On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:35:17 +0200,
fr...@lilo.org wrote:
> 
> How does fw_update install the drivers?

It downloads firmware from http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/
and installs it as package in system.

> How does it know which driver is missing on the system?

It checks patterns from /usr/share/misc/firmware_patterns which maps
firmware to a pattern in dmesg.

> All these questions to install the drivers manually (offline)

You may download it by hand and install as fw_update /path/to/firmware.tgz

-- 
wbr, Kirill

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