1.\" Copyright (c) 2004 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 July 16, 2005 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 support for the 36.Xr ipw 4 37driver into your kernel, place the following lines in your 38kernel configuration file: 39.Bd -ragged -offset indent 40.Cd "device ipw" 41.Cd "device pci" 42.Cd "device wlan" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45Alternatively, to load the 46.Xr ipw 4 47driver at boot time, place the following lines in 48.Xr loader.conf 5 : 49.Bd -literal -offset indent 50if_ipw_load="YES" 51wlan_load="YES" 52.Ed 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54The 55.Nm 56driver provides support for the 57.Tn Intel 58PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI network adapter. 59.Pp 60By default, the 61.Nm 62driver configures the adapter for BSS operation (aka infrastructure mode). 63This mode requires the use of an access point. 64.Pp 65For more information on configuring this device, see 66.Xr ifconfig 8 . 67.Pp 68This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 69You need to obtain 70.Xr ipwcontrol 8 71from the IPW web page listed below to accomplish loading the firmware 72before 73.Xr ifconfig 8 74will work. 75.Sh EXAMPLES 76Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 77.Pp 78.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00" 79.Pp 80Join a specific BSS network with network name 81.Dq Li my_net : 82.Pp 83.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net" 84.Pp 85Join a specific BSS network with 40-bit WEP encryption: 86.Bd -literal -offset indent 87ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 88 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 89.Ed 90.Pp 91Join a specific BSS network with 104-bit WEP encryption: 92.Bd -literal -offset indent 93ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 94 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 95.Ed 96.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 97.Bl -diag 98.It "ipw%d: device timeout" 99The driver will reset the hardware. 100This should not happen. 101.It "ipw%d: Please load firmware" 102The required firmware has not been loaded into the card, and therefore 103the card cannot operate. 104Load the firmware with 105.Xr ipwcontrol 8 106before proceeding. 107.El 108.Sh SEE ALSO 109.Xr an 4 , 110.Xr ath 4 , 111.Xr iwi 4 , 112.Xr pci 4 , 113.Xr wi 4 , 114.Xr wlan 4 , 115.Xr ifconfig 8 , 116.Xr ipwcontrol 8 , 117.Xr wicontrol 8 118.Rs 119.%T The IPW Web Page 120.%O http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ 121.Re 122.Sh AUTHORS 123The 124.Nm 125driver was written by 126.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@FreeBSD.org . 127