Re: 15-BETA1 attempts to load nonexistent wifi firmware

From: Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:03:37 UTC
  HI

  I  have   installed  15 - Beta3  on  a PC  with   the  Mediatek 7925  
WIFI  chip and  the  firmware is now  correctly  Found  and
installed   by the  FreeBSD  DVD  based   installer.

  //Lars


Den 2025-10-13 kl. 16:05, skrev Lars Tunkrans:
>
> Den 2025-10-13 kl. 15:18, skrev Bjoern A. Zeeb:
>> On Mon, 13 Oct 2025, Lars Tunkrans wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>  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
>>
>> Doh!  Now I see it.  The name is wrong in fwget;  I thought that was 
>> fixed a long time ago.
>>
>> Okay, fix is here:
>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D53067
>>
>> /bz
>>
>   Cool ,  happy  to  have  helped  improve the  system  !
>
>      //Lars
>
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist