Hello all, I wonder if you have any BSD system (preferably NetBSD / OpenBSD) that is compatible with these hardware configurations and network board?
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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Host Bridge -OPI (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics (rev 09)
00:03.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Audio Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB xHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #1 (rev e3)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #3 (rev e3)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #4 (rev e3)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP USB EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Wildcat Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 15)
03:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

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You might check the FreeBSD Hardware Compatibility List for starts. It should also be valid for TrueOS (was PCBSD), which is based on FreeBSD.

The wifi adapter will most likely be an issue. There is no support for QCA9565/AR9565 in the FreeBSD ath(4) driver or the OpenBSD athn(4) driver.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/ath_hal...ardwareSupport
http://man.openbsd.org/athn

If this is a laptop, you will need to ensure that you can replace the mini pci-e wifi adapter with something supported. If it's e.g. an HP or a Lenovo which uses a hardware whitelist, you will be stuck with what you have (or a limited choice of, most likely, unsupported alternatives).

FreeBSD may support the device using ndisgen(8) (loading the windows driver under emulation). Although I can't recommend this route, as I've no experience of it.

//edit: if you want something "mass market" ready, then TrueOS and GhostBSD (both FreeBSD based) have livecds.

Thanks guys, though, does OpenBSD or NetBSD work in most of these configurations?

As I stated above, OpenBSD's athn(4) driver does not support that device.

NetBSD 7's athn(4) driver is a port of the OpenBSD driver (so ditto).

So with that device, you're stuck with FreeBSD + ndisgen + a windows driver [possibly working].

(Or install a Linux distribution instead which has the ath9k driver, which I believe supports your device: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k)

Or if you really want OpenBSD or NetBSD, replace the wifi adapter with a supported adapter.

Before you consider the last one, you should do some research to ensure that you are buying supported hardware and that the computer, if a laptop, does not use a hardware whitelist which prevents you installing certain replacement hardware.

Didn't think the Broadwell is supported in BSD yet but looks like openbsd may have support. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...adwell-OpenBSD

DragonFly and OpenBSD both support Haswell and Broadwell, FreeBSD only supports Haswell.