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30.Dd October 27, 2021
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 loader.conf 5 :
39.Bd -literal -offset indent
40if_iwlwifi_load="YES"
41.Ed
42.Pp
43The driver should automatically load any
44.Xr iwlwififw 4
45firmware needed for the particular chipset.
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49driver is derived from Intel's Linux iwlwifi driver and provides support for
50all chipsets supported by the
51.Em mvm
52part of that driver.
53This superseeds the
54.Xr iwm 4
55driver which provided support for a subset of these chipsets and still
56complements the
57.Xr iwn 4
58driver supporting older chipsets.
59.Pp
60The driver uses the
61.\" No LinuxKPI man pages so no .Xr here.
62.Em linuxkpi_wlan
63and
64.Em linuxkpi
65compat framework to bridge between the Linux and
66native FreeBSD driver code.
67.Pp
68While
69.Nm
70supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax
71the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes.
72Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned.
73.Sh BUGS
74Certainly.
75.Sh SEE ALSO
76.Xr iwlwififw 4 ,
77.Xr iwm 4 ,
78.Xr iwn 4 ,
79.Xr wlan 4 ,
80.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
81.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
82