net/wifibox-alpine 20260927 FreeBSD

Wifibox guest based on Alpine Linux

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-09-27
Commit: dba095fc30
License: BSD2CLAUSE
Categories: net

Description

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.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

net/wifibox-alpine

20260927

GhostBSD

net/wifibox-alpine

20260329

Install

Binary package:

pkg install wifibox-alpine

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/net/wifibox-alpine/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	wifibox-alpine>0:net/wifibox-alpine

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	-	20260927	-	-	-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	-	20260927	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:latest	-	20260927	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	-	20260927	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	-	20260927	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Build 4

gtar>0 : archivers/gtar
mtools>0 : filesystems/mtools
patchelf>0 : sysutils/patchelf
squashfs-tools-ng>0 : filesystems/squashfs-tools-ng

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 17

Run dependencies 1

net/socat

Required by 1

net/wifibox

Configuration

Options name: net_wifibox-alpine

Option

Default

Description

APP_ACCESS_POINT

off

Access Point (hostapd)

APP_SUPPLICANT

Supplicant (wpa_supplicant)

COMP_GZIP

off

gzip

COMP_LZ4

off

lz4

COMP_LZO

off

lzo

COMP_XZ

COMP_ZSTD

off

zstd

IPV6

IPv6 support

KERN_EDGE

off

Linux edge (7.2.x)

KERN_LTS

Linux LTS (6.18.x)

UDS_PASSTHRU

Control socket pass-through (wpa_supplicant/hostapd)

XX_FORWARDING

off

User-space forwarding

XX_MDNS

off

mDNS Responder Daemon

XX_TCPDUMP

off

Packet analysis with tcpdump

Service scripts: none
Flavors: wifibox-alpine-brcm-20260927, wifibox-alpine-rt61-20260927, wifibox-alpine-rtw88-20260927, wifibox-alpine-rtw89-20260927, wifibox-alpine-ath10k-20260927, wifibox-alpine-ath11k-20260927, wifibox-alpine-ath12k-20260927, wifibox-alpine-iwlwifi-20260927, wifibox-alpine-marvell-20260927, wifibox-alpine-rtlwifi-20260927, wifibox-alpine-mediatek-20260927

Files

Manual pages 1

wifibox-alpine(5)

pkg-plist 39

@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/hostname.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/interfaces.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/iptables.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/sysctl.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/udhcpd.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/uds_passthru.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/dhcpcd.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/ip6tables.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/radvd.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/sysctl.d/ipv6.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/hostapd/hostapd.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/mdnsd-services.conf.sample
@sample(,,640) etc/wifibox/appliance/forwarding.conf.sample
etc/wifibox/app_config
share/man/man5/wifibox-alpine.5.gz
share/wifibox/esp.img
share/wifibox/root.img
/var/run/wifibox/appliance/lock
/var/run/wifibox/appliance/run
/var/run/wifibox/appliance/spool/cron/crontabs
/var/run/wifibox/appliance/spool/mail
@dir /var/run/hostapd
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/cache/misc
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/cache
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/empty
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/lib/dhcpcd
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/lib/iptables
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/lib/misc
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/lib
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/local
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/log
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/mail
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/opt
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/spool/cron
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/spool
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance/tmp
@dir /var/run/wifibox/appliance
@dir /var/run/wifibox

distinfo 45

File

Size

SHA256

wifibox-alpine/alpine-minirootfs-3.24.2-x86_64.tar.gz

3.701382e+06

c5ca053cfe1d85c5b96dff8b9bc57045f7f184a30ffb6b65776409ca90388677

wifibox-alpine/linux-firmware-20260916.tar.xz

6.62182768e+08

f80dcb757a623deda62200c08e0e1a88c76fb6b54964f31b35fa74da1c90ccc5

wifibox-alpine/baselayout-3.7.2-r0.apk

13358

261c2065f9fc8d9c4c9aa0e55ed2a76f405bb7ee88ec10de6fc7f9c88886960f

wifibox-alpine/busybox-1.37.0-r5.apk

353917

15bbd9506a5f6fbf073745c2227d8437c2b58f1dccfd67ad9d7c0c4b16a2363d

wifibox-alpine/ifupdown-ng-0.13.0-r0.apk

65975

cdf30c4d98ca54bd41c5443628b6dae7dcdd895d610c962d21840551c6d5f624

wifibox-alpine/iptables-1.8.13-r0.apk

399717

dfd43b098b45c4d94a119d7db2a355f84794f243f3cbc52e92b44355335bd42f

wifibox-alpine/iw-6.17-r0.apk

102983

a79c6920ebf5029797f1725fcf3acb5496c91e5e2ff1a375a63f943008b7ba94

wifibox-alpine/libcap2-2.78-r0.apk

21582

42886a7b4bcde26347c712925c8dc7db202b6029ef9b8c7ee81577ab7bdd8fad

wifibox-alpine/libcrypto3-3.5.8-r0.apk

1.978546e+06

161223a16f042b8e469e9441291e071464fd91d4f4bbe6f496ee8d0abd4e0701

wifibox-alpine/libmnl-1.0.5-r2.apk

9003

322ce883205831dce94e90b6c3dee4fccb2099b8fa46ecc971dead14ce22deb4

wifibox-alpine/libnftnl-1.3.1-r0.apk

67237

2f4cf35959fde00fdba0dd35ef12a6739739b504e8319c97e30bd4834f98d924

wifibox-alpine/libnl3-3.11.0-r0.apk

333010

33ed874071d99643088f590ee01fb4517f487e13c4b23ff38a0963720a8d80bb

wifibox-alpine/libssl3-3.5.8-r0.apk

379265

aca521e5ae4a321322a9d47ed64a1775f5ab1ffd215d1e9fc0433c58f7bfd037

wifibox-alpine/musl-1.2.6-r2.apk

415475

573712e2f49c15bfc20a2699f204acdfc74c772722b15e7353d768057fae0e71

wifibox-alpine/openrc-0.63.2-r0.apk

526313

24802cf7b300889fed68d33219ef9656baf3470d391d60cfa6f5bd89922eb860

wifibox-alpine/skalibs-libs-2.15.0.0-r0.apk

84969

3301f6ccbeaea49cdd966c7e636898a8612fb8fe964a15f24f6d204b3944c3f3

wifibox-alpine/utmps-libs-0.1.3.3-r0.apk

5206

497f0f1cb51f0e6c1acc338fded0dc7722b1d43ea17bdb749f0d556794f8b2d8

wifibox-alpine/socat-1.8.1.3-r0.apk

83800

356e4775afe3d69a3ce6592fe46e343405acefa62b3e4000f532874e3cf5ebce

wifibox-alpine/socat-with-udp-1.8.1.3-r0.apk

83966

d7b5884faf4540cef45871e9a8a8123c598424518e74ef66a320de007e54587a

wifibox-alpine/uds_passthru-0.1.1-r8.apk

2964

89368d5eca536a4ca0b546825555bd733e3fe62fc229b5770e84c59e1564e840

Master sites 7

${_GITHUB_SITE}/${_WBA_BRANCH}/upstream/:upstream
${_GITHUB_SITE}/${_WBA_BRANCH}/packages/:custom_packages
${_LINUXFW_SITE}:linux_firmware
https://sources.openwrt.org/:openwrt
https://github.com/minios-linux/b43-firmware/releases/download/b43-firmware/:b43
https://thekelleys.org.uk/atmel/:atmel
https://github.com/openwrt/mt76/archive/:mt76

Commit history 1

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-09-27

dba095fc30

PÁLI Gábor János

net/wifibox: Update to 1.9.0

Changes: https://github.com/pgj/freebsd-wifibox-port/releases/tag/1.9.0