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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 June 28, 2020 29.Dt IWM 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwm 33.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35To compile this driver into the kernel, 36include the following lines in your 37kernel configuration file: 38.Bd -ragged -offset indent 39.Cd "device iwm" 40.Cd "device pci" 41.Cd "device wlan" 42.Cd "device firmware" 43.Ed 44.Pp 45You also need to select a firmware for your device. 46Choose one from: 47.Bd -ragged -offset indent 48.Cd "device iwm3160fw" 49.Cd "device iwm3168fw" 50.Cd "device iwm7260fw" 51.Cd "device iwm7265fw" 52.Cd "device iwm8000Cfw" 53.Cd "device iwm8265fw" 54.Cd "device iwm9000fw" 55.Cd "device iwm9260fw" 56.Ed 57.Pp 58Or you can use 59.Bd -ragged -offset indent 60.Cd "device iwmfw" 61.Ed 62.Pp 63to include them all. 64.Pp 65Alternatively, to load the driver as a 66module at boot time, place the following lines in 67.Xr loader.conf 5 : 68.Bd -literal -offset indent 69if_iwm_load="YES" 70iwm3160fw_load="YES" 71iwm3168fw_load="YES" 72iwm7260fw_load="YES" 73iwm7265fw_load="YES" 74iwm8000Cfw_load="YES" 75iwm8265fw_load="YES" 76iwm9000fw_load="YES" 77iwm9260fw_load="YES" 78.Ed 79.Sh DESCRIPTION 80The 81.Nm 82driver provides support for: 83.Pp 84.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 85.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 86.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3165 87.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3168 88.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 89.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 90.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 91.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8265 92.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9260 93.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9270 94.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 946X 95.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 9560 96.El 97.Pp 98.Nm 99supports 100.Cm station 101mode operation. 102Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 103For more information on configuring this device, see 104.Xr ifconfig 8 . 105.Pp 106This driver requires the firmware built with the 107.Nm iwmfw 108module to work. 109.Sh EXAMPLES 110Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 111.Bd -literal -offset indent 112ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 113 netmask 0xffffff00 114.Ed 115.Pp 116Join a specific BSS network with network name 117.Dq Li my_net : 118.Pp 119.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up" 120.Pp 121Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 122.Bd -literal -offset indent 123ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \e 124 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 125.Ed 126.Pp 127Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 128.Bd -literal -offset indent 129ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 130 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 131.Ed 132.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 133.Bl -diag 134.It "iwm%d: device timeout" 135The driver will reset the hardware. 136This should not happen. 137.It "iwm%d: firmware error" 138The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 139The driver will reset the hardware. 140This should not happen. 141.It "iwm%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 142The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 143This should not happen. 144.It "iwm%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 145The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 146.Xr firmware 9 147subsystem. 148Verify the 149.Xr iwmfw 4 150firmware module is present. 151.It "iwm%d: could not load boot firmware" 152An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 153failed. 154This should not happen. 155.It "iwm%d: could not load microcode" 156An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 157This should not happen. 158.It "iwm%d: could not load main firmware" 159An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 160failed. 161This should not happen. 162.El 163.Sh SEE ALSO 164.Xr iwmfw 4 , 165.Xr pci 4 , 166.Xr wlan 4 , 167.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 168.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 169.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 170.Xr ifconfig 8 , 171.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 172