Macbook donation (wireless needs fixing)

[Alfred Perlstein]

Thanks Larry. Want a native driver to make it plug and play. 

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> On Feb 6, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Larry Maloney <larry.maloney at hackerdojo.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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