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author | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-10-13 16:37:53 +0000 |
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committer | Damien Bergamini <damien@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2008-10-13 16:37:53 +0000 |
commit | 7ccebb9a6e085d3d20f381cc0e35db899fc7a303 (patch) | |
tree | 2219d5c405d245dd28c47973e367ee2e8f4378fe /share | |
parent | 2e00c710ae1bbf327ef6802bff993cdde1213b5c (diff) |
document 5000 Series support and new firmware url.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/iwn.4 | 32 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/iwn.4 b/share/man/man4/iwn.4 index 80135842f37..247053b7c55 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/iwn.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/iwn.4 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: iwn.4,v 1.8 2008/07/29 16:44:19 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: iwn.4,v 1.9 2008/10/13 16:37:52 damien Exp $ .\" -.\" Copyright (c) 2007 +.\" Copyright (c) 2007,2008 .\" Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>. All rights reserved. .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any @@ -15,12 +15,12 @@ .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: July 29 2008 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: October 13 2008 $ .Os .Dt IWN 4 .Sh NAME .Nm iwn -.Nd "Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN IEEE 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N wireless network device" +.Nd "Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN and Intel WiFi Link 5000 Series IEEE 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N wireless network devices" .Sh SYNOPSIS .Cd "iwn* at pci?" .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -28,7 +28,18 @@ The .Nm driver provides support for .Tn Intel -Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN Mini PCI Express network adapters. +Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN and Intel WiFi Link 5000 Series Mini PCI Express network adapters. +.Pp +The Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN product is a PCIe Mini Card network adapter that operates in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHZ spectrum. +The 4965AGN adapters have 2 transmit paths and 3 receiver paths (2T3R). +.Pp +The Intel WiFi Link 5000 is a family of wireless network adapters that operate in both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz spectrum. +These adapters are available in both PCIe Mini Card (model code ending by MMW) and PCIe Half Mini Card (model code ending by HMW) form factor. +The +.Nm +driver provides support for the 5100, 5150, 5300 and 5350 adapters. +The 5100 and 5150 adapters have 1 transmit path and 2 receiver paths (1T2R). +The 5300 and 5350 adapters have 3 transmit paths and 3 receiver paths (3T3R). .Pp These are the modes the .Nm @@ -73,11 +84,12 @@ driver can be configured at runtime with or on boot with .Xr hostname.if 5 . .Sh FILES -The driver needs at least version 4.44.1.20 of the following firmware file, -which is loaded when an interface is brought up: +The driver needs at least version 5.0 of the following firmware files, +which are loaded when an interface is brought up: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -offset indent -compact -.It Pa /etc/firmware/iwn-4965agn +.It Pa /etc/firmware/iwn-4965 +.It Pa /etc/firmware/iwn-5000 .El .Pp This firmware file is not free because Intel refuses to grant @@ -86,14 +98,12 @@ As a result, even though .Ox includes the driver, the firmware file cannot be included and users have to download this file on their own. -The official person to state your views to about this issue is -majid.awad@intel.com. .Pp A prepackaged version of the firmware, designed to be used with .Xr pkg_add 1 , can be found at: .Bd -literal -http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/packages/openbsd/iwn-firmware-4.44.1.20.tgz +http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/packages/openbsd/iwn-firmware-5.0.tgz .Ed .Sh EXAMPLES The following |