Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 04:10:10 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 291052] Request to offline-distribute kernel modules and pkg(8) repositories in iso and img images. Message-ID: <bug-291052-227-sCXJslYJtg@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-291052-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=291052 --- Comment #2 from ykla <yklaxds@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Colin Percival from comment #1) Actually, I meant the kmod pkg source rather than the pkgbase. In kmod, some drivers will be called in bsdinstall, such as drivers for wireless network cards and graphics cards. These drivers do not take up a huge amount of space. After failing to install, the system does not prompt the user to call fgwet for the actual installation. How can drivers be installed without a network card driver? If the user needs both an ax200 and a Realtek Ethernet card at the same time, they fall into a kind of paradox — I am an example of this. Using Android phone RNDIS also only works on certain phones. Downloading with a USB drive and then installing offline is not a feasible solution either, as pkg's domain name actually forbids users from accessing it normally (403 error). For example, https://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:15:amd64/kmods_latest/All/. Pkg data may also be refreshed, but the version it points to is still old. Therefore, even if the actual URL is pieced together from the file name, it may still fail to download. Returning to the BSDinstall installation flow, it does not check the network download speed; it simply keeps downloading at a speed of several KB and, in most cases, gets stuck. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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