1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2021 The FreeBSD Foundation 3.\" 4.\" This documentation was written by Bj\xc3\xb6rn Zeeb under sponsorship from 5.\" the FreeBSD Foundation. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd January 1, 2022 31.Dt iwlwifi 4 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm iwlwifi 35.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax wireless network driver 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in 38.Xr rc.conf 5 : 39.Bd -literal -offset indent 40kld_list="${kld_list} if_iwlwifi" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43The driver should automatically load any 44.Xr iwlwififw 4 45firmware needed for the particular chipset in that case. 46.Pp 47It is anticipated that the driver will support auto-loading via 48.Xr devmatch 8 49in the future and will need no configuration at all. 50.Pp 51It is discouraged to load the driver from 52.Xr loader 8 . 53.Sh DESCRIPTION 54The 55.Nm 56driver is derived from Intel's Linux iwlwifi driver and provides support for 57all chipsets supported by the 58.Em mvm 59part of that driver. 60.\" XXX-BZ find way to add full list of chipsets automatically 61.Nm 62will be a successor to 63.Xr iwm 4 64and may superseed that driver in the future. 65It still complements the 66.Xr iwn 4 67driver which supports older chipsets. 68.Pp 69The driver uses the 70.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. 71.Em linuxkpi_wlan 72and 73.Em linuxkpi 74compat framework to bridge between the Linux and 75native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native 76.Xr net80211 4 77wireless stack. 78.Pp 79While 80.Nm 81supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax 82the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. 83Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned. 84.Sh BUGS 85Certainly. 86.Sh SEE ALSO 87.Xr iwlwififw 4 , 88.Xr iwm 4 , 89.Xr iwn 4 , 90.Xr wlan 4 , 91.Xr ifconfig 8 , 92.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 93