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wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSD
11 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 2 stories, 9 comments · first 2022-01-24 · latest 2026-04-09
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It's only complicated once, though -- at initial setup. And that setup part can be largely automated: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox (The computer itself doesn't care much about the complexity. It's a computer.)
comment by ssl-3 · 2026-04-09 · in Top laptops to use with FreeBSD -
…support is ok if you check first on https://bsd-hardware.info/ - The wifi thing is no problem with https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox Cons: - You won't be able to mount/read your LUKS drives from your Linux era. - Sometime very…
comment by sunshine-o · 2025-11-12 · in A brief look at FreeBSD -
…hacks routing through a Linux VM[1]. It works rather well but it is honestly a bit clunky. [1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
comment by clan · 2025-11-12 · in A brief look at FreeBSD -
…not. There is no debating this at this point in time. And to be clear, I'm referencing wifibox ( https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox ) which has been written about extensively and exists to work around FreeBSDs well known poor wifi…
comment by Klonoar · 2025-03-31 · in Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024) -
There is also wifi box if you want to use a slightly cursed solution that seems to work well enough. https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
comment by erk__ · 2023-05-14 · in FreeBSD 13.2 on ThinkPad T14 (GEN1) -
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Wifibox: Use Linux to drive your wireless card on FreeBSDstory by d-s · 2023-04-07 · 0 comments
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…FreeBSD myself (Laptop, Workstation and many servers) it would be nice to have "native" ac/ax. [1] https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
comment by nix23 · 2023-01-05 · in DragonFly BSD 6.4 -
I hardly can take this as valid answer until https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox exists and in active use by FreeBSD users.
comment by CoolCold · 2022-11-07 · in Migrate from Linux to FreeBSD -
…what wifibox does on FreeBSD (though I believe the reason is more for drivers than for isolation): https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
comment by craftkiller · 2022-08-02 · in Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5544-1 Atheros ath9k wireless device driver -
Just run your wifi driver in a Linux vm. https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
comment by tedunangst · 2022-05-16 · in FreeBSD 13.1 -
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FreeBSD Wifibox – Linux Bhyve VM to Support WiFi Card with PCI Passthroughstory by vermaden · 2022-01-24 · 0 comments