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 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