Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:09:08 +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: <6068ff37-e426-41b8-b0dd-76755e6c4a9f@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <77o5736s-n5o5-2254-194-099ssoqsp38@SerrOFQ.bet> References: <5b722335-c392-4cd1-b89b-16be8432a156@gmail.com> <3nr73r7n-8q99-qp28-n43-oop46q921pp9@mnoonqbm.arg> <94d44e1e-fe7f-42c4-8c66-777daed40628@gmail.com> <77o5736s-n5o5-2254-194-099ssoqsp38@SerrOFQ.bet>
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Hi , No its missing from repository Installed 15-Beta1 on this machine this morning. Using wired networking, Motherboard also has this Wifi circutry. I also downloaded fresh ports from GITHUB this morning. Ports have "wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod " " wifi-firmware-mt7601u-kmod" I built and installed wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod and mt7925/* is now in /boot/firmware/mediatek/mt7925 # fwget -v Trying to match device 0x15ff in class network and vendor intel with pci_network_intel Trying to match device 0x15ff in class network and vendor intel with pci_network_intel Trying to match device 0x0717 in class network and vendor mediatek with pci_network_mediatek Trying to match device 0x8125 in class network and vendor realtek with pci_network_realtek Needed firmware packages: 'wifi-firmware-mediatek-kmod-mt792x' pkg: No packages available to install matching 'wifi-firmware-mediatek-kmod-mt792x' have been found in the repositories Regards Den 2025-10-13 kl. 11:32, skrev Bjoern A. Zeeb: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > > Hi, > >> 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. > > Actually, fwget in the installer should do this over the network; so the > firmware should be available as package in the repo. > > net/wifi-firmware-mt76-kmod@mt792x does exist in the ports tree. > There's always chances, that a package wasn't built. > > If you manually run fwget, does it install the firmware now on the > running system? > > /bz >
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