| Port details |
- wifibox Wireless card driver via virtualized Linux
- 1.4.1 net
 =2      1.3.0Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch. - Maintainer: pali.gabor@gmail.com
- Port Added: 2021-08-16 00:18:07
- Last Update: 2024-03-31 17:15:24
- Commit Hash: ebd486f
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- License: NA
- WWW:
- https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox
- Description:
- Wifibox deploys a Linux guest to drive a wireless networking card on
the FreeBSD host system with the help of PCI pass-through. There have
been guides on the Internet to suggest the use of such techniques to
improve the wireless networking experience on FreeBSD, of which
Wifibox tries to implement as a single easy-to-use software package.
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- Manual pages:
- FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
- pkg-plist: as obtained via:
make generate-plist - There is no configure plist information for this port.
- Dependency lines:
-
- To install the port:
- cd /usr/ports/net/wifibox/ && make install clean
- To add the package, run one of these commands:
- pkg install net/wifibox
- pkg install wifibox
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.- PKGNAME: wifibox
- Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
- default: wifibox
- ath10k: wifibox-ath10k
- ath11k: wifibox-ath11k
- ath12k: wifibox-ath12k
- brcm: wifibox-brcm
- iwlwifi: wifibox-iwlwifi
- mediatek: wifibox-mediatek
- marvell: wifibox-marvell
- rt61: wifibox-rt61
- rtlwifi: wifibox-rtlwifi
- rtw88: wifibox-rtw88
- rtw89: wifibox-rtw89
- ONLY_FOR_ARCHS: amd64
- distinfo:
- There is no distinfo for this port.
Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
- Dependencies
- NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
- Runtime dependencies:
-
- wifibox-core>0 : net/wifibox-core
- wifibox-alpine>0 : net/wifibox-alpine
- There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:- No options to configure
- Options name:
- net_wifibox
- USES:
- metaport
- pkg-message:
- For install:
-
Please read the wifibox(8) manual page first to learn about the
configuration and use.
- Master Sites:
- There is no master site for this port.
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| Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page) |
| Commit | Credits | Log message |
|---|
1.4.1
31 Mar 2024 17:15:24
 |
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.4.1
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.4.0
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.4.1 |
1.3.0
28 Sep 2023 07:52:37
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.3.0
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.3.0 |
1.2.2
28 Mar 2023 09:07:10
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.2.2
- Add missing `pkg-message` file
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.2.2 |
1.2.1
21 Feb 2023 00:51:21
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.2.1
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.2.1 |
1.2.0
07 Feb 2023 17:29:44
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.2.0
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.2.0 |
07 Sep 2022 21:58:51
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner) |
1.1.1
07 Sep 2022 21:10:59
|
Stefan Eßer (se) |
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
(Only the first 15 lines of the commit message are shown above  ) |
1.1.1
26 Aug 2022 12:00:33
|
Baptiste Daroussin (bapt) |
metaport: remove license
metaports do not contain any licensed files, or materials |
1.1.1
20 Jul 2022 11:51:54
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.1.1
- Update Linux to 5.15.53
- Replace the in-tree driver for Realtek RTL8821CE
- Update linux-firmware to 20220708
- Increase guest memory to 64 MB by default for flavors other than
`iwlwifi` which can fix crashes under load
MFH: 2022Q3 |
1.1.0
27 Jun 2022 11:32:32
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox*: Update to 1.1.0
- Update net/wifibox-core to 0.10.0
- Update to Linux 5.15.49, linux-firmware 20220610, Alpine 3.16.0
- Update WPA Supplicant to 2.10
- Add support for hostapd(8) -- see port options
- Add support for AMD RZ608 Wi-Fi 6E
- Expose NAT and networking configuration of the guest
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.10.0 |
1.0.0
07 May 2022 05:29:10
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 1.0.0
- Split the port into net/wifibox-core and net/wifibox-alpine (image)
- Update net/wifibox-core to 0.9.0
- Switch to fully scripted image building with minimalistic base (using
Linux 5.15.36, linux-firmware 20220411) and many selectable components
(see port options), lower resource needs, based on SquashFS
- Introduce package flavors per default firmware configuration
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.9.0 |
0.8.3
07 May 2022 05:29:07
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.8.3
- Add a pkg-message for facilitating initial configuration
- Base sample configuration defaults on the `WPA_PASSTHRU` port option
This commit is required to be able to merge it to quarterly branch
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.8.3
https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-image/releases/tag/snapshot-20220428
MFH: 2022Q2 (usability fixes) |
0.8.2
14 Apr 2022 13:23:59
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.8.2
- Update image to Alpine Linux 3.15.4:
https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.12.12-3.13.10-3.14.6-3.15.4-released.html
Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox/releases/tag/0.8.2
MFH: 2022Q2 (due to a security update in the image) |
0.8.1
29 Mar 2022 17:18:35
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.8.1
- Reroll disk image to capture Alpine Linux 3.15.3 |
0.8.0
08 Mar 2022 08:48:25
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.8.0 |
0.7.0
09 Feb 2022 10:53:53
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.7.0 |
0.6.2
15 Jan 2022 10:19:15
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.6.2 |
0.6.1
30 Dec 2021 05:30:09
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: PÁLI Gábor János |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.6.1 |
0.5.0
13 Sep 2021 00:34:33
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: Gabor Pali |
net/wifibox: Update to 0.5.0 |
0.3.1
16 Aug 2021 00:13:51
|
Ashish SHUKLA (ashish)
Author: Gabor Pali |
net/wifibox: New port: Wireless card driver
Wifibox deploys a Linux guest to drive a wireless networking card on
the FreeBSD host system with the help of PCI pass-through. There have
been guides on the Internet to suggest the use of such techniques to
improve the wireless networking experience on FreeBSD, of which
Wifibox tries to implement as a single easy-to-use software package.
PR: 257682 |
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