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.\" $FreeBSD$ 27.\" 28.Dd April 13, 2008 29.Os 30.Dt IWI 4 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwi 33.Nd "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG IEEE 802.11 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 iwi" 40.Cd "device iwifw" 41.Cd "device pci" 42.Cd "device wlan" 43.Cd "device firmware" 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 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.Pp 94.Bd -literal -offset indent 95ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0 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 iwi0 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 iwi0 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 iwi0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 113 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 114.Ed 115.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 116.Bl -diag 117.It "iwi%d: device timeout" 118The driver will reset the hardware. 119This should not happen. 120.It "iwi%d: firmware error" 121The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 122The driver will reset the hardware. 123This should not happen. 124.It "iwi%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 125The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 126This should not happen. 127.It "iwi%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 iwifw 4 133firmware module is installed and the license agreement 134.Xr loader 8 135tunable has been set. 136.It "iwi%d: could not load boot firmware" 137An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 138failed. 139This should not happen. 140.It "iwi%d: could not load microcode" 141An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 142This should not happen. 143.It "iwi%d: could not load main firmware" 144An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 145failed. 146This should not happen. 147.El 148.Sh SEE ALSO 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 damien.bergamini@free.fr 162