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Interesting. How did you find FreeBSD less Apple-laptop-friendly than OpenBSD? Did OpenBSD port the Broadcom Wi-Fi driver from Linux?

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Suspend/resume seems to just work (at least when using X11) out of the box. I've had issues getting FreeBSD to work properly in the past, but maybe 12.0-CURRENT works better these days.

Sadly, no Broadcom support :-(

What are you doing for network access? Some sort of dongle-based connection?

I use an "Edimax EW-7811Un" (aka the N150-nano) usb wifi adapter. Only costs 8 USD on Amazon.

It uses the urtwn driver in OpenBSD and FreeBSD. It works...ok. Super small and a handy built in blue-LED so you know when it's powered and connected. I tend to leave it plugged in even when I reboot into macOS because it's pretty much ignored there due to lack of out of box macOS kernel module I believe.

I'm curious what "okay" means for you. I've got one of those tiny Edimax wifi USB adapters and it is intolerably slow. Is there some sort of performance tuning I'm missing?

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