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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $FreeBSD: head/share/man/man4/iwm.4 286441 2015-08-08 06:06:48Z rpaulo $ 27.\" 28.Dd September 18, 2015 29.Dt IWM 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwm 33.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36include the following lines in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "device iwm" 40.Cd "device pci" 41.Cd "device wlan" 42.Cd "device firmware" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45You also need to select a firmware for your device. 46.\"Choose one from: 47.\".Bd -ragged -offset indent 48.\".Cd "device iwm3160fw" 49.\".Cd "device iwm7260fw" 50.\".Cd "device iwm7265fw" 51.\".Ed 52.\".Pp 53.\"Or you can use 54Use 55.Bd -ragged -offset indent 56.Cd "device iwmfw" 57.Ed 58.Pp 59to include them all. 60.Pp 61Alternatively, to load the driver as a 62module at boot time, place the following lines in 63.Xr loader.conf 5 : 64.Bd -literal -offset indent 65if_iwm_load="YES" 66iwm3160fw_load="YES" 67iwm7260fw_load="YES" 68iwm7265fw_load="YES" 69.Ed 70.Sh DESCRIPTION 71The 72.Nm 73driver provides support for: 74.Pp 75.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 76.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 77.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 78.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 79.El 80.Pp 81.Nm 82supports 83.Cm station 84mode operation. 85Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 86For more information on configuring this device, see 87.Xr ifconfig 8 . 88.Pp 89This driver requires the firmware built with the 90.Nm iwmfw 91module to work. 92.Sh EXAMPLES 93Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 94.Bd -literal -offset indent 95ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 96 netmask 0xffffff00 97.Ed 98.Pp 99Join a specific BSS network with network name 100.Dq Li my_net : 101.Pp 102.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up" 103.Pp 104Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 105.Bd -literal -offset indent 106ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \e 107 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 108.Ed 109.Pp 110Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 111.Bd -literal -offset indent 112ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 113 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 114.Ed 115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 116.Bl -diag 117.It "iwm%d: device timeout" 118The driver will reset the hardware. 119This should not happen. 120.It "iwm%d: firmware error" 121The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 122The driver will reset the hardware. 123This should not happen. 124.It "iwm%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 125The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 126This should not happen. 127.It "iwm%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 128The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 129.Xr firmware 9 130subsystem. 131Verify the 132.Xr iwmfw 4 133firmware module is present. 134.It "iwm%d: could not load boot firmware" 135An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 136failed. 137This should not happen. 138.It "iwm%d: could not load microcode" 139An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 140This should not happen. 141.It "iwm%d: could not load main firmware" 142An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 143failed. 144This should not happen. 145.El 146.Sh SEE ALSO 147.Xr iwmfw 4 , 148.Xr pci 4 , 149.Xr wlan 4 , 150.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 151.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 152.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 153.Xr ifconfig 8 , 154.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 155