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I am seeing similar issues, but with different libraries causing the link errors. (I'm getting problems with libkldap and libkabc)

I definitely have an interest in improving the hardware support on Apple platforms. As for time well... I've been supposedly working on EFI support under GSoC, except I'm backlogged there too, due to job searching/interviewing, and now I have to move and start a new job. I have plans on...

The atp driver should work on a machine that old. You may also be able to get into the firmware console. I forget the actual key combination, but older macs had a key combination you could press at boot time to get into the firmware console (this was disabled I believe after the 2 series). To...

Just letting anyone who was discussing bcm4322 support before, I am starting to have more free time now. I'm currently writing another driver, but that shouldn't take too long. I should be able to pick up where I left off.

I'm a little confused as to just what drivers exist on the linux side. The closed-source Broadcom driver is apparently called wl. In addition there's a completely open-source driver called b43, and an older one called bw. It seems that b43 has N-PHY support (the newer cards, like the 4322)...

I'm in a semester-of-death right now. I will get back to all this when it blows over.

I read somewhere that EFI boot on i386/amd64 has apparently been restarted as part of 9-CURRENT development. According to Rui Paolo's blog, he apparently had developed an EFI loader at some point which can load an ELF kernel, but does not boot it. In any case, FreeBSD on a MacBook has become a...

From what I've seen of the Broadcom linux driver, it seems possible to reverse-engineer something. All the driver's logic seems to be contained in the closed-source object file. Its interface with the kernel seems to be some kind of custom OS-independent layer built by the broadcom developers...

Theoretically yes. However, ndisgen seems to have trouble with the drivers I'm using (the Apple Bootcamp drivers for windows). When I looked at disassembled output, the device probe function seems to always returns an error code. Sure enough, it won't attach when I load the .ko. I'm guessing...

Can the FreeBSD kernel support Linux network driver interfaces and kernel APIs directly? (I'd be rather surprised if it can)

I've been looking more at the Linux driver. The closed source .o file only has a handful of undefined symbols in it, about half of which are basic C functions (memcpy, strlen, etc.). My plan was/is to to reverse-compile the .o to get information which could be used to extend the bwn driver...

I've been out of FreeBSD for a while, and I haven't done any work on wireless drivers since 2006. However, I did help out a group with porting a driver to linux on a handheld device by disassembling the windows drivers and figuring out how they worked. I don't have alot of free time, but I...

If you're talking about this driver: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php It's not exactly open-source. It's a bunch of open-source wrapper code that uses a closed source .o file. It shouldn't be too hard to disassemble and analyze, though.

I was unable to get it working with a GPT partition, and I got it working only by creating an MBR. My understanding of things is this: Apple's firmware looks for an HFS+ partition, and attempts to boot it. HFS+ has a specific "blessed" file, which is expected to be an EFI application that...

I've never done any work with FreeBSD wireless drivers, so I was testing the waters to see if someone with more experience might be interested. In any case, I know there's a Linux driver, which seems to be C code that calls into a closed-source .o file. Disassembling closed-source drivers to...

Is anyone interested in/already working on getting these drivers to work with BCM 4322 chipsets (the kind that come with MacBooks)? I'm potentially interested in taking this on as a side-project, but I'm not familiar with these drivers.

Did this project ever get approved as a Summer of Code project? I'm trying to get FreeBSD running on a MacBook Pro, so I'd like to see a proper EFI/GPT system as opposed to the current BIOS/MBR solution.