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IWMBTFW(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual IWMBTFW(8)
NAME
iwmbtfw - firmware download utility for Intel Wireless 7260/8260/8265
chip based Bluetooth USB devices
SYNOPSIS
iwmbtfw -d device_name -f firmware_path
iwmbtfw -h
DESCRIPTION
The iwmbtfw utility downloads the specified firmware file to the
specified ugen(4) device.
This utility will only work with Intel Wireless 7260/8260/8265 chip based
Bluetooth USB devices and some of their successors. The identification
is currently based on USB vendor ID/product ID pair. The vendor ID
should be 0x8087 (USB_VENDOR_INTEL2) and the product ID should be one of
the supported devices.
Firmware files are available in the comms/iwmbt-firmware port.
The iwmbtfw utility will query the device to determine which firmware
image and board configuration to load in at runtime.
The options are as follows:
-D Enable verbose debugging.
-d device_name
Specify ugen(4) device name.
-I Enable informational debugging.
-f firmware_path
Specify the directory containing the firmware files to search and
upload.
-h Display usage message and exit.
EXIT STATUS
The iwmbtfw utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO
libusb(3), ugen(4), devd(8)
AUTHORS
iwmbtfw is based on ath3kfw(8) utility used as firmware downloader
template and on Linux btintel driver source code. It is written by
Vladimir Kondratyev <wulf@FreeBSD.org>.
Support for the 7260 card added by
Philippe Michaud-Boudreault <pitwuu@gmail.com>.
BUGS
Most likely. Please report if found.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 May 3, 2021 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11