Hello All,
I have a lenovo 120s-11iap laptop which I am attempting to install FreeBSD on. The laptop has no ethernet jack so I was hoping during installation that my wireless device would be discovered so that I could connect to my network. However when I attempt to configure an IP4 address, nothing is found. Post install, "sysctl net.wlan.devices" returns nothing.
I have tested FreeBSD 11.2 and once that did not work I thought that maybe the latest development version (12 alpha 8) might have more up to date drivers but this also failed to detect my wireless hardware.
I take it that this is due to the wireless device having no opensource driver available? In which case, is there anything I can do to install a GUI? Are there FreeBSD downloads available containing non-free binary wireless drives similar to the Debian non-free firmware releases?
I had a read through the FreeBSD manual (which is excellent) but the wireless networking section mainly deals with configuration as opposed to options for non-free firmware support.
I have also ordered a USB Ethernet adapter from Amazon as a last resort so hopefully this works if all else fails. GhostBSD might be an option but the last time I checked there was no way to install with full disk encryption.
Appreciate if anyone has any helpful tips I can try.
Thanks!
I have a lenovo 120s-11iap laptop which I am attempting to install FreeBSD on. The laptop has no ethernet jack so I was hoping during installation that my wireless device would be discovered so that I could connect to my network. However when I attempt to configure an IP4 address, nothing is found. Post install, "sysctl net.wlan.devices" returns nothing.
I have tested FreeBSD 11.2 and once that did not work I thought that maybe the latest development version (12 alpha 8) might have more up to date drivers but this also failed to detect my wireless hardware.
I take it that this is due to the wireless device having no opensource driver available? In which case, is there anything I can do to install a GUI? Are there FreeBSD downloads available containing non-free binary wireless drives similar to the Debian non-free firmware releases?
I had a read through the FreeBSD manual (which is excellent) but the wireless networking section mainly deals with configuration as opposed to options for non-free firmware support.
I have also ordered a USB Ethernet adapter from Amazon as a last resort so hopefully this works if all else fails. GhostBSD might be an option but the last time I checked there was no way to install with full disk encryption.
Appreciate if anyone has any helpful tips I can try.
Thanks!