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From the link: "Note: The inbuilt WiFi chip is not natively supported by FreeBSD, so you will need to (temporarily) use a USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle, or (as I
by bxparks 6mo ago
From the link: "Note: The inbuilt WiFi chip is not natively supported by FreeBSD, so you will need to (temporarily) use a USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle, or (as I will explain) copy some files from a different system to the Macbook. You could also just transplant a different chip into the system."
You say "works perfectly". I do not think it means what you think it means.
To be fair, Linux also has trouble with the Broadcom chip, the driver needs to be installed as a separate step on most distros.
- skydhash 6mo agoI think the intersection between BSD users and people who will buy a dongle or use Ethernet is a perfect circle.
- wolvoleo 6mo ago> Broadcom Here's the real problem. It's sad how a company that spawned the raspberry pi in earlier times got so evil so quickly.
- shrubble 6mo agoEvery Raspberry Pi ships with a closed source OS, ThreadX, that boots Linux, BTW.
- justin66 6mo agoIt's MIT licensed now, which isn't particularly useful when it comes to Pi (there's some Broadcom crap in that boot loader so it won't be open sourced) but otherwise is kind of interesting. https://github.com/eclipse-threadx https://github.com/eclipse-threadx
- bityard 6mo agoBroadcom (and to a lesser extent, Realtek) devices had always been anywhere between hit-or-miss and completely unworkable on Linux, LONG before Raspberry Pi came around.
- trinix912 6mo agoMy experience too. Sometimes I did manage to eventually get their cards working under Linux after pulling some proprietary firmware blobs.
- sausagefeet 6mo agoI imagine that is because modern Broadcom is a different Broadcom, Avago bought and took the name in 2016.
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- fhn 6mo agoRaspberryPi Foundation spawned the raspberry pi and used a Broadcom SOC.
- opan 6mo agoI always saw Broadcom as evil, and saw Raspberry Pi as just reusing cheap parts from set top boxes or similar, with all the proprietary stuff that that comes with.
- mmsc 6mo ago> You say "works perfectly". I do not think it means what you think it means. Copying some files from a different machine is not that burdensome. The point is, it works.
- marssaxman 6mo agoBy that logic, every piece of software ever made can be said to work perfectly in every situation, because there is always some amount of additional work which could be done to make up for its native deficiencies.
- opan 6mo agoThat's quite the leap. The work is already done, they just can't/won't ship the driver in base, right? Isn't it comparable to installing Debian and needing to load in non-free drivers separately?
- bxparks 6mo agoI was mostly objecting to the "perfectly" part. And I couldn't resist making a Princess Bride reference for amusement.
- emptybits 6mo agoI assume this is what is meant: | Works Perfectly | Mostly Works | Has Lots Of Bugs -------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------- Default Install | | | -------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------- With Add-Ons | X | | -------------------+-----------------+--------------+----------------- Major Config Work | | | i.e. Declare its working quality after the install is done. The install may take multiple steps. (In this case, copying some files over, apparently.)