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 July 28, 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.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.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 install the 70.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod 71port before 72.Xr ifconfig 8 73will work. 74.Sh EXAMPLES 75Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 76.Pp 77.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00" 78.Pp 79Join a specific BSS network with network name 80.Dq Li my_net : 81.Pp 82.Dl "ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net" 83.Pp 84Join a specific BSS network with 40-bit WEP encryption: 85.Bd -literal -offset indent 86ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 87 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 88.Ed 89.Pp 90Join a specific BSS network with 104-bit WEP encryption: 91.Bd -literal -offset indent 92ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \e 93 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 94.Ed 95.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 96.Bl -diag 97.It "ipw%d: device timeout" 98The driver will reset the hardware. 99This should not happen. 100.It "ipw%d: firmware error" 101The onboard microcontroller crashes for some reason. 102The driver will reset the hardware. 103This should not happen. 104.It "ipw%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 105The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 106This should not happen. 107.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 108The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 109.Xr firmware 9 110subsystem. 111Verify that the 112.Pa ports/net/ipw-firmware-kmod 113port is installed correctly. 114.It "ipw%d: could not load microcode" 115An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 116This should not happen. 117.It "ipw%d: could not load firmware" 118An attempt to upload the firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 119This should not happen. 120.El 121.Sh SEE ALSO 122.Xr an 4 , 123.Xr ath 4 , 124.Xr iwi 4 , 125.Xr pci 4 , 126.Xr wi 4 , 127.Xr wlan 4 , 128.Xr ifconfig 8 129.Rs 130.%T The IPW Web Page 131.%O http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ 132.Re 133.Sh AUTHORS 134The 135.Nm 136driver was written by 137.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien@FreeBSD.org . 138