alt Hacker NewsFrom 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.
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I think the intersection between BSD users and people who will buy a dongle or use Ethernet is a perfect circle.
> 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.
> 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.