1.\" Copyright (c) 2004-2006 2.\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice unmodified, this list of conditions, and the following 9.\" disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. 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 May 30, 2021 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 iwn1000fw" 49.Cd "device iwn100fw" 50.Cd "device iwn105fw" 51.Cd "device iwn135fw" 52.Cd "device iwn2000fw" 53.Cd "device iwn2030fw" 54.Cd "device iwn4965fw" 55.Cd "device iwn5000fw" 56.Cd "device iwn5150fw" 57.Cd "device iwn6000fw" 58.Cd "device iwn6000g2afw" 59.Cd "device iwn6000g2bfw" 60.Cd "device iwn6050fw" 61.Ed 62.Pp 63Or you can use 64.Bd -ragged -offset indent 65.Cd "device iwnfw" 66.Ed 67.Pp 68to include them all. 69.Pp 70Alternatively, to load the driver as a 71module at boot time, place the following lines in 72.Xr loader.conf 5 : 73.Bd -literal -offset indent 74if_iwn_load="YES" 75iwn1000fw_load="YES" 76iwn100fw_load="YES" 77iwn105fw_load="YES" 78iwn135fw_load="YES" 79iwn2000fw_load="YES" 80iwn2030fw_load="YES" 81iwn4965fw_load="YES" 82iwn5000fw_load="YES" 83iwn5150fw_load="YES" 84iwn6000fw_load="YES" 85iwn6000g2afw_load="YES" 86iwn6000g2bfw_load="YES" 87iwn6050fw_load="YES" 88.Ed 89.Sh DESCRIPTION 90The 91.Nm 92driver provides support for: 93.Pp 94.Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact 95.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 96.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 97.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6230 98.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 99.It Intel Centrino Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 100.It Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 101.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 100 102.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 105 103.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 130 104.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 135 105.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1000 106.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 107.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2200 108.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230 109.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 4965 110.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 5100 111.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6150 112.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6200 113.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N 6250 114.It Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 115.It Intel Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 116.It Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965 117.It Intel WiFi Link 5100 118.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150 119.It Intel WiMAX/WiFi Link 5350 120.El 121.Pp 122.Nm 123supports 124.Cm station 125and 126.Cm monitor 127mode operation. 128Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 129For more information on configuring this device, see 130.Xr ifconfig 8 . 131.Pp 132This driver requires the firmware built with the 133.Nm iwnfw 134module to work. 135.Sh EXAMPLES 136Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 137.Bd -literal -offset indent 138ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 139 netmask 0xffffff00 140.Ed 141.Pp 142Join a specific BSS network with network name 143.Dq Li my_net : 144.Pp 145.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net up" 146.Pp 147Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 148.Bd -literal -offset indent 149ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net \e 150 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 151.Ed 152.Pp 153Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 154.Bd -literal -offset indent 155ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 156 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 157.Ed 158.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 159.Bl -diag 160.It "iwn%d: device timeout" 161The driver will reset the hardware. 162This should not happen. 163.It "iwn%d: firmware error" 164The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 165The driver will reset the hardware. 166This should not happen. 167.It "iwn%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 168The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 169This should not happen. 170.It "iwn%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 171The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 172.Xr firmware 9 173subsystem. 174Verify the 175.Xr iwnfw 4 176firmware module is present. 177.It "iwn%d: could not load boot firmware" 178An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 179failed. 180This should not happen. 181.It "iwn%d: could not load microcode" 182An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 183This should not happen. 184.It "iwn%d: could not load main firmware" 185An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 186failed. 187This should not happen. 188.El 189.Sh SEE ALSO 190.Xr iwnfw 4 , 191.Xr pci 4 , 192.Xr wlan 4 , 193.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 194.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 195.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 196.Xr ifconfig 8 , 197.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 198.Sh AUTHORS 199The original 200.Nm 201driver was written by 202.An Damien Bergamini Aq Mt damien.bergamini@free.fr . 203