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 March 4, 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 37The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using 38.Xr devmatch 8 39if enabled in 40.Xr rc.conf 5 . 41.Pp 42Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following 43lines in 44.Xr rc.conf 5 45to manually load the driver as a module at boot time: 46.Bd -literal -offset indent 47kld_list="${kld_list} if_iwlwifi" 48.Ed 49.Pp 50The driver should automatically load any 51.Xr iwlwififw 4 52firmware needed for the particular chipset. 53.Pp 54It is discouraged to load the driver from 55.Xr loader 8 . 56.Sh DESCRIPTION 57The 58.Nm 59driver is derived from Intel's Linux iwlwifi driver and provides support for 60all chipsets supported by the 61.Em mvm 62part of that driver. 63.\" XXX-BZ find way to add full list of chipsets automatically 64.Nm 65will be a successor to 66.Xr iwm 4 67and may superseed that driver in the future. 68It still complements the 69.Xr iwn 4 70driver which supports older chipsets. 71.Pp 72The driver uses the 73.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here. 74.Em linuxkpi_wlan 75and 76.Em linuxkpi 77compat framework to bridge between the Linux and 78native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native 79.Xr net80211 4 80wireless stack. 81.Pp 82While 83.Nm 84supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax 85the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. 86Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned. 87.Sh BUGS 88Certainly. 89.Sh SEE ALSO 90.Xr iwlwififw 4 , 91.Xr iwm 4 , 92.Xr iwn 4 , 93.Xr wlan 4 , 94.Xr ifconfig 8 , 95.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 96.Sh HISTORY 97The 98.Nm 99driver first appeared in 100.Fx 13.1 . 101