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 16, 2006 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.Ed 43.Pp 44Alternatively, to load the driver as a 45module at boot time, place the following lines in 46.Xr loader.conf 5 : 47.Bd -literal -offset indent 48if_ipw_load="YES" 49wlan_load="YES" 50.Ed 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Nm 54driver provides support for the 55.Tn Intel 56PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI network adapter. 57.Pp 58By default, the 59.Nm 60driver configures the adapter for BSS operation (aka infrastructure mode). 61This mode requires the use of an access point. 62.Pp 63For more information on configuring this device, see 64.Xr ifconfig 8 . 65.Pp 66This driver requires firmware to be loaded before it will work. 67You need to install the 68.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod 69port before 70.Xr ifconfig 8 71will work. 72.Sh EXAMPLES 73Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 74.Pp 75.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00" 76.Pp 77Join a specific BSS network with network name 78.Dq Li my_net : 79.Pp 80.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net" 81.Pp 82Join a specific BSS network with 40-bit WEP encryption: 83.Bd -literal -offset indent 84ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 85 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 86.Ed 87.Pp 88Join a specific BSS network with 104-bit WEP encryption: 89.Bd -literal -offset indent 90ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 91 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 92.Ed 93.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 94.Bl -diag 95.It "ipw%d: device timeout" 96The driver will reset the hardware. 97This should not happen. 98.It "ipw%d: firmware error" 99The onboard microcontroller crashes for some reason. 100The driver will reset the hardware. 101This should not happen. 102.It "ipw%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 103The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 104This should not happen. 105.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 106The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 107.Xr firmware 9 108subsystem. 109Verify that the 110.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware 111port is installed correctly. 112.It "ipw%d: could not load microcode" 113An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 114This should not happen. 115.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware" 116An attempt to upload the firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 117This should not happen. 118.El 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr an 4 , 121.Xr ath 4 , 122.Xr iwi 4 , 123.Xr pci 4 , 124.Xr wi 4 , 125.Xr wlan 4 , 126.Xr ifconfig 8 127.Rs 128.%T The IPW Web Page 129.%O http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ 130.Re 131.Sh AUTHORS 132The 133.Nm 134driver was written by 135.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@FreeBSD.org . 136