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.

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.