On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0200, Wayne Oliver wrote:
> But the biggest issue I had with installing OpenBSD on my Macbook (5,1) was
> the wireless adapter.
> Blasted BCM43xx, and there is good chance you have the same one.

Unlikely to be supported in the near term, if ever, unfortunately.

No hardware docs, and the BSD-licensed vendor-provided driver[1] in
Linux is a massive unreadable mess of magic numbers the size of OpenBSD's
entire wifi stack (look at phy/phy_n.c for laughs). Which effectively
means only the vendor can maintain this driver without unreasonable effort.

A supported USB wifi stick can be used as a workaround until this
situation improves. Or try swapping out the card inside the laptop
with one that works.

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac

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