On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 03:11:47PM +0100, Marek Kozlowski wrote: > 1. Is it (missing firmware) intentional or is it a bug to be fixed?
The firmware cannot be distributed with the OpenBSD base system for licensing reasons. > 2. It informs that it cannot find formware - error 2... then it asks for > ESSID and a WPA passphrase for that interface..? I'm not sure if I > understand that idea... > > 3. Is there or isn't there any difference between installation with and > without working network connection? As you are using install70.img, you don't need a working network connection to complete the installation of the base system. All of the files you need are included in install70.img. > 4. Currently I have only Linux installed. I'm wondering what is the easiest > way of updating the install USB flash drive. If you really want to have the wireless NIC working during installation, you could manually download the firmware file from: http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/ and copy it to another USB flash drive. You can then exit to a shell in the installer, and mount the second flash drive on /etc/firmware/. However, it would be much easier to complete the installation first, then use fw_update with the -p option to install the firmware from a local copy that you have already downloaded separately.
