Configuring BCM4360 (MacBook Air) on FreeBSD to connect to WiFi

bash_bob

I just installed FreeBSD 12.1 RELEASE on my MacBook Air 13-inch Early 2015, and one of the notable problems is the lack of WiFi due to the bwn kernel module not being loaded. I loaded it and told the /boot/loader.conf to load it at boot, rebooted, and it did not work. I checked ifconfig but only loopback was shown. Output of pciconf -lv says the...

Originally asked by Dvonik on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Good FreeBSD question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Have you taken a look at the manual page for bwn(4) 1 ? It mentions that bwn devices need firmware to be loaded. Installing firmware Firmware for those devices is available as a port called net/bwn-firmware-kmod . Due to license reasons, there is no binary package available for this port via pkg(8) , so it has to be installed from ports(7) by the user with something like: cd /usr/ports/net/bwn-firmware-kmod && make install Please refer to the Using the Ports Collection chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook for more details on how to work with ports. What if I do not have network connection on the...

Full answer by Mateusz Piotrowski: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/595474 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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