Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> writes: > Has anyone tried out NetBSD on an Intel Macbook Pro? I installed 9.3 > on an external SSD on a 2012 model. It's running fairly well, just > with two issues: Older is relative :-) I have NetBSD running on MB/MBP from 2006, 2008, and I think 2010. I think the 2008 MBP has an athn that sort of works, and the others I cannot use builtin wifi. > 1. The integrated Wi-Fi is not recognized at all. Should there be a > driver for it? I tried the first 10_BETA build but there was no > difference. I just put a build of netbsd-10 onto a MacBookPro5,1 (mid 2010 I think). The Wifi was not recognized; it's a BCM chip and those are known for not having free software drivers. I have stuck a urtwn in USB and that works ok. > 2. Trackpad gestures do not work at all. Basic pointing and clicking > is okay but no two-finger scroll and no right click. I have never tried that. I don't really understand how the gestures work. Do they work on NetBSD on any trackpad? Is there some software layer that takes raw trackpad data and synthesizes them? Is this something that the trackpad does? Does it need to be programmed? Perhaps sniff the wires when it's running macOS, reverse engineer and write a driver? (Not that helpful I know...)
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