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 .fi
 ..
 
-.TH wmiistatus 1 "OCTOBER 2008" Linux "User Manuals"
+.TH wmiistatus 1 "FEBRUARY 2009" Linux "User Manuals"
 
 .SH NAME
 wmiistatus \- fill wmii's status bar
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ wmiistatus \- fill wmii's status bar
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 
 .B wmiistatus
-is a small program for filling wmii's status bar via its 9P pseudo filesystem. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of systemcalls (as the bar should be updated every second or at your specified interval).
+is a small program (around 500 SLOC) for filling wmii's status bar via its 9P pseudo filesystem. It is designed to be very efficient by issuing a very small number of systemcalls (as the bar should be updated every second or at your specified interval).
 
 .SH CONFIGURATION
 .TP
@@ -55,9 +55,13 @@ Followed by a comma separated list of the modules (run, wlan, eth, battery, load
 .B color
 If specified, color mode is on. This affects WLAN which will be displayed red if WLAN is down and the run_watch system which will display the status in red/green.
 
+.TP
+.B get_ethspeed
+Get current speed of the ethernet interface using the same mechanism as ethtool. You need to start wmiistatus with root privileges to use this.
+
 .TP
 .B normcolors
-Specifies the colors for background/border in the same format (html colorcodes) as wmii's configuration, that is #222222 #333333 for example.
+Specifies the colors for background/border in the same format (html colorcodes) as wmii's configuration (just the last two values), that is #222222 #333333 for example. Text color will be determined automatically (red/green/#888888), depending on context.
 
 .TP
 .B interval
@@ -84,12 +88,17 @@ System-wide configuration file.
 .Ve
 
 .SH MOUNTING WMII'S PSEUDO FILESYSTEM
-As of now (October 2008, Linux 2.6.27) you can mount wmii's 9P pseudo filesystem using:
+As of now (February 2009, Linux 2.6.28) you can mount wmii's 9P pseudo filesystem using:
 .PP
-.Vb 1
+.Vb 3
 mount -t 9p -o rw,trans=unix,uname=michael,dfltuid=1000,dfltgid=50,name=michael,noauto,noextend /tmp/ns.michael.:0/wmii /mnt/wmii 
+# Perhaps you need to load module 9pnet_fd if that does not work
+modprobe 9pnet_fd
 .Ve
 
+.SH BUGS
+Sometimes, wmiistatus crashes when the wlan interface vanishes (killswitch). I haven't yet found the bug, as it is not reproducible. If you can reproduce this, please fix it and send me a patch.
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR strftime (3),
 .BR date (1),
@@ -97,3 +106,6 @@ mount -t 9p -o rw,trans=unix,uname=michael,dfltuid=1000,dfltgid=50,name=michael,
 
 .SH AUTHOR
 Michael Stapelberg <michael+wmiistatus at stapelberg dot de>
+
+.SH WEBSITE
+See http://michael.stapelberg.de/wmiistatus for the newest release.