Having had downloaded, dd'ed the i386 iso to pendrive, booted it up, I find no wifi (nor firmware) or set up apps within the O/S.

Is the intention to not supply & configure wifi now the way ahead for GhostBSD?

Wifi set up along with a pre configured desktop were the strong points, & a reason to recommend trying GhostBSD.

What is firmware you need? I dropped bwi and bwn since we use pkg to build packages.

Oh also note that the beta 2 is not officially released. the image downloaded Was only for debugging purposes.

Glad to hear that.