Re: 15-BETA1 attempts to load nonexistent wifi firmware

From: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:23:30 UTC
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
>