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