Macbook donation (wireless needs fixing)

[Mark Tinguely]

Hey Alfred, it is a nice offer.

Let's not set some kind person up for failure. What should a potential
volunteer (1-2-3, not me!) want to know about the chip on the mac laptops?
A simple web search shows the existing Broadcom BCM43XX driverS don't work
with Mac laptops. What do we know?

Mark
On Feb 6, 2016 12:51 PM, "Alfred Perlstein" <alfred at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> So now I have a few macbook laptops, they would be really great to run
> FreeBSD except that the wifi isn't supported.
>
> The macbooks have a broadcom BCM43xx chip inside of it for wifi.
>
> Is anyone interested in a *free* (to keep) laptop(s) in exchange for
> finishing this driver?
>
> Getting FreeBSD running on older mac hardware would open up a pretty large
> niche of laptops that are starting to get on the second use market.
>
> Please let me know, I can drop the laptop off anywhere in the SF bay area,
> or possibly toss it into a USPS/UPS box and send it to you.
>
> My only ask is that after 3 months, if the driver isn't somewhat working
> you return it so that it can be donated to a charity supporting the
> homeless.
>
> thanks!
> -Alfred
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