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Driver question: why doesn't FreeBSD for RPI support WiFi yet?

3 points| winlundn | 3 years ago |old.reddit.com

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winlundn|3 years ago

Granted, mostly hobbyists are the ones who have Raspberry Pi's, and those devices have become more expensive since COVID.

It is really bizarre that the FreeBSD org has not written WiFi drivers for the Broadcom chipsets in RPi 3/4. They're still Ethernet-only in terms of networking. The FreeBSD dev community seems to be ignoring the RPI community. WiFi is pretty common these days. Is this happening because BSD is largely aimed at the industrial server market?

qbrass|3 years ago

Broadcom wrote the drivers for Linux and that's good enough for their needs.