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WiFi - doesn't work, you're going to run a VM with linux and pass Wi-Fi device there or deal with 802.11g speed if card even works at all. GPU - if you're okay
by 0x457 4y ago
WiFi - doesn't work, you're going to run a VM with linux and pass Wi-Fi device there or deal with 802.11g speed if card even works at all.
GPU - if you're okay with Nvidia blob, then it's all good. If not, then I hope you're okay with RX580 era AMD.
Bluetooth...I don't think people in community know what it is because stack was broken for probably a decade.
Consumer NICs sometimes don't work out of the box.
It's very unfriendly for consumer, which is what I liked, but at one point I had enough and switched to Linux. Still running FreeBSD on home server, tho because i'm too lazy to switch it...
- rgrmrts 4y agoHave you tried iwlwifi?
- 0x457 4y agoYes, it works exactly like I've described: While iwlwifi supports all 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax the compatibility code currently only supports 802.11 a/b/g modes. Support for 802.11 n/ac is to come. 802.11ax and 6Ghz support are planned. We will get wider IPv6 adoption before 802.11n works on FreeBSD in stable way.
- rgrmrts 4y agoAh, my bad -- I misread the 'or' as 'and'. Agreed, lack of n/ac/ax has been an issue! Especially when cloning large repos I didn't realize how much I take >500mbps on wifi for granted.
- nix23 4y agoYou can use WifiBox[1], being a user of FreeBSD myself (Laptop, Workstation and many servers) it would be nice to have "native" ac/ax. [1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
- 0x457 4y agoYes, I've mentioned that solution. It isn't really "FreeBSD support wireless" if I have to run a VM for it, is it?