Re: FreeBSD 15.0-BETA3 - no iwlwifi0 wifi firmware after install

On Wed, 29 Oct 2025, peter wrote:

> iH,
>
>   During the install, I successfully connect to wifi and download pkgbase.  
> After booting into the freshly installed system, no wifi and this in 
> /var/log/messages:
>
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: <iwlwifi> mem 
> 0x603db9c000-0x603db9ffff at device 20.3 on pci0
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: Detected crf-id 0x3617, cnv-id 
> 0x20000302 wfpm id 0x80000000
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: PCI dev 43f0/0070, rev=0x351, 
> rfid=0x10a100
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 
> 160MHz
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode: could not 
> load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode either
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg syslogd: last message repeated 1 times
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77_ucode: could not 
> load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77_ucode either
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi_QuZ_a0_hr_b0_77_ucode: could not 
> load binary firmware /boot/firmware/iwlwifi_QuZ_a0_hr_b0_77_ucode either
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: could not load firmware image 
> 'iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode'
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: File size way too small!
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: no suitable firmware found!
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77 is 
> required
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: check 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git
> Oct 30 01:04:29 freeburg kernel: iwlwifi0: On FreeBSD the firmware package 
> can be installed running fwget(8).
>
> During the install the fwget step, it says nothing to download.

Hmmm.   Can you open a PR for this?  It should be tracked blocking the 15.0-metabug;
if you send the PR number I can set the details.


> My workaround has been to open a shell during the install and 
> copy /boot/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode 
> to /mnt/boot/firmware/iwlwifi-QuZ-a0-hr-b0-77.ucode. Only then do I have wifi 
> on a fresh install and can run 'fwget', which downloads all the other 
> iwlwifi...ucode files.

So if you have natworking, fwget on an installed machine does the right thing?


> I figure if I have wifi during install, it should work on fresh boot, as 
> my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf is setup correctly by the installer.

That is good news as https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=290452
said this wsan't the case either.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7