iwlwifi(4)

NAME
iwlwifi - Intel IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax wireless network driver

SYNOPSIS
The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using devmatch(8) if enabled in rc.conf(5).

Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following lines in rc.conf(5) to manually load the driver as a module at boot time:

    kld_list="${kld_list} if_iwlwifi"

The driver should automatically load any iwlwififw(4) firmware needed for the particular chipset.

It is discouraged to load the driver from loader(8).

DESCRIPTION
The iwlwifi driver is derived from Intel's Linux iwlwifi driver and provides support for all chipsets supported by the mvm part of that driver. iwlwifi will be a successor to iwm(4) and may superseed that driver in the future. It still complements the iwn(4) driver which supports older chipsets.

The driver uses the linuxkpi_wlan and linuxkpi compat framework to bridge between the Linux and native FreeBSD driver code as well as to the native net80211(4) wireless stack.

While iwlwifi supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned.

BUGS
Certainly.

SEE ALSO
iwlwififw(4), iwm(4), iwn(4), wlan(4), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8)

HISTORY
The iwlwifi driver first appeared in FreeBSD 13.1.