Hi, On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 12:55:31PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > A configuration option in fwupd.conf(5) to ignore network reachability and > try to download firmware regardless might also be a reasonable upstream > feature request for fwupd. It documents IgnorePower and IgnoreRequirements, > but there doesn't seem to be an option like IgnoreNetworkMonitor.
Just to note that the recent fwupd 2.0.14 release added a feature to ignore network reachability detection by means of setting the environment variable FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE. This package is now available in sid. I added an override to the fwupd.service file like: [Service] Environment="FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE=1" and restarted it, After this, issuing # fwupdmgr refresh still failed with a message about there being a network reachability problem. However, # FWUPD_IGNORE_NETWORK_REACHABLE=1 fwupdmgr refresh *did* work. I remain unsure if both programs require to run with this environment, but that functionality *does* now seem to be present in the fwupd package. Thanks, Andy
