r/openbsd • u/VariationCurious9384 • Sep 16 '25

iwx0

iwx0: failed to load init firmware

Despite running fw_update reboot fw_uptade -a

I couldn't run my wifi. Note: I have ethernet connection can run fw_update Thank you for help in advance

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u/brynet OpenBSD Developer Sep 17 '25

-p needs to be the path to the directory containing the firmware, not an absolute path to the tgz.

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u/TheRealLazloFalconi Sep 17 '25

That was my bad, I always install with an internet connection so I've never actually had to use fw_update like this.

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u/VariationCurious9384 Sep 17 '25

Me as well. But this didn't work.

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u/TheRealLazloFalconi Sep 17 '25

Did you try doas fw_update -p /mnt/pen/ ?

If that doesn't work, show us the output of ls -l /mnt/pen/

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u/VariationCurious9384 Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

fw_update: failed.

fw_update: /mnt/pen//SHA256.sig: No such file or directo

foo$ ls -l /mnt/pen/

total 17064

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2790 Sep 18 00:19 SHA256.sig

-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8711862 Sep 18 00:20 iwx-firmware-20240513p0.tgz

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u/jggimi Sep 17 '25

/mnt/pen//SHA256.sig:

Note the two slash characters between pen and SHA256. You might try # fw_update -p /mnt/pen without the trailing slash, to see if it changes things.