1.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2006 2.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice unmodified, this list of conditions, and the following 9.\" disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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/iwn.4 248507 2013-03-19 13:43:55Z glebius $ 27.\" 28.Dd November 23, 2013 29.Dt IWN 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwn 33.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11n 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 iwn" 40.Cd "device iwnfw" 41.Cd "device pci" 42.Cd "device wlan" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45.\"You also need to select a firmware for your device. 46.\"Choose one from: 47.\".Bd -ragged -offset indent 48.\".Cd "device iwn4965fw" 49.\".Cd "device iwn1000fw" 50.\".Cd "device iwn5000fw" 51.\".Cd "device iwn5150fw" 52.\".Cd "device iwn6000fw" 53.\".Cd "device iwn6000g2afw" 54.\".Cd "device iwn6000g2bfw" 55.\".Cd "device iwn6050fw" 56.\".Ed 57.\".Pp 58Or you can use 59.Bd -ragged -offset indent 60.Cd "device iwnfw" 61.Ed 62.Pp 63to include them all. 64.Pp 65Alternatively, to load the driver as a 66module at boot time, place the following lines in 67.Xr loader.conf 5 : 68.Bd -literal -offset indent 69if_iwn_load="YES" 70iwn4965fw_load="YES" 71iwn1000fw_load="YES" 72iwn5000fw_load="YES" 73iwn5150fw_load="YES" 74iwn6000fw_load="YES" 75iwn6000g2afw_load="YES" 76iwn6000g2bfw_load="YES" 77iwn6050fw_load="YES" 78.Ed 79.Sh DESCRIPTION 80The 81.Nm 82driver provides support for: 83.Pp 84.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 85.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 86.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 87.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 88.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 89.It Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 90.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100 91.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 130 92.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 93.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 94.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 95.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 96.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 4965 97.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 5100 98.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6150 99.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6200 100.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6250 101.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6250 102.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 103.It Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 104.It Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965 105.It Intel WiFi Link 5100 106.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 107.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 108.El 109.Pp 110.Nm 111supports 112.Cm station 113and 114.Cm monitor 115mode operation. 116Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 117For more information on configuring this device, see 118.Xr ifconfig 8 . 119.Pp 120This driver requires the firmware built with the 121.Nm iwnfw 122module to work. 123.Sh EXAMPLES 124Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 125.Bd -literal -offset indent 126ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 127 netmask 0xffffff00 128.Ed 129.Pp 130Join a specific BSS network with network name 131.Dq Li my_net : 132.Pp 133.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net up" 134.Pp 135Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 136.Bd -literal -offset indent 137ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net \e 138 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 139.Ed 140.Pp 141Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 142.Bd -literal -offset indent 143ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 144 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 145.Ed 146.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 147.Bl -diag 148.It "iwn%d: device timeout" 149The driver will reset the hardware. 150This should not happen. 151.It "iwn%d: firmware error" 152The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 153The driver will reset the hardware. 154This should not happen. 155.It "iwn%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 156The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 157This should not happen. 158.It "iwn%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 159The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 160.Xr firmware 9 161subsystem. 162Verify the 163.Xr iwnfw 4 164firmware module is present. 165.It "iwn%d: could not load boot firmware" 166An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 167failed. 168This should not happen. 169.It "iwn%d: could not load microcode" 170An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 171This should not happen. 172.It "iwn%d: could not load main firmware" 173An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 174failed. 175This should not happen. 176.El 177.Sh SEE ALSO 178.Xr ifmedia 4 , 179.Xr iwnfw 4 , 180.Xr pci 4 , 181.Xr wlan 4 , 182.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 183.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 184.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 185.Xr ifconfig 8 , 186.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 187.Sh AUTHORS 188The original 189.Nm 190driver was written by 191.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr . 192