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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 20, 2010 29.Dt IWN 4 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm iwn 33.Nd Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965/1000/5000/5150/5300/6000/6050 34IEEE 802.11n driver 35.Sh SYNOPSIS 36To compile this driver into the kernel, 37include the following lines in your 38kernel configuration file: 39.Bd -ragged -offset indent 40.Cd "device iwn" 41.Cd "device pci" 42.Cd "device wlan" 43.Cd "device firmware" 44.Ed 45.Pp 46You also need to select a firmware for your device. 47Choose one from: 48.Bd -ragged -offset indent 49.Cd "device iwn4965fw" 50.Cd "device iwn1000fw" 51.Cd "device iwn5000fw" 52.Cd "device iwn5150fw" 53.Cd "device iwn6000fw" 54.Cd "device iwn6050fw" 55.Ed 56.Pp 57Or you can use 58.Bd -ragged -offset indent 59.Cd "device iwnfw" 60.Ed 61.Pp 62to include them all. 63.Pp 64Alternatively, to load the driver as a 65module at boot time, place the following lines in 66.Xr loader.conf 5 : 67.Bd -literal -offset indent 68if_iwn_load="YES" 69iwn4965fw_load="YES" 70iwn1000fw_load="YES" 71iwn5000fw_load="YES" 72iwn5150fw_load="YES" 73iwn6000fw_load="YES" 74iwn6050fw_load="YES" 75.Ed 76.Sh DESCRIPTION 77The 78.Nm 79driver provides support for 80.Tn Intel 81Wireless WiFi Link 4965, 1000, 5000 and 6000 series of 82PCI-Express network adapters. 83.Nm 84supports 85.Cm station , 86.Cm adhoc , 87and 88.Cm monitor 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 iwnfw 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 iwn0 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 iwn0 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 iwn0 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 iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 118 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 119.Ed 120.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 121.Bl -diag 122.It "iwn%d: device timeout" 123The driver will reset the hardware. 124This should not happen. 125.It "iwn%d: firmware error" 126The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 127The driver will reset the hardware. 128This should not happen. 129.It "iwn%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 130The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 131This should not happen. 132.It "iwn%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 iwnfw 4 138firmware module is present. 139.It "iwn%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 "iwn%d: could not load microcode" 144An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 145This should not happen. 146.It "iwn%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 iwnfw 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.Sh AUTHORS 161The original 162.Nm 163driver was written by 164.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien.bergamini@free.fr 165