The implementation of the Wifibox embedded wireless router is based on
the use of a Linux-based guest operating system which can communicate
with the host's wireless network card on behalf of the host. In order
to meet the requirements, this has to be a system with a low resource
footprint and easy to manage. This is derived from Alpine Linux,
which is an actively maintained, security-oriented, lightweight
distribution, based on musl libc and BusyBox.
===> The following configuration options are available for wifibox-alpine-20260927:
IPV6=on: IPv6 support
UDS_PASSTHRU=on: Control socket pass-through (wpa_supplicant/hostapd)
====> Options available for the group EXTRAS
XX_MDNS=off: mDNS Responder Daemon
XX_FORWARDING=off: User-space forwarding
XX_TCPDUMP=off: Packet analysis with tcpdump
XX_DRIVER_WL=off: Broadcom 802.11 STA driver (+ firmware, exclusive)
====> Options available for the group FIRMWARE
FW_ATH10K=on: Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ac
FW_ATH11K=on: Qualcomm Atheros 802.11ax
FW_ATH12K=on: Qualcomm Atheros 802.11be
FW_ATMEL=off: Atmel at76c50x 802.11b
FW_B43=off: Broadcom B43xx 802.11a/b/g/n
FW_B43LEGACY=off: Broadcom B43xx 802.11b (legacy)
FW_BRCM=on: Broadcom 802.11n
FW_IPW2100=off: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 802.11a/b
FW_IPW2200=off: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200 802.11b/g/n
FW_IWL3945=off: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG 802.11a/b/g
FW_IWL4965=off: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi 4965AGN 802.11a/b/g/n
FW_IWLWIFI=on: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n
FW_MEDIATEK=on: MediaTek MT76xxx 802.11n, MT79xx 802.11ax
FW_MARVELL=on: Marvell 88W8xxx (TopDog) 802.11b/g/n
FW_RT61=on: Ralink RT2xxx (RT61) 802.11a/b/g
FW_RTLWIFI=on: Realtek 802.11n
FW_RTW88=on: Realtek 802.11ac
FW_RTW89=on: Realtek 802.11ax
FW_TI=off: Texas Instruments WL1xxx 802.11b/g/n
====> Options available for the single COMPRESSION: you have to select exactly one of them
COMP_GZIP=off: gzip
COMP_LZ4=off: lz4
COMP_LZO=off: lzo
COMP_XZ=on: xz
COMP_ZSTD=off: zstd
====> Options available for the single APPLICATION: you have to select exactly one of them
APP_ACCESS_POINT=off: Access Point (hostapd)
APP_SUPPLICANT=on: Supplicant (wpa_supplicant)
====> Options available for the single KERNEL: you have to select exactly one of them
KERN_LTS=on: Linux LTS (6.18.x)
KERN_EDGE=off: Linux edge (7.2.x)
===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
filesystems: add new category for file systems and related utilities
The filesystems category houses file systems and file system utilities.
It is added mainly to turn the sysutils/fusefs-* pseudo-category into
a proper one, but is also useful for the sundry of other file systems
related ports found in the tree.
Ports that seem like they belong there are moved to the new category.
Two ports, sysutils/fusefs-funionfs and sysutils/fusefs-fusepak are
not moved as they currently don't fetch and don't have TIMESTAMP set
in their distinfo, but that is required to be able to push a rename
of the port by the pre-receive hook.
Approved by: portmgr (rene)
Reviewed by: mat
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/pull/302
PR: 281988
net/wifibox-alpine: Move away from the use of Alpine Linux mirrors
Alpine Linux packages are maintained in a rolling fashion and
periodic snapshots seem to be gone recently. Store the specific
APK versions of dependencies on the project's GitHub to unbreak the
build when optional packages (e.g. mDNSResponder) are configured to
use and which are not cached by the FreeBSD distfile mirrors.
While here, start mirroring the root file system tarball in use,
just to become completely independent from the Alpine Linux CDN.
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)
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.
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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
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
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
