FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
    • 67370

    FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

    Phoronix: FreeBSD On Laptops Effort Gets Proof-Of-Concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi Working

    In addition to the FreeBSD Foundation funding work on s0ix sleep state support as part of their initiative to improve FreeBSD's support for modern laptops, they have also been funding work on a number of other objectives, including better WiFi driver coverage. A milestone now being achieved for 2025 is getting a proof-of-concept Intel 802.11 a/b/g WiFi driver support working for this BSD operating system...

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  • lamka02sk
    Phoronix Member
    • Oct 2020
    • 52

    #2
    I don't know much about FreeBSD and I certainly didn't know it is a time machine

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    • kylew77
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2017
      • 1135

      #3
      VERY VERY Interesting, last I had heard FreeBSD wasn't planning on importing iwx for intel WiFi cards like OpenBSD did, instead wanting to go with in my opinion buggy wrapper around the linux Iwlwifi instead. I for one had ENDLESS Problems with Iwlwifi and virtually none with iwx in OpenBSD. Good to see the superior tech with the race, but at the same time a bit sad because being able to use Linux drivers would have saved a great deal of effort. Kudos to FreeBSD though.

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      • kpedersen
        Senior Member
        • Jul 2012
        • 2710

        #4
        Forum software being odd. (won't let me post a more detailed message). Just throws an 403 error popup. Oh well.

        Simplified post below.

        FreeBSD already has iwlwifi(4) as a compat layer that supports this card (and at higher speeds). It was a bit crashy so maybe that is why they decided to also port iwx(4)?
        Last edited by kpedersen; 03 February 2025, 07:35 PM.

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        • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
          Senior Member
          • Jul 2020
          • 1591

          #5
          Gotta start somewhere. I like the built in ZFS / boot environment support from FreeBSD.

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          • zexelon
            Senior Member
            • May 2019
            • 760

            #6
            YES! Lets live like its 2008 again!

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            • HEX0
              Phoronix Member
              • Jan 2020
              • 92

              #7
              I thought that FreeBSD was one of the better BSDs for laptop use when compared to OpenBSD and others.

              Sidenote: I was travelling on a car ferry from UK to France. One of the glass doors inside the ferry had a ticket scanner but on the display I noticed console output.

              I was amazed to find out that the door opening mechanism was running OpenBSD. It appeared as OpenBSD had failed to boot rendering the door very secure as nobody could scan and enter. The solution was to walk around the hallway and use a dumb door to bypass it

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              • klapaucius
                Senior Member
                • Mar 2015
                • 163

                #8
                Originally posted by HEX0 View Post
                I thought that FreeBSD was one of the better BSDs for laptop use when compared to OpenBSD and others.
                So did I. The last time I tried FreeBSD on the bare metal, in 2020, on a Lenovo Yoga from 2014, the wifi worked well.
                With OpenBSD instead, I have old memories of overheating due to the lack of frequency throttling, lack of multiprocessor support, a relatively low and outdated number of ports. But then we're speaking of AD 2005 or something.

                Sidenote: I was travelling on a car ferry from UK to France. One of the glass doors inside the ferry had a ticket scanner but on the display I noticed console output.

                I was amazed to find out that the door opening mechanism was running OpenBSD. It appeared as OpenBSD had failed to boot rendering the door very secure as nobody could scan and enter. The solution was to walk around the hallway and use a dumb door to bypass it
                Surely it wasn't OpenBSD's fault!

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                • mcirsta
                  Senior Member
                  • Sep 2011
                  • 144

                  #9
                  Any chance to get Voodoo Banshee support ? I really want to play Quake 3

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                  • Alexmitter
                    Senior Member
                    • Mar 2019
                    • 1135

                    #10
                    FreeBSD is one of my favorite Retro OS. A great look into what using Unix meant before Linux came around. Install it today and its just like using a 90s unix workstation with all its weirdness.

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