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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 July 26, 2016 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 iwm7260fw" 50.Cd "device iwm7265fw" 51.Cd "device iwm8000Cfw" 52.Ed 53.Pp 54Or you can use 55.Bd -ragged -offset indent 56.Cd "device iwmfw" 57.Ed 58.Pp 59to include them all. 60.Pp 61Alternatively, to load the driver as a 62module at boot time, place the following lines in 63.Xr loader.conf 5 : 64.Bd -literal -offset indent 65if_iwm_load="YES" 66iwm3160fw_load="YES" 67iwm7260fw_load="YES" 68iwm7265fw_load="YES" 69iwm8000Cfw_load="YES" 70.Ed 71.Sh DESCRIPTION 72The 73.Nm 74driver provides support for: 75.Pp 76.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 77.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 78.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3165 79.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 80.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 81.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 82.El 83.Pp 84.Nm 85supports 86.Cm station 87mode operation. 88Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 89For more information on configuring this device, see 90.Xr ifconfig 8 . 91.Pp 92This driver requires the firmware built with the 93.Nm iwmfw 94module to work. 95.Sh EXAMPLES 96Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 97.Bd -literal -offset indent 98ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 99 netmask 0xffffff00 100.Ed 101.Pp 102Join a specific BSS network with network name 103.Dq Li my_net : 104.Pp 105.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up" 106.Pp 107Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 108.Bd -literal -offset indent 109ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \e 110 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 111.Ed 112.Pp 113Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 114.Bd -literal -offset indent 115ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 116 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 117.Ed 118.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 119.Bl -diag 120.It "iwm%d: device timeout" 121The driver will reset the hardware. 122This should not happen. 123.It "iwm%d: firmware error" 124The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 125The driver will reset the hardware. 126This should not happen. 127.It "iwm%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 128The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 129This should not happen. 130.It "iwm%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 131The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 132.Xr firmware 9 133subsystem. 134Verify the 135.Xr iwmfw 4 136firmware module is present. 137.It "iwm%d: could not load boot firmware" 138An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 139failed. 140This should not happen. 141.It "iwm%d: could not load microcode" 142An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 143This should not happen. 144.It "iwm%d: could not load main firmware" 145An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 146failed. 147This should not happen. 148.El 149.Sh SEE ALSO 150.Xr iwmfw 4 , 151.Xr pci 4 , 152.Xr wlan 4 , 153.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 154.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 155.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 156.Xr ifconfig 8 , 157.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 158