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IWMBTFW(8) System Manager's Manual IWMBTFW(8) NAME iwmbtfw -- load firmware for Intel Wireless AC Bluetooth USB devices SYNOPSIS iwmbtfw [-DI] -d device_name [-f firmware_path] iwmbtfw -h DESCRIPTION The iwmbtfw utility downloads the specified firmware file to the speci- fied ugen(4) device. This utility will only work with Intel Wireless 7260/8260/9260 chip based Bluetooth USB devices and some of their successors. The identi- fication is currently based on USB vendor ID/product ID pair. The ven- dor 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: -I Enable informational debugging. -D Enable verbose debugging. -d device_name Specify ugen(4) device name. -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 tem- plate 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 15.0 July 15, 2025 IWMBTFW(8)
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