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Date:      Tue, 3 Oct 2023 12:42:59 -0700
From:      "Fred G. Finster" <fred@thegalacticzoo.com>
To:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Cc:        fredfinster58@gmail.com, wb7odyfred@yahoo.com, pali.gabor@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Still no support for BCM 43228? Lenovo T430, wifi-box
Message-ID:  <af605189-6aca-0161-ddb5-d2db83136cfa@thegalacticzoo.com>

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Páli Gábor ,  thanks for your help and support of WifiBOX.  It is used 
in the https://t./meGhostBSD community.

WifiBox FreeBSD setup on GhostBSD system,  Use Alpine Linux with Wifi 
driver software https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2576

  Wifibox setup configuration file working 
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2578

*/From:/* Páli Gábor Páli Gábor <pali.gabor_at_gmail.com>
*/Date:/* Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:34:42 UTC

Hi there,

Le lun. 2 oct. 2023 à 17:01, Bjoern A. Zeeb
<bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> a écrit :

> On Mon, 2 Oct 2023, Frog Lu wrote:
> > I searched for a lot of documents through the web and the FreeBSD 
> forums
> > and help pages, but couldn't find any help on configuration for the
> > wireless card broadcom BCM 43228.
> [..] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox might be the best
> solution; not sure which drivers the wifibox-brcm package supports.
> Gabor?

The Internet says that one should try the Broadcom "wl" driver for
this card.  This is not part of the `wifibox-brcm` package.  But the
`net/wifibox-alpine` port has the non-default `XX_DRIVER_WL` option
[1] that one could configure and build manually [2].  By version
`20230926`, I was able to make Broadcom cards work with the `wl`
driver so there is some chance.

Thanks,
Gábor

[1] https://www.freshports.org/net/wifibox-alpine
[2] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port#readme

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  GhostBSD Networking Subtopic 
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewforum.php?f=64
WifiBox FreeBSD setup,  Use Alpine Linux with Wifi driver software 
https://forums.ghostbsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2576

GhostBSD  MATE Desktop download, https://ghostbsd.org/download "latest 
build" version.

You could try GhostBSD via Live Media by booting from a USB flash drive

Then use ethernet cable to connect Internet and  pkg install wifibox on 
your T430,  Share how it goes for you.

You might have to install GhostBSD to an eternal SSD or 128GB USB Flsh 
drive.

I ran GhostBSD for 6 months using a Metal Samsun 128GB USB 3.0 Flash 
drive stick, that I installed GhostBSd using the GBI GhostBSD Install 
utility

I have a t430 Lenovo laptop  with Intel Centrino 6205 wifi,  maybe buy a 
cheap PCI Half Height WIFI Card and install to your T430, replacing the 
BCM43228 card.


-- 
Fred Finster
GhostBSD-Arm64.blogspot.com

-- 
Fred Finster
GhostBSD-Arm64.blogspot.com




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