1.\" 2.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2006 3.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice unmodified, this list of conditions, and the following 10.\" disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 15.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 16.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 17.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 18.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 19.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 20.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 21.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 22.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 23.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 24.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 25.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 26.\" 27.\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man4/iwi.4,v 1.22 2010/04/14 19:08:06 uqs Exp $ 28.\" 29.Dd July 18, 2010 30.Dt IWI 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm iwi 34.Nd "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 driver" 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36To compile this driver into the kernel, 37include the following lines in your 38kernel configuration file: 39.Bd -ragged -offset indent 40.Cd "device iwi" 41.Cd "device iwifw" 42.Cd "device pci" 43.Cd "device wlan" 44.Ed 45.Pp 46Alternatively, to load the driver as a 47module at boot time, place the following line in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50if_iwi_load="YES" 51.Ed 52.Pp 53In both cases, place the following line in 54.Xr loader.conf 5 55to acknowledge the firmware license (see below): 56.Bd -literal -offset indent 57legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1 58.Ed 59.Sh DESCRIPTION 60The 61.Nm 62driver provides support for 63.Tn Intel 64PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2915ABG MiniPCI and 2225BG PCI network adapters. 65.Nm 66supports 67.Cm station , 68.Cm adhoc , 69and 70.Cm monitor 71mode operation. 72Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 73For more information on configuring this device, see 74.Xr ifconfig 8 . 75.Pp 76This driver requires the firmware built with the 77.Nm iwifw 78module to work. 79For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at 80.Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE 81must be agreed to by adding the following line to 82.Xr loader.conf 5 : 83.Pp 84.Dl "legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1" 85.Sh FILES 86.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE" -compact 87.It Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi/LICENSE 88.Nm 89firmware license 90.El 91.Sh EXAMPLES 92Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 93.Bd -literal -offset indent 94ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 95 netmask 0xffffff00 96.Ed 97.Pp 98Join a specific BSS network with network name 99.Dq Li my_net : 100.Pp 101.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 ssid my_net up" 102.Pp 103Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 104.Bd -literal -offset indent 105ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 ssid my_net \e 106 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 107.Ed 108.Pp 109Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 110.Bd -literal -offset indent 111ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 112 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 113.Ed 114.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 115.Bl -diag 116.It "iwi%d: device timeout" 117The driver will reset the hardware. 118This should not happen. 119.It "iwi%d: firmware error" 120The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 121The driver will reset the hardware. 122This should not happen. 123.It "iwi%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 124The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 125This should not happen. 126.It "iwi%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 127The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 128.Xr firmware 9 129subsystem. 130Verify the 131.Xr iwifw 4 132firmware module is installed and the license agreement 133.Xr loader 8 134tunable has been set. 135.It "iwi%d: could not load boot firmware" 136An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 137failed. 138This should not happen. 139.It "iwi%d: could not load microcode" 140An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 141This should not happen. 142.It "iwi%d: could not load main firmware" 143An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 144failed. 145This should not happen. 146.El 147.Sh SEE ALSO 148.Xr ifmedia 4 , 149.Xr iwifw 4 , 150.Xr pci 4 , 151.Xr wlan 4 , 152.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 153.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 154.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 155.Xr ifconfig 8 , 156.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 157.Sh AUTHORS 158The original 159.Nm 160driver was written by 161.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr . 162