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Re: "Finally the new Broadcom WiFi card arrived for my old..."
Sorry to hear things didn't go to plan for you again. Hope you can replace the card and give it another crack soon.
Jun 08 · 8 days ago
💀 requiem [OP] · Jun 08 at 15:17:
Thanks! I ordered another one again... At least I'll have a lot of spare parts to sell on via eBay... Excited that there is now full OpenBSD support for Wayland too.
🐐 drh3xx [mod] · Jun 08 at 15:37:
I thought wayland was still a work in progress. Have I missed some news?
💀 requiem [OP] · Jun 08 at 16:03:
See here:
— "Wayland 1.23 Released With OpenBSD Support"
@requiem those names sure are confusing 😅 I guess it's not so weird that you got it wrong so often. A real bummer though, especially when you got all excited!
@requiem The package called "wayland" is just an IPC library with tools, to make Wayland work the compositors need OpenBSD-compatible alternatives to libinput, udev, etc'
💀 requiem [OP] · Jun 09 at 11:16:
Ah. That clarifies it. Thank you!
when you say 'wifi card' and you intent to use it with notebook, what is that? usb dongle? or something you should disassemble the laptop and connect somewhere? oh you mentioned that's a macbook, i think you won't be able to do something by disassembling.
so you connect something via usb?
i remember that atheros had some chipsets that were working without requiring firmware, and even made by request of openbsd people, and openbsd has open drivers for it.
i have no idea which chipsets work with openbsd, and i know that broadcom devices are usually (at least when i dealt with them) were problematic even under linux.
wish you good luck anyway.
💀 requiem [OP] · Jun 11 at 06:55:
I did disassemble the laptop; with older models you can go far with some specialised screwdrivers. All it needed fortunately was taking off the bottom cover. Then you can unplug the wifi card. My choices are limited because Apple used a proprietary connector, but there are some chipsets which are OK from certain models, it’s just a question of not misreading the exact model…
💀 requiem [OP] · 22 hours ago:
Correct WiFi card arrived, chipset recognised properly, fw_update from USB successful, now sending on my dmesg to OpenBSD, God willing! 🥳
🐐 drh3xx [mod] · 6 minutes ago:
great news @requiem :)
Finally the new Broadcom WiFi card arrived for my old Macbook Air, so I can give OpenBSD a proper go! I am so excited about it. Installed the new card, flashed install75.img, off I go, wish me luck!