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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.Dd February 20, 2024 27.Dt IWM 4 28.Os 29.Sh NAME 30.Nm iwm 31.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11ac wireless network driver 32.Sh SYNOPSIS 33To compile this driver into the kernel, 34include the following lines in your 35kernel configuration file: 36.Bd -ragged -offset indent 37.Cd "device iwm" 38.Cd "device pci" 39.Cd "device wlan" 40.Cd "device firmware" 41.Ed 42.Pp 43You also need to select a firmware for your device. 44Choose one from: 45.Bd -ragged -offset indent 46.Cd "device iwm3160fw" 47.Cd "device iwm3168fw" 48.Cd "device iwm7260fw" 49.Cd "device iwm7265fw" 50.Cd "device iwm7265Dfw" 51.Cd "device iwm8000Cfw" 52.Cd "device iwm8265fw" 53.Cd "device iwm9000fw" 54.Cd "device iwm9260fw" 55.Ed 56.Pp 57Or you can use 58.Bd -ragged -offset indent 59.Cd "device iwmfw" 60.Ed 61.Pp 62to include them all. 63.Pp 64Alternatively, to load the driver as a 65module at boot time, place the following lines in 66.Xr loader.conf 5 : 67.Bd -literal -offset indent 68if_iwm_load="YES" 69iwm3160fw_load="YES" 70iwm3168fw_load="YES" 71iwm7260fw_load="YES" 72iwm7265fw_load="YES" 73iwm7265Dfw_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.Pp 110Currently, 111.Nm 112only supports 802.11b and 802.11g modes. 113It will not associate to access points that are configured to operate only 114in 802.11n or 802.11ac modes. 115.Sh EXAMPLES 116Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 117.Bd -literal -offset indent 118ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 119 netmask 0xffffff00 120.Ed 121.Pp 122Join a specific BSS network with network name 123.Dq Li my_net : 124.Pp 125.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up" 126.Pp 127Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 128.Bd -literal -offset indent 129ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \e 130 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 131.Ed 132.Pp 133Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 134.Bd -literal -offset indent 135ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 136 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 137.Ed 138.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 139.Bl -diag 140.It "iwm%d: device timeout" 141The driver will reset the hardware. 142This should not happen. 143.It "iwm%d: firmware error" 144The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 145The driver will reset the hardware. 146This should not happen. 147.It "iwm%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 148The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 149This should not happen. 150.It "iwm%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 151The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 152.Xr firmware 9 153subsystem. 154Verify the 155.Xr iwmfw 4 156firmware module is present. 157.It "iwm%d: could not load boot firmware" 158An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 159failed. 160This should not happen. 161.It "iwm%d: could not load microcode" 162An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 163This should not happen. 164.It "iwm%d: could not load main firmware" 165An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 166failed. 167This should not happen. 168.El 169.Sh SEE ALSO 170.Xr iwlwifi 4 , 171.Xr iwmfw 4 , 172.Xr pci 4 , 173.Xr wlan 4 , 174.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 175.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 176.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 177.Xr ifconfig 8 , 178.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 179