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sunshine-o 7 hours ago

It's just `pkg install wifibox` ... The only dependencies are bhyve and socat.

It is actually a very simple and elegant solution to an horrible problem.

Lammy 6 hours ago | parent [-]

And it won't even be necessary for many people since a lot of work has gone into FreeBSD's Wi-Fi support recently: https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/improving-and-debugging-f...

Personally even as a FreeBSD fanperson I wouldn't want to rely on wifibox no matter how elegant it is to use. It would forever irritate the “omg ugly hack” part of my brain lol

I installed FreeBSD 14.3 on my Framework Laptop 12 and the stock Intel AX211 Wi-Fi card Just Worked™ out of the box in FreeBSD 14.3 after a `fwget` to download the proprietary firmware blobs (removed from base between 14.2 and 14.3, FYI) while USB-tethered to my Android with a simple `dhclient ue0`:

- https://i.imgur.com/vulqdvc.jpeg

- https://i.imgur.com/S6OcWMA.jpeg