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diff --git a/share/man/man4/mtw.4 b/share/man/man4/mtw.4
--- a/share/man/man4/mtw.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/mtw.4
@@ -24,23 +24,45 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd Feb 03, 2025
+.Dd May 3, 2025
.Dt MTW 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
-.Nm if_mtw
-.Nd "Mediatek MT7601U"
-.Ed
+.Nm mtw
+.Nd MediaTek MT7601U USB IEEE 802.11n wireless network driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd device usb
+.Cd device mtw
+.Cd device wlan
+.Pp
+In
+.Xr rc.conf 5 :
+.Cd kld_list="if_mtw"
+.Pp
+In
+.Xr sysctl.conf 5 :
+.Cd hw.usb.mtw.debug=0xffffffff
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-This module provides support for Mediatek MT7601U with the firmware from net/wifi-firmware-mtw-kmod
-
+This module provides support for
+MediaTek MT7601U USB wireless network adapters.
+If the appropriate hardware is detected,
+the driver will be automatically loaded with
+.Xr devmatch 8.
+If driver autoloading is explicitly disabled, enable the module in
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
+The
+.Nm
+driver can be configured at runtime with
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+or at boot with
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Sh HARDWARE
The
.Nm
-driver supports Mediatek MT7601U
-based USB wireless network adapters including (but not all of them tested):
+driver supports MediaTek MT7601U based USB wireless network adapters
+including (but not all of them tested):
.Pp
-.Bl -column -compact
+.Bl -bullet -compact
.It
ASUS USB-N10 v2
.It
@@ -58,17 +80,53 @@
.It
Yealink WF40
.El
-.Sh SEE ALSO
-.Xr usb 4
-.Sh BUGS
+.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
The
.Nm
-only works in station mode and monitor mode. The firmware does not always reinitialize when reloading the module, or when rebooting, without first unplugging the device.
-.Sh History
-The mtw driver first appeared in OpenBSD 7.1. The mtw driver was ported to FreeBSD in FreeBSD 15.0.
+driver supports the following
+.Xr sysctl 8
+variables:
+.Bl -tag -width "hw.usb.mtw.debug"
+.It Va hw.usb.mtw.debug
+Specify debug level as a bitmask.
+Default
+.Ql 0 .
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+The
+.Nm
+driver requires firmware from
+.Pa ports/net/wifi-firmware-mtw-kmod .
+This firmware package will be installed automatically with
+.Xr fwget 8
+if the appropriate hardware is detected at installation or runtime.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr usb 4 ,
+.Xr wlan 4 ,
+.Xr networking 7 ,
+.Xr fwget 8 ,
+.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+driver first appeared in
+.Ox 7.1
+and
+.Fx 15.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
-The mtw driver was written by
+The
+.Nm
+driver was written by
.An James Hastings Aq Mt hastings@openbsd.org
-ported to FreeBSD by
-.An Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen Aq Mt jsm@FreeBSD.org
+and ported to FreeBSD by
+.An Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen Aq Mt jsm@FreeBSD.org .
+.Sh BUGS
+.Nm
+only works in
+.Cm station
+mode and
+.Cm monitor
+mode.
+The firmware does not always reinitialize when reloading the module,
+or when rebooting, without first unplugging the device.

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