Re: How to install wifi firmware with no wired connection

Is there some particular reason this is a documented work-around rather than simply including the wifi firmware in the installer image?

It’s so straight-forward to include the firmware on the installation ISO, even with limits on the ISO size (the >2GB ISO images are probably, in fact, a little bloated!) that I must be missing something?

- Jordan

> On Oct 21, 2026, at 5:53 AM, Devin Teske <dteske@freebsd.org> wrote:
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> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On 21 Oct 2026, at 3:53 AM, Tomek CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM Lars Tunkrans <drsnx60@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> hi
>>>   Here is a  one-pager documentation  that  I  feel  is  missing from
>>> the handbook.
>>>   AN often recurring  issue  in  forums and discord  is a  user with a
>>> new laptop without wired Ethernet  connection.
>>>    the  problem  becomes  how  to  install  WIFI-Firmware  when you
>>> cant download anything  to  the  machine.
>>>      There may be  other  ways  to  solve  the  issue , but this is
>>> what I  came up with.
>> 
>> Thanks Lars, +1 to add to Handbook, these hints may come handy also in
>> other similar situations :-)
>> 
> 
> I filed a bug for this issue back in May, and even included remediation steps:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295433
> 
> I will have a look at the proposed handbook additions soon
> 
> I am curious how close our steps are to each other
> 
> Thank you, Lars, for taking this on as well
> — 
> Devin