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FreeBSD On Laptops Sees New Power Management Driver, WiFi 4 / WiFi 5 Progress


Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others

Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others. This has resulted in power management improvements, increasing the focus on WiFi driver support for FreeBSD, and related areas to make FreeBSD on laptops more appealing and relevant in 2025. As part of broadening the wireless/WiFi hardware driver support, the Linux KPI kernel programming interface has been seeing work to enhance the ability for Linux WiFi drivers to work on FreeBSD systems.

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