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I finally got the wireless working
Asher Barnes
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Nicholas Morris
joys of OpenBSD
Luis Martinez
Based
Jason Roberts
now do this
Anthony Gutierrez
FUCKING HOW?????
Ethan Martinez
>systemdick
Kevin Russell
read the fucking manual
David Sanders
please get off the internet, grandpa
Juan Stewart
man 8 ifconfig
Dylan Long
I booted to a Tails live CD to confirm that my wireless adapter actually worked. I then used the command "lspci" to list all the devices and their names. I made a note of the make and model of the wireless adapter. I found out that OpenBSD does not yet have drivers for that make/model.
I then booted into Tails on a different model laptop and used "lspci" to find the make/model of it's wireless card. I found OpenBSD drivers for that wireless card.
Then I physically swapped the wireless cards between the 2 laptops. I ran "fw_update" on the original laptop with the new wireless adapter. It found the drivers and installed them. Then I ran "ifconfig" to see the interface name of the wireless adapter (in my case it is iwn0). I then followed the instructions of "man hostname.if" and made a hostname file (hostname.iwn0) and put it in the /etc/ directory. The hostname.iwn0 file told my wireless adapter to automatically connect to the wifi. I rebooted and it automatically connected.
Dominic Cook
>systemd
Zachary Cruz
literal witchcraft
Lucas Cooper
Jesus, let's meet and fuck, user
Jason Walker
I think I will stay on Linux...
Robert Jackson
Good job! They do mention it in the manual. OpenBSD comes with the driver for your card, but not the nonfree firmware.
>These firmware files are not free because Intel refuses to grant distribution rights without contractual obligations. As a result, even though OpenBSD includes the driver, the firmware files cannot be included and users have to download these files on their own.
>A prepackaged version of the firmware can be installed using fw_update(1).
man.openbsd.org
I keep around a $10 USB wireless adapter that doesn't need firmware for initial install on laptops. If I have it plugged in on first boot, fw_update picks up the firmware for the builtin card automatically. Saves having to take apart the laptop to swap cards.
Thomas Martin
Tits or GTFO.
Michael Harris
>2020
>reeBSD can't into wireless
keked
Oliver Morales
BSD and Openpilled
Henry Baker
on my x220 I just need to install non-free firmware
Jack Perry
Hush, child
Wyatt Moore
Hi, this is Predesh from Google. Would you be interested in working for us?
Oliver Butler
Underrated post
>I keep around a $10 USB wireless adapter that doesn't need firmware for initial install on laptops. If I have it plugged in on first boot, fw_update picks up the firmware for the builtin card automatically. Saves having to take apart the laptop to swap cards.
Good thinking, 99
Thomas Phillips
>he doesn't know SSDs have builtin garbage collector and trim is useless feature unless on 1st gen SSD which only idiot would buy
Dylan Gutierrez
Oh he knows. It's the same guy who shitposts in every BSD thread.
Brayden Mitchell
bsd is a meme
1.
Dominic Gutierrez
Damn, that is some commitment. Nice job
Luke Green
you didn't need tails for any of that just run pcidump or check dmesg in openbsd to check wireless card or if you're extra lazy just run fw_update -a and see if it works
Elijah Bell
Fuck off, zoomer
Elijah Wright
He still would've needed another net interface to run fw_update. Either ethernet or wireless/ethernet USB adapter.
Gabriel Rivera
I do installation and first boot with fw_update with ethernet. At least ramdisk already uses the firmware so you don't need to go through this on every base system update.
Jack Ward
who tries to install openbsd without an ethernet port?
Caleb Ross
Why would you want your server to have wireless?
Leo Diaz
Lots of new laptops need a dongle.
Jose Moore
whoever's wifi works on install disk
Lincoln White
absolutely childs play compared to what i went through with boutique 8 in 8 out unsupported firewire soundcard ... a 5 year journey
William Perez
>>I keep around a $10 USB wireless adapter that doesn't need firmware for initial install on laptops
i just use my iphone internet tethered over usb cable ... i have never had it not work on any system
Dylan Powell
Dmesg didn't show anything about the wireless adapter that wasn't supported. That's why I thought that maybe the wireless adapter was physically broken/missing. Booting into another OS confirmed that the wireless adapter was functional.
Christopher Lee
Yes, I did have an ethernet connection the entire time.
Jeremiah Stewart
so what was wrong? was it actually just missing the firmware all along?
Luis Stewart
The model of ethernet adapter wasn't supported by OpenBSD. The OS wouldn't detect it.