Macbook donation (wireless needs fixing)

[Larry Maloney]

I know I installed FreeBSD on a MacBook, circa 2010-2011. (KiputerOS)

I could swear I had the Wifi working with NDIS.  (Might have been Broadcom, but not sure)

That would have been 8.x something.

/Larry
> On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:37 PM, Mark Tinguely <marktinguely at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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