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OpenBSD will download your wifi firmware during first boot (post-install) if there is a configured internet connection (i.e. ethernet).

• microcolonel 7y ago
  A lot of Linux distros just ship a lot of this firmware, not expecting to be litigated against for it; and it seems to work out.
  • petecox 7y ago
    c.f. Debian, which has a policy to exclude non-free firmware from its installation media. The onus is on the user to themselves supply the firmware. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch06s04.html.en
• sogubsys 7y ago
  You're correct. My complaint was about installation time. I thought there was an instance where I saw all the access points somehow during the installer, but unsure how I did that... and I couldn't replicate it. I suspected that I had wired ethernet configured, and then the installer downloaded firmware to configure wireless? It was just a guess, I didn't look more into it.
• flukus 7y ago
  Is there an easy to use alternative? Less and less laptops are coming with ethernet ports.