Do i need to worry about wifi drivers when installing freebsd?

[imnotelonmuskiswear]

I had problems with a lot of linux distros related to missing wifi drivers that are a pain in the butt or near impossible to install, will i need to install wifi drivers first before installing freebsd?

 

[SirDice]

You should find out what the brand and model of your wireless card is. Then we can check if it's supported or not.

 

[zsolt]

you should install FreeBSD first then the wifi drivers

 

[JozanOfAstora]

will i need to install wifi drivers first before installing freebsd?

You can't really install drivers before the OS tho! You might want to check this before installing: hardware compatibility list

 

[imnotelonmuskiswear]

You can't really install drivers before the OS tho! You might want to check this before installing: hardware compatibility list

i don't see the realtek rtl8723be wifi adapter listed there, is it not supported?

 

[SirDice]

i don't see the realtek rtl8723be wifi adapter listed there, is it not supported?

Not supported as far as I can tell.

 

[grahamperrin]

… realtek rtl8723be …

Alongside a handful of detected failures, there's one detected success (2020-07-28) with what was then FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE:

<https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=4cfc4cff49&d=FreeBSD#pci:10ec-b723-103c-81c1>