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Date:      Sun, 7 Feb 2016 23:14:37 -0800
From:      NGie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Macbook donation (wireless needs fixing)
Message-ID:  <A8917526-288A-469B-BA96-2C47BE97A588@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <56B82A2F.7050009@freebsd.org>
References:  <56B64086.4090806@freebsd.org> <CAJm42380G94rCsrKUghUVuw7m3UKo1zAXdLoKvLMk0uy5OO6Sw@mail.gmail.com> <56B7BA1E.2020407@freebsd.org> <CAJm423-6YnHtaB1n51jdC8pFvSEOCEjsYYsQGQgnCOJR0fnydw@mail.gmail.com> <56B82A2F.7050009@freebsd.org>

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> On Feb 7, 2016, at 21:39, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> 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?

Not sure of the details, but it looks like no:

NO_PACKAGE=3D     this is a modified version of a restricted firmware

:(=E2=80=A6
-Ngie=



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