IWIFW(4)

🌸 iwifw 🌸

okay bestie, so like — this is the iwifw page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual, and it's literally all about firmware for your Intel wireless card. no cap, it's giving very niche but very important energy 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

so if you wanna compile this module directly into your kernel (main character move honestly), you drop this line into your kernel configuration file:

device iwifw

this bad boy will include three firmware images inside the kernel. all three. the whole squad 🫶

but wait — if you're picky and only want, like, the one firmware image for the mode you're actually gonna run your network adapter in? choose one of these icons:

device iwibssfw
device iwiibssfw
device iwimonitorfw

alternatively (the module route, so valid), if you wanna load the driver as a module at boot time, put these lines in loader.conf(5):

iwi_bss_load="YES"
iwi_ibss_load="YES"
iwi_monitor_load="YES"

slay, that's the whole synopsis. moving on 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this module provides access to firmware sets for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG/2225BG/2915ABG series of IEEE 802.11 adapters. yes, that's a whole mouthful, but it's iconic. it may be statically linked into the kernel, or loaded as a module — your call, bestie 🌈

⚠️ but here's the tea: for the loaded firmware to be enabled for use, you must agree to the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE by adding this line to loader.conf(5):

legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1

like, no license ack, no firmware. periodt. 💀

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🎀 FILES 🎀

• /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_iwi.LICENSE — the iwifw firmware license. that's the one you gotta ack, iykyk 👑

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• iwi(4)
• firmware(9)

go read those if you wanna deep-dive, bestie. the lore is there 🧚

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and that's the whole page!! 💜 written for the Debian fam, dated October 15, 2015, version IWIFW(4) — iconic behavior from start to finish, fr fr 🍓