On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 4:26 PM Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > > On Aug 09 07:36:00, stu.li...@spacehopper.org wrote: > > On 2023-08-08, Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> wrote: > > > On Aug 07 15:32:05, mill...@openbsd.org wrote: > > >> Your best bet may be to replace the onboard wireless with a card > > >> that is supported by OpenBSD. > > > > > > On Aug 08 09:55:58, stu.li...@spacehopper.org wrote: > > >> Swapping to a different card is likely to give better results (generally > > >> faster, more stable, and able to use the proper antennas in the laptop, > > >> usually around the display, rather than a tiny pcb trace antenna) > > > > > > Exactly. Replace the BCM with Intel or something. > > > Takes about ten minutes and costs peanuts. > > > > Maybe. But these were popular on some HP stuff where changing it often > > requires some dodgy hacked BIOS download which may or may not be safe > > to use. That's why I added the other bit. > > Ah, right: some Thinkpads for example have a whitelist > of allowed wifi chips they will let you booth with ...
I just installed libreboot on one of my Thinkpads, that will take care of that problem while speeding up the boot a lot. But it turns the "Where's my driver?" into a process of physically reflashing an IC with external probes etc, depending on your laptop. https://libreboot.org/docs/bsd/
