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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 October 29, 2017 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.Ed 55.Pp 56Or you can use 57.Bd -ragged -offset indent 58.Cd "device iwmfw" 59.Ed 60.Pp 61to include them all. 62.Pp 63Alternatively, to load the driver as a 64module at boot time, place the following lines in 65.Xr loader.conf 5 : 66.Bd -literal -offset indent 67if_iwm_load="YES" 68iwm3160fw_load="YES" 69iwm3168fw_load="YES" 70iwm7260fw_load="YES" 71iwm7265fw_load="YES" 72iwm8000Cfw_load="YES" 73iwm8265fw_load="YES" 74.Ed 75.Sh DESCRIPTION 76The 77.Nm 78driver provides support for: 79.Pp 80.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 81.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 82.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3165 83.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 3168 84.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7260 85.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 7265 86.It Intel Dual Band Wireless AC 8260 87.El 88.Pp 89.Nm 90supports 91.Cm station 92mode operation. 93Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 94For more information on configuring this device, see 95.Xr ifconfig 8 . 96.Pp 97This driver requires the firmware built with the 98.Nm iwmfw 99module to work. 100.Sh EXAMPLES 101Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 102.Bd -literal -offset indent 103ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 104 netmask 0xffffff00 105.Ed 106.Pp 107Join a specific BSS network with network name 108.Dq Li my_net : 109.Pp 110.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net up" 111.Pp 112Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 113.Bd -literal -offset indent 114ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 ssid my_net \e 115 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 116.Ed 117.Pp 118Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 119.Bd -literal -offset indent 120ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwm0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 121 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 122.Ed 123.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 124.Bl -diag 125.It "iwm%d: device timeout" 126The driver will reset the hardware. 127This should not happen. 128.It "iwm%d: firmware error" 129The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 130The driver will reset the hardware. 131This should not happen. 132.It "iwm%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 133The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 134This should not happen. 135.It "iwm%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 136The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 137.Xr firmware 9 138subsystem. 139Verify the 140.Xr iwmfw 4 141firmware module is present. 142.It "iwm%d: could not load boot firmware" 143An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 144failed. 145This should not happen. 146.It "iwm%d: could not load microcode" 147An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 148This should not happen. 149.It "iwm%d: could not load main firmware" 150An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 151failed. 152This should not happen. 153.El 154.Sh SEE ALSO 155.Xr iwmfw 4 , 156.Xr pci 4 , 157.Xr wlan 4 , 158.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 159.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 160.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 161.Xr ifconfig 8 , 162.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 163