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On 2/7/16 4:24 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Oh, strange, let me see why my macbook4,1 doesn't work with this... maybe
>> it's just not loaded by default?
> You'll need the firmware contained in ports/net/bwi-firmware-kmod.
This can't be part of the base distribution?

-Alfred