled, except for the few WEP-only stranglers that appear at some
conferences...
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@ -347,6 +347,24 @@ older versions of station firmware.
.Pp
Lucent cards prior to firmware version 6.0.6 do not implement IBSS
mode and are not supported.
.Pp
Prior versions of
.Nm
supported Symbol firmware.
That support has been removed due to persistent problems with this
firmware as well as getting proper documentation on this firmware.
.Pp
Hermes 2 and Hermes 3 chips are not supported by this driver.
.Pp
Here's the above requirements in the form of a table
.Pp
.Bl -column -compact "Prims II/2.5" "xxxxxxxx" "xxxxxxxx" "xxxxxxxx" "xxxxxxxx"
.Em "Firmware Minimum WPA Host AP Adhoc/IBSS"
Prism II/2.5 0.8.0 1.7.0 1.3.4 1.3.1
Prism 3 0.8.0 1.7.0 1.4.9 1.3.1
Hermes 6.0.6 none none 6.0.6
Symbol none none none none
.El
.Sh BUGS
Not all the new messages are documented here, and many of them are
indications of transient errors that are not indications of serious