jutty,
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Alas, I have to consider some other hardware that is more BSD friendly than what I currently have for my main laptop. Wifi worked great on NetBSD, whereas it was flaky on FreeBSD, but the audio input was the flaky one.

A ThinkPad, maybe? I'll gladly accept hardware recommendations for BSD-friendly models from at least a decade ago (read: cheap).

Current status: Deciding between Void and Alpine for the next episode of The Main Machine Trials®

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greggyb,
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@jutty Many laptops still have user-serviceable wireless cards. Atheros tends to be well supported among permissively licensed OSes. And they're much cheaper than even decade old laptops.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=atheros+wireless+cards

netbsd,
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@greggyb @jutty Sadly most from Lenovo have BIOS whitelists by default, forbidding you from changing the card, though there's the option of getting an X230 with Coreboot pre-installed from various vendors.

I've been using an X260 for the past years, though I use an USB WiFi device (urtwn) or ethernet for reliability.

greggyb,
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@netbsd @jutty Yeah, that is a pretty lame part about Lenovo machines. I loved my x260 and its dual batteries, but I've recently moved to a #FrameworkLaptop and I couldn't be happier.

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