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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 March 19, 2013 29.Dt IWN 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwn 33.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11n 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 iwn" 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 iwn4965fw" 49.Cd "device iwn1000fw" 50.Cd "device iwn5000fw" 51.Cd "device iwn5150fw" 52.Cd "device iwn6000fw" 53.Cd "device iwn6000g2afw" 54.Cd "device iwn6000g2bfw" 55.Cd "device iwn6050fw" 56.Ed 57.Pp 58Or you can use 59.Bd -ragged -offset indent 60.Cd "device iwnfw" 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_iwn_load="YES" 70iwn4965fw_load="YES" 71iwn1000fw_load="YES" 72iwn5000fw_load="YES" 73iwn5150fw_load="YES" 74iwn6000fw_load="YES" 75iwn6000g2afw_load="YES" 76iwn6000g2bfw_load="YES" 77iwn6050fw_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 Centrino Advanced-N 6200 86.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 87.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 88.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 89.It Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 90.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 130 91.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 92.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 93.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 94.It Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 95.It Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965 96.It Intel WiFi Link 5100 97.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 98.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 99.El 100.Pp 101.Nm 102supports 103.Cm station 104and 105.Cm monitor 106mode operation. 107Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 108For more information on configuring this device, see 109.Xr ifconfig 8 . 110.Pp 111This driver requires the firmware built with the 112.Nm iwnfw 113module to work. 114.Sh EXAMPLES 115Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 116.Bd -literal -offset indent 117ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 118 netmask 0xffffff00 119.Ed 120.Pp 121Join a specific BSS network with network name 122.Dq Li my_net : 123.Pp 124.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net up" 125.Pp 126Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 127.Bd -literal -offset indent 128ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net \e 129 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 130.Ed 131.Pp 132Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 133.Bd -literal -offset indent 134ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 135 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 136.Ed 137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 138.Bl -diag 139.It "iwn%d: device timeout" 140The driver will reset the hardware. 141This should not happen. 142.It "iwn%d: firmware error" 143The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 144The driver will reset the hardware. 145This should not happen. 146.It "iwn%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 147The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 148This should not happen. 149.It "iwn%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 150The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 151.Xr firmware 9 152subsystem. 153Verify the 154.Xr iwnfw 4 155firmware module is present. 156.It "iwn%d: could not load boot firmware" 157An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 158failed. 159This should not happen. 160.It "iwn%d: could not load microcode" 161An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 162This should not happen. 163.It "iwn%d: could not load main firmware" 164An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 165failed. 166This should not happen. 167.El 168.Sh SEE ALSO 169.Xr iwnfw 4 , 170.Xr pci 4 , 171.Xr wlan 4 , 172.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 173.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 174.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 175.Xr ifconfig 8 , 176.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 177.Sh AUTHORS 178The original 179.Nm 180driver was written by 181.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien.bergamini@free.fr . 182