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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 27, 2012 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 , 104.Cm adhoc , 105and 106.Cm monitor 107mode operation. 108Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time. 109For more information on configuring this device, see 110.Xr ifconfig 8 . 111.Pp 112This driver requires the firmware built with the 113.Nm iwnfw 114module to work. 115.Sh EXAMPLES 116Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point): 117.Bd -literal -offset indent 118ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 inet 192.168.0.20 \e 119 netmask 0xffffff00 120.Ed 121.Pp 122Join a specific BSS network with network name 123.Dq Li my_net : 124.Pp 125.Dl "ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net up" 126.Pp 127Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption: 128.Bd -literal -offset indent 129ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 ssid my_net \e 130 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up 131.Ed 132.Pp 133Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption: 134.Bd -literal -offset indent 135ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net \e 136 wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1 137.Ed 138.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 139.Bl -diag 140.It "iwn%d: device timeout" 141The driver will reset the hardware. 142This should not happen. 143.It "iwn%d: firmware error" 144The onboard microcontroller crashed for some reason. 145The driver will reset the hardware. 146This should not happen. 147.It "iwn%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete" 148The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time. 149This should not happen. 150.It "iwn%d: could not load firmware image '%s'" 151The driver failed to load the firmware image using the 152.Xr firmware 9 153subsystem. 154Verify the 155.Xr iwnfw 4 156firmware module is present. 157.It "iwn%d: could not load boot firmware" 158An attempt to upload the boot firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 159failed. 160This should not happen. 161.It "iwn%d: could not load microcode" 162An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed. 163This should not happen. 164.It "iwn%d: could not load main firmware" 165An attempt to upload the main firmware image to the onboard microcontroller 166failed. 167This should not happen. 168.El 169.Sh SEE ALSO 170.Xr iwnfw 4 , 171.Xr pci 4 , 172.Xr wlan 4 , 173.Xr wlan_ccmp 4 , 174.Xr wlan_tkip 4 , 175.Xr wlan_wep 4 , 176.Xr ifconfig 8 , 177.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 178.Sh AUTHORS 179The original 180.Nm 181driver was written by 182.An Damien Bergamini Aq damien.bergamini@free.fr . 183