1.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2007 2.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved. 3.\" Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close@clearchain.com>. 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: head/share/man/man4/wpi.4 289399 2015-10-16 00:38:05Z bdrewery $ 28.\" 29.Dd May 26, 2016 30.Dt WPI 4 31.Os 32.Sh NAME 33.Nm wpi 34.Nd "Intel 3945ABG Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11 driver" 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36To compile this driver into the kernel, 37place the following lines in your 38kernel configuration file: 39.Bd -ragged -offset indent 40.Cd "device wpi" 41.Cd "device wpifw" 42.Cd "device pci" 43.Cd "device wlan" 44.Cd "device wlan_amrr" 45.\".Cd "device firmware" 46.Ed 47.Pp 48Alternatively, to load the driver as a 49module at boot time, place the following line in 50.Xr loader.conf 5 : 51.Bd -literal -offset indent 52if_wpi_load="YES" 53.Ed 54.Sh DESCRIPTION 55The 56.Nm 57driver provides support for the 58.Tn Intel 593945ABG Wireless network adapter. 60.Nm 61supports 62.Cm station , 63.Cm adhoc , 64and 65.Cm monitor 66mode operation. 67Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 68For more information on configuring this device, see 69.Xr ifconfig 8 . 70.Pp 71This driver requires the firmware built with the 72.Nm wpifw 73module to work. 74.Sh FILES 75.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE" -compact 76.It Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_wpi/LICENSE 77.Nm 78firmware license 79.El 80.Sh EXAMPLES 81Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 82.Bd -literal -offset indent 83ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 84 netmask 0xffffff00 85.Ed 86.Pp 87Join a specific BSS network with network name 88.Dq Li my_net : 89.Pp 90.Dl "ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 ssid my_net up" 91.Pp 92Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 93.Bd -literal -offset indent 94ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 ssid my_net \e 95 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 96.Ed 97.Pp 98Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 99.Bd -literal -offset indent 100ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wpi0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 101 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 102.Ed 103.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 104.Bl -diag 105.It "wpi%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 106The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 107.Xr firmware 9 108subsystem. 109Verify the 110.Nm wpifw 111firmware module is installed. 112.It "wpi%d: fatal firmware error" 113An unknown error has occurred in the uploaded firmware, you may have to 114unload/reload the driver to continue. 115.It "wpi%d: Radio transmitter is switched off" 116The hardware switch controlling the radio is currently turned off. 117Data transmission is not possible in this state. 118.El 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr ifmedia 4 , 121.Xr pci 4 , 122.Xr wlan 4 , 123.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 124.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 125.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 126.\".Xr wpifw 4 , 127.Xr ifconfig 8 , 128.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 129.Sh AUTHORS 130.An -nosplit 131The original 132.Nm 133driver was written for 134.Ox 135by 136.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr . 137.An Benjamin Close Aq Mt benjsc@FreeBSD.org 138ported 139.Nm 140to 141.Fx . 142.Sh BUGS 143Not all the error messages are documented here. 144.Pp 145Background scanning is not currently supported. 146