iwlwifi: update man pages

Update man pages given auto-loading is now enabled by default and
no user configuration is needed to load the driver.
Also note that the iwlwifi driver will appear the first time in 13.1-R.

Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after:	3 days
Relnotes:	yes
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Bjoern A. Zeeb 2022-03-04 00:27:00 +00:00
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 1, 2022
.Dd March 4, 2022
.Dt iwlwifi 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm iwlwifi
.Nd Intel IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax wireless network driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
To load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in
.Xr rc.conf 5 :
The driver will auto-load without any user interaction using
.Xr devmatch 8
if enabled in
.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.Pp
Only if auto-loading is explicitly disabled, place the following
lines in
.Xr rc.conf 5
to manually load the driver as a module at boot time:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
kld_list="${kld_list} if_iwlwifi"
.Ed
.Pp
The driver should automatically load any
.Xr iwlwififw 4
firmware needed for the particular chipset in that case.
.Pp
It is anticipated that the driver will support auto-loading via
.Xr devmatch 8
in the future and will need no configuration at all.
firmware needed for the particular chipset.
.Pp
It is discouraged to load the driver from
.Xr loader 8 .
@ -90,3 +93,8 @@ Certainly.
.Xr wlan 4 ,
.Xr ifconfig 8 ,
.Xr wpa_supplicant 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver first appeared in
.Fx 13.1 .

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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd January 1, 2022
.Dd March 3, 2022
.Dt iwlwififw 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -52,3 +52,8 @@ firmware license is installed at
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr iwlwifi 4 ,
.Xr firmware 9
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
firmware modules first appeared in
.Fx 13.1 .