Apple MacBook


1. 15.4-inch MacBook Pro (A1398)

Latest tested FreeBSD version

12.0-CURRENT r337003

Installation was straightforward apart from the fact that the Wi-Fi card is not supported.

1.1. Hardware


1.2. Support overview

Component

Status

Details

Graphics

Graphical sessions

(./)

X starts after installing graphics/drm-next-kmod and loading /boot/modules/i915kms.ko. I didn't test if it also works with the i915kms module from the base system.

Backlight (brightness) control

(./)

Controllable with graphics/intel-backlight.

Input devices

Keyboard backlight

{X}

Maybe it requires some kernel modules?

Touchpad

(./)

Works out-of-the-box. The scrolling speed could be better tuned but it's a personal taste.

Media keys

Brightness keys

{X}

Volume keys

{X}

Network

Wi-Fi

{X}

Other

Battery

(./)

Lasts around 4.5h.

Bluetooth

/!\

SD card reader

/!\

Suspend & resume

{X}

Does not wake up after calling zzz(8).

Webcam

/!\

Ports

HDMI

/!\

Thunderbolt

/!\

USB

/!\

Sound

Headphone jack

{X}

Speakers

{X}

Last update: 2018-08-01T00:42:23+0000

Legend

(./) OK

{i} Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected

/!\ Status unknown, untested

{X} Does not work


1.3. Wi-Fi

The BCM4360 wireless network adapter does not seem to be supported just yet in the bwn(4) driver.

I installed the net/bwn-firmware-kmod port (it is not available via pkg(8) as its license does not allow for it) and then loaded the following kernel modules: if_bwn, bwn_v4_ucode and bwn_v4_lp_ucode. I've tried to load them once via kldload(8) and rc.conf(5) and once via loader.conf(5) but to no avail.

The device is not showing up as a result of sysctl net.wlan.devices.

1.3.1. References


1.4. Files


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