fwget(8)

fwget8

Install firmware packages for the running system

Usage

fwget [-n] [-v] [subsystem]

Overview

The fwget utility can be used to detect and install firmware packages for devices present on a running system.

The options are as follows:

-n

Dry run, only show needed packages

-v

Be more verbose

subsystem

Hardware subsystem(s), default is all supported subsystems. Space separated hardware subsystems, accepts pci and usb

Caveats

This utility currently only supports the pci(4) and usb(4) subsystems.

Releases

9 releases since FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE; the text changed 2 times.

  1. 14.0–14.2
  2. 14.3–14.5
  3. 15.0–16.0

History

The fwget utility first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

Authors

The fwget utility and this manual page were written by Emmanuel Vadot ⟨[email protected]⟩ for Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.