While it is too late for 14.3-R point people at fwget(8) to install
firmware if the driver cannot find any.
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I keep wondering if pointing people to iwlwifi.4 man page might be better or if wording should be different.
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LGTM with or without the existing linux-firmware message left in place
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Is the "On FreeBSD" part redundant?
Yes that is a good point. If we leave the linux-firmware link in place then it makes some sense to mention it (to make it clear that it isn't a leftover message from the upstream driver. If we remove the Linux link then we could also remove the On FreeBSD.
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I initially thought to keep the git.k.o link as one could always just grab the firmware file from there and drop it in /boot/firmware these days.
Might sometimes be easier to rescue oneself with a usb pen drive just grabbing files directly compared to downloading a package and copying it over and installing/extracting it possibly running into pkg bootstrap issues, etc (and not everyone knows tar just works as well).
I don't know. I am too deep into the materials and too little user.
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We should maybe put that in the handbook or manual. We can always iterate on it later.