Hi, 14.2-RC1 now has wirless firmware available to the installer. That is especially important for rtw89 which no longer has firmware in the tree at all.
The installer also has a feature (assuming wifi [or ethernet] work) to install the firmware right away into the newly installed system over the network. I had given it some try, espescially with iwlwifi but it would be good to get feedback from others too. The wifi setup in the installer is a lot less feature rich than in bsdconfig so if someone has some time and interest that's a welcome task for the future (also finishing bsdconfig I think) to share most of the code as library functions. Also please note that 14.2 (as does stab;e/14) still has the older versions of the drivers compared to main. So if you have trouble on 14 it would be interesting to grab a latest snapshot build (the latest please from at least last week) for main and give that a try as well. I have one report for 14.2 that rtw89 RTL8852CE does not work on a new laptop. I am waiting for some hardware in that regard myself so I can do testing as well. Also for rtw88 and rtw89 using the new firmware packages you do not have to manually set the tunable anymore as it comes along with the package for you installed to /boot/loader.conf.d/ . I am waiting a few more days for all the builds to be done and packages avail and probably the release being out before i'll start clearing some of that up in src.git (man pages, rtw88 fw, and eventually iwlwifi fw. It also means that I am back to actual WiFi things. There's still two open LinuxKPI tasks hanging around (malloc and dma syncs) which will hopefully proceed the next days in the background. /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb r15:7
