A network problem stopped my installation process.

[mbzadegan]

Hi all,

I boot with FreeBSD-15 (current edition) memstick installer, but it could not find my wireless network ethernet during the FreeBSD installation process. It is based on an Intel chipset, due to my attached picture.

Now, I have 2 questions:

1. Does booting with a memstick installer image still need the internet for installation?
2. Is there any way to identify my intel Wireless adapter to FreeBSD? Or should it be reported as a bug?

Thank you

 

[nxjoseph]

Hi,

I boot with FreeBSD-15 (current edition)

Is there a specific reason why you don't use a RELEASE version?

1. Does booting with a memstick installer image still need the internet for installation?

If it's mini-memstick, then you need internet, if it's normal memstick, you don't need internet, source tarballs are included.

2. Is there any way to identify my intel Wireless adapter to FreeBSD? Or should it be reported as a bug?

The screenshot is missing some text after "at devic". Do you see anything in output of this command: # sysctl net.wlan.devices? pciconf is also your friend. You can find out if your WiFi chipset is supported or not in the installation process.

 

[ShelLuser]

CURRENT and STABLE are not what their names might imply: they're not reliable, far from it. SO when you run into issues with them.. either report those (and find a solution for never paid out bonus points) OR... get a release like NX mentioned above me.

Everything other than 'release' is at your own risk so to speak.

 

[mbzadegan]

Thank you for all of your notifications, but I'm not new with FreeBSD, and I'm interested in contributing to FreeBSD with the current edition. I also checked the stable edition and found this installer bug again.
I reported this bug here:

286079 – Installer problem on memstick image still needs internet. (FreeBSD-15-Current)

bugs.freebsd.org

 

[nxjoseph]

I am aware of that you can't go back in the installer and reselect things if you made a mistake, in these cases, i just reboot back to the live medium again.

 

[T-Daemon]

I am aware of that you can't go back in the installer and reselect things if you made a mistake, in these cases, i just reboot back to the live medium again.

No reboot is necessary in case to restart the installation, just hit Ctrl + C anytime. This will open a installation restart menu [1]. In case the installation menu was terminated, execute bsdinstall in terminal.

[1]

 

[nxjoseph]

No reboot is necessary in case to restart the installation, just hit Ctrl + C anytime, this will open a installation restart menu

Yeah, I know that but I always saw my previous choices back, they weren't being reset.

execute bsdinstall in terminal.

I believe there is one another way of going back too, just running # /etc/rc.local from shell.

 

[T-Daemon]

Yeah, I know that but I always saw my previous choices back, they weren't being reset.

That's correct, those previous choices remain set, but they should be reversible.

You can always delete all those /tmp/bsdinstall_* directories where the menu guided configurations from earlier installation attempts are stored, and restart installation menu.

I believe there is one another way of going back too, just running # /etc/rc.local from shell.

Yes, that's another possibility.