Kirill A. Korinsky (kirill@) has added 160MHz channel width support (5GHz) to #OpenBSD's net80211 wireless stack, with the first driver receiving support being iwx(4) for Intel WiFi 6/6E devices. ​

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177482168603769&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177482177103784&w=2

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=177488186305325&w=2

BSDCan 2026 is June 19-20, with tutorials 17-18. If you register before May 1, the closing reception is free!

Register at https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/registration.html

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📢 Calling all BSD enthusiasts! 😈⛳️🐡

The call for papers for EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels is open, and we're looking for your brilliant ideas! 🌟

Got a groundbreaking discovery in *BSD applications, architecture, or implementation? Or maybe you've cracked the code on performance and security? We want to hear from you!

Don't miss this chance to:
- Demonstrate how *BSD are tackling today’s challenges and solving real-world problems.
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- Unveil your best practices, clever hacks, and practical tips for optimizing and fine-tuning *BSD.
- Unlock the full potential of *BSD to maximizing efficiency, speed, and scalability.
- Showcase your expertise in hardening *BSD and building robust defenses against modern threats.
- Highlight how *BSD is driving change in economic, organizational, and societal contexts.

https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2026/cfp

Deadline: June 20, 2026 🕒

Let's make EuroBSDCon 2026 the best one yet! See you in Brussels! 🌟

EuroBSDCon 2026 in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪
September 09-13, 2026

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OpenBSD adventures, day two. My MacBook with arm64 is running fine under OpenBSD, but there is no video acceleration, so it can't play full-screen videos.

I started to think what I can do about it, and I realised that we had a few e-waste Chromebooks bought for $20 apiece. It's 1.5GHz Celeron, and it is as dodgy as laptops get: it is spray-painted, it is made of cheap plastic, and the keyboard and the touchpad are both kind of only look like real ThinkPad but there were so many corners cut making it that I can't type "root" without it missing a letter or two every other time. This is what kids apparently were using in schools ten years ago or so?

Some things are glacially slow, but Xfce4 is quite usable, and it can play YouTube in 720p. Everything the laptop has to offer seems to be working (even webcam).

It works incredible for an ultra-low-end device from 2013.