Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:23:30 +0200 From: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60@gmail.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 15-BETA1 attempts to load nonexistent wifi firmware Message-ID: <94d44e1e-fe7f-42c4-8c66-777daed40628@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3nr73r7n-8q99-qp28-n43-oop46q921pp9@mnoonqbm.arg> References: <5b722335-c392-4cd1-b89b-16be8432a156@gmail.com> <3nr73r7n-8q99-qp28-n43-oop46q921pp9@mnoonqbm.arg>
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Hi Bjoern It say " firmware notfound , install failed " in the dialoge and then moves on to the next step. User is not informed why this happend. But after I later grepped the whole ports tree after "firmware" it was obvioulsy not available. One may expect that the firmware would exist if installation is attempted. //Regards Den 2025-10-13 kl. 11:11, skrev Bjoern A. Zeeb: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > > Hi Lars, > >> from /var/log/bsdinstall_log : >> >> /DEBUG: f_getvar: var=[text] >> value=[wifi-firmware-mediatek-kmod-mt792x] r=0 >> pkg: No packages available to install matching >> 'wifi-firmware-mediatek-kmod-mt792x' have been found in the >> repositories/ >> >> ------------------- >> >> Installer made a guess from info found on Motherboard >> and tried to install a firmware that does not exist . ( yet ) >> H/W is the ASROCK TRX50 motherboard. with >> MediaTek 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6E Module. >> >> Is the bsdinstaller expected to guess at what Firmware >> can be installed ? > > fwget(8) already knows about it but the install media likely only has > the firmware > for drivers which we already support in that release (tried to be > conservative at > some point). > > Does it just give an error and move on? I believe I wrote the > bsdinstall bits > in a way that it installs firmware one by one just for these cases > where a > firmware package does not exist it will still install all the others. > Not sure > if that all still is the case? > > /bz >
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