Re: 15-BETA1 attempts to load nonexistent wifi firmware

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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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7