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26.Dd April 13, 2008
27.Dt WLAN_AMRR 4
28.Os
29.Sh NAME
30.Nm wlan_amrr
31.Nd AMRR rate adaptation algorithm support for 802.11 devices
32.Sh SYNOPSIS
33.Cd "device wlan_amrr"
34.Sh DESCRIPTION
35The
36.Nm
37module implements the Adaptive Multi-Rate Retry tx rate control
38algorithm for use by 802.11 device drivers.
39.Sh SEE ALSO
40.Xr bwi 4 ,
41.Xr iwn 4 ,
42.Xr ral 4 ,
43.Xr rum 4 ,
44.Xr ural 4 ,
45.Xr wlan 4 ,
46.Xr wpi 4 ,
47.Xr zyd 4
48.Sh STANDARDS
49More information can be found in the paper describing the
50.Em AMRR
51algorithm at
52.Pa http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00070784/en/ .
53.Sh HISTORY
54The
55.Nm
56driver first appeared in
57.Fx 6.0 .
58