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Re: "Finally the new Broadcom WiFi card arrived for my old..."
Ah. That clarifies it. Thank you!
Jun 09 · 11 days ago
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] · Jun 15 at 19:49:
Correct WiFi card arrived, chipset recognised properly, fw_update from USB successful, now sending on my dmesg to OpenBSD, God willing! 🥳
🐐 drh3xx [mod] · Jun 16 at 18:16:
great news @requiem :)
yaaaay, so glad for you.
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!