The professional forum lurker awakes..
The title very much says it all, anyway. (late 2008 aluminium macbook)
random facts:
- It's shiny
It's new
There's currently no native wireless support on bsd for it (afaik)
I have one of those
I'm forced to run gnu/linux bloat on it
Now.. im not going to have a damned rant on the subject, I am just looking for some advice on which snapshot or release of *BSD (freebsd preferred) i should throw at it. I've succesfully installed 7.1-Release on it, but there were some odd issues with the macbook's internal keyboard. (when I touched the internal kb it would freak out the whole user input).
The kb problem was still there after first boot so i threw Linux on it. At some point I decided to throw a snapshot of 8-current on it.. -> instant panic
Why I'm even looking to put (free)bsd on this macbook? well.. I don't really care about things like the multitouch function of the touchpad, or some hotkeys to modify screen brightness -> I would just put a tiling wm(awesome) on it and be happy.
to the main question:
Should I start asking on the mailing lists about the kb issues or just wait a year for some support to arrive?
Added info:
chipset is the newish nvidia mcp79 <- officially not yet supported?
wireless: broadcom 4322
gigabit lan: works with the nfe freebsd driver
nvidia geforce 9400M <- supported by nvidia binaries
touchpad: this is a new model (like with the macbook air, only 1 big button) <-
yeah.. this probably belongs to the hardware section.