FreeBSD Wifibox Port

This repository hosts the development of the FreeBSD port for the Wifibox project to provide proper packaging. Changes here are downstreamed to the FreeBSD ports tree time to time.

This is the development version of the port, use it only if the net/wifibox port from the FreeBSD Ports Collection does not work for some reason. Please report issues at the Wifibox project directly.

Preperations

Before trying to build the net/wifibox-alpine port, it might be easier if the dependencies are installed beforehand via packages.

# pkg install gtar patchelf squashfs-tools-ng

Also, make sure that the Linuxulator is activated, for example, by loading the corresponding kernel module. There is no need to install a full Linux base system (this is going to be done for the port itself), but if that is already there it will not cause a problem either.

# kldload linux64

Sometimes the build may crash with an Abort trap message, which results in Error 134 for make. This happens when trying to run Linux binaries atop FreeBSD, such as the APK package manager for installing the components. This usually happens on systems that have not had the Linuxulator used before and may not have the /compat/linux directory created, which is expected to be present. This issue can be fixed as follows, for example.

# mkdir -p /compat/linux

For net/wifibox-core, the default dependencies are follows, which could be also installed via packages. The socat package is only required if the Unix Domain Socket pass-through is going to be activated.

# pkg install grub2-bhyve socat

Installation

Once this repository is cloned and the necessary preparations are made, the ports can be easily installed in the standard way.

# make -C net/wifibox-alpine install clean
# make -C net/wifibox-core install clean
# make -C net/wifibox install clean

The net/wifibox is only a metaport, it is created only to make it easier to install the other two ports, which are required on the other hand. There are also flavors available, which can be learned by the following command.

# make -C net/wifibox -V FLAVORS

Flavors matter only for the wifibox and wifibox-alpine ports and they refer to the set of firmware files to be included in the guest disk image. For example, if ports should be built with the iwlwifi firmware files only, just use the corresponding flavor.

# make -C net/wifibox-alpine \
	FLAVOR=iwlwifi \
	install \
	clean

If there are many unused firmware files installed still, the FIRMWARE_FILES variable can be used to cut down on their number to list only the ones to be used. This may produce a significantly smaller guest disk image.

# make -C net/wifibox-alpine \
	FLAVOR=iwlwifi \
	FIRMWARE_FILES=iwlwifi-8000C-36.ucode \
	install \
	clean