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
