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Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS

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Dave Yeo:
Seems to be an NDIS device but the only drivers I found were Windows 11, no Linux or BSD on a quick look on DuckDuckGo. You could try searching Google for vendor 0BB4 Device 0FFE but without a BSD driver I doubt that ArcaOS can build a driver for your device. You could also open a ticket and do a testlog network with the device plugged in and set for tethering, or I guess your device calls it modem mode.
Mine has WiFi hotspot, USB tethering, Bluetooth tethering and Ethernet tethering in the settings. The Ethernet tethering does look interesting, guess plug a USB ethernet dongle in and plug the other end into the computer.
Edit: Should be testlog generic if you open a ticket but with how few USB network devices that AOS supports I doubt that you will have success.

andreas:
wished i was a programmer to contribute to the development of a WIFI-driver.
What about the idea to start a project to develop one together - online with the help of all who have the knowledge, time and interest - step by step. Would that be feasible?

Andi B.:

--- Quote ---who have the knowledge, time and interest
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* who have the knowledge
* time and
* interest
Tell me when you have a candidate for only one of the above 3 questions.

Seriously, I've been the maintainer of xwlan and our port of wpa_supplicant for about a decade. Although I've fixed and extended a lot and invested countless hours, even these two project are far from what we would need today. And that's only an interface to a driver. I know porting or writing a wifi driver would be a lot of more (huge more) work. From my experience the majority of 'non programmers' don't even get feedback. Not to talk about helping out with testing or writing readme's..... So dream on.

Dave Yeo:
Security also becomes very important with a WiFi driver. Especially if being used in a public space.

Martin Iturbide:
Hello

--- Quote from: andreas on November 12, 2025, 04:01:10 pm ---wished i was a programmer to contribute to the development of a WIFI-driver.
What about the idea to start a project to develop one together - online with the help of all who have the knowledge, time and interest - step by step. Would that be feasible?

--- End quote ---

Even that the Andi B's comments are right, I was wondering if a more dirty/non-elengant/hack aproach can be worked out to have wifi drivers with less effort. Like just focusing on some basic wifi first and maybe not fully functional first. Maybe going back the 32bits windriver wrapper idea, or focusing on some USB wifi dongles.

Regards

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