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 March 6, 2007 29.Os 30.Dt IPW 4 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm ipw 33.Nd "Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36place the following lines in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "device ipw" 40.Cd "device pci" 41.Cd "device wlan" 42.Cd "device firmware" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45Alternatively, to load the driver as a 46module at boot time, place the following lines in 47.Xr loader.conf 5 : 48.Bd -literal -offset indent 49if_ipw_load="YES" 50wlan_load="YES" 51firmware_load="YES" 52.Ed 53.Pp 54In both cases, place the following lines in 55.Xr loader.conf 5 56to load the firmware modules: 57.Bd -literal -offset indent 58ipw_bss_load="YES" 59ipw_ibss_load="YES" 60ipw_monitor_load="YES" 61.Ed 62.Sh DESCRIPTION 63The 64.Nm 65driver provides support for the 66.Tn Intel 67PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI network adapter. 68.Pp 69By default, the 70.Nm 71driver configures the adapter for BSS operation (aka infrastructure mode). 72This mode requires the use of an access point. 73.Pp 74For more information on configuring this device, see 75.Xr ifconfig 8 . 76.Pp 77This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 78For the loaded firmware to work the license at 79.Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE 80must be agreed to and the following line be added to 81.Xr loader.conf 5 : 82.Pp 83.Dl "legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1" 84.Sh FILES 85.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE" -compact 86.It Pa /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE 87.Nm 88firmware license 89.El 90.Sh EXAMPLES 91Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 92.Pp 93.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00" 94.Pp 95Join a specific BSS network with network name 96.Dq Li my_net : 97.Pp 98.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net" 99.Pp 100Join a specific BSS network with 40-bit WEP encryption: 101.Bd -literal -offset indent 102ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 103 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 104.Ed 105.Pp 106Join a specific BSS network with 104-bit WEP encryption: 107.Bd -literal -offset indent 108ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 109 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 110.Ed 111.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 112.Bl -diag 113.It "ipw%d: device timeout" 114The driver will reset the hardware. 115This should not happen. 116.It "ipw%d: firmware error" 117The onboard microcontroller crashes for some reason. 118The driver will reset the hardware. 119This should not happen. 120.It "ipw%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 121The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 122This should not happen. 123.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 124The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 125.Xr firmware 9 126subsystem. 127Verify that the necessary firmware modules are loaded and the 128license agreement 129.Xr loader 8 130tunable has been set. 131.It "ipw%d: could not load microcode" 132An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 133This should not happen. 134.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware" 135An attempt to upload the firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 136This should not happen. 137.El 138.Sh SEE ALSO 139.Xr altq 4 , 140.Xr iwi 4 , 141.Xr pci 4 , 142.Xr wlan 4 , 143.Xr wpi 4 , 144.Xr ifconfig 8 145.Sh AUTHORS 146The 147.Nm 148driver was written by 149.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@FreeBSD.org . 150