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English Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: larzeni on February 13, 2019, 08:14:09 pm
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Dear All,
I'm a linux seasoned veteran, but a opnsense/bsd newbie, so I beg your pardon for my question.
I'd like to install opnsense (OPNsense-19.1-OpenSSL-vga-amd64.img.bz2) on an ARMORTEC J1900 Bay Trail mini PC (3 LAN, 1 WIFI).
After many attempts, I was unable to install opnsense directly on this machine, so I placed a hard disk on another pc, installed there, and then restored the hard disk in the mini pc. Hooray, now it boots ;D
... well, at boot the system hanged on the infamous "Booting" prompt, but I managed to overcome the issue using the "kern.vty=sc" parameter.
So far, so good: the system show all network interfaces, and I could connect and manage it using LAN/Web interface.
At this point, I would like to set up the wifi, but evenif the iwn interface shows in the GUI, I was not able to make it work.
My guess is that, since I installed the system on another PC, maybe the installer did not setup the firmware for the wifi card; or, it could not be provided by opnsense for the intel license issues.
Anyway, I googled around and found that the firwmare are readily available in BSD, the can be downloaded from
http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/6.4/iwn-firmware-5.11p1.tgz
and that I should use fw_update to download and install in the mini PC.
Now the problems:
1) I didn't find the fw_update command in opnsense.
2) I tried pkg search fw_update, but I was not able to find in the repository so I cannot install this command
3) I downloaded the firmware package and tried to install with pgk add, but it complains that there is no manifest.
4) I understand that the "reccommended" setup of opnsense is to avoid internal wifi, but since it is already there and that it is supported from bsd, I guess it should work... ;)
So, my questions are:
a) Did I broke the wifi autodetection with my installation procedure?
b) Do I need this firmware to make the wifi work, or not?
c) Should I install fw_update and, if yes, where can I find it?
d) should I install the firmware manually? How can I do this? Where should firmware files be placed? I spotted /boot/firmware and /usr/share/firmware... should I use one of them or another location?
Your faithfully :'(,
lazeni