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Rewriting MediaTek MT7921 Linux driver for FreeBSD
New to BSD, coming from Linux. My laptop (Asus FX706LI) uses the MediaTek MT7921. Although I've never installed linux on this laptop, I know the driver is in Linux 5.12 and subsequent kernels. I am to ...
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Configuring BCM4360 (MacBook Air) on FreeBSD to connect to WiFi
I just installed FreeBSD 12.1 RELEASE on my MacBook Air 13-inch Early 2015, and one of the notable problems is the lack of WiFi due to the bwn kernel module not being loaded. I loaded it and told the /...
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Get started at writing device drivers for FreeBSD
I just decided to give FreeBSD a try last week and found out that my wireless card (Ralink rt3290) isn't supported.
I am good at C - and I know I have to for this task - and am very fond of Assembly, ...
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Wifi in FreeBSD Live USB
After using Linux for quite some time now I want to try out FreeBSD. I created a bootable USB stick and want to play around a bit in the live CD mode. The first problem I encounter is that I don't ...
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Getting Wi-Fi on FreeBSD on a PPC Mac
How do I get Wi-Fi on FreeBSD running on a PowerPC eMac? ifconfig lists fwe0, gem0 and lo0 only. The adapter is Broadcom BCM43xx. Following this guide didn't give any Wi-Fi. Also:
If a wireless ...
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freebsd Broadcom 4322 wireless card issue
I thought it would be fun to try out FreeBSD and had an old MacBook Pro (13 “ mid 2009) which I could screw around with. Everything was going pretty good until I tried to connect to my wifi network. I’...
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FreeBSD - wireless cards not picked up
I am attempting to get wireless working on FreeBSD 11.1 and not having much luck. Dmesg indicates it sees the USB wireless adapter; however, ifconfig and sysctl net.wlan.devices indicate nothing.
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Cannot access the captive portal in FreeBSD 12-CURRENT
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I'm trying to connect to an open WiFi with a machine running FreeBSD 12-CURRENT.
Normally, I run wifi-start.sh (see below) whenever I want to connect to the Internet. It works with WPA ...
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FreeBSD cannot use WiFi with BCM4360 on MacBook Air
I've installed FreeBSD 11.0 on my MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015). However, when configuring the network, no list of network interfaces is shown to me. Instead, I was brought to the Choose IPv4 ...
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Finding and setting up wifi in FreeBSD 12.0
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 100S 14'' IBR-14'' Intel Celeron CPU N3060 @ 1.60GHz, 32GB SSD, 4GB RAM, but I am both at a loss what wifi I have there, as there are several different generations, and how ...
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having trouble connecting to wireless on FreeBSD 11 on RasPi 2
I have everything setup. I can see the USB network card in dmesg. But it won't associate with AP/SSID. It shows everything else but the ssid won't work. I'm not sure if the wifi card will work....
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WiFi problems (Atheros driver) with FreeBSD 11
With FreeBSD 10.3 my Atheros card worked fine and showed up as /dev/ath0. Now with FreeBSD 11 this is no longer the case, though the module is loaded and it seems the system recognizes the card:
root@...
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Configure wireless network on FreeBSD: router shows wireless device is connected, but cannot ping
My issue looks similar to this one.
I configure my Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g device on FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE like this:
sudo kldload if_bwn
sudo kldload bwn_v4_ucode
sudo kldload bwn_v4_lp_ucode
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RT3592BC8 Bluetooth and FreeBSD
Several years ago (in 2008) I purchased a HP ProBook which I now want to sell because I got a newer laptop in January 2016. The ProBook is a Celeron Dual Core with 4GB of RAM and 250GB HDD. I have two ...
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FreeBSD Broadcom BCM43225 Setup
I'm new to FreeBSD, it's working fine one my Laptop. Only problem is, that my wifi device isn't in ifconfig so I can't use it. I tried a lot of reading but I couldn't get it to work. How can I get my ...
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