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Events / Re: Warpstock 2025 USA - The end of my journey with ArcaOS
« on: November 16, 2025, 10:09:25 pm »Hellowished 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?
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
Read my lengthy reply to Sigurd if it was all that simple, really I wish it was. Sadly its not. I have been looking at all of this.
What we need understand as community is what I described below:
You effectively have two approaches.
1. Port a driver, copy paste chunks and get a driver.
2. Come up with library or wrapper that does this. This what David tried twice with Linux and FreeBSD. But it backfired because simply a case of badluck. The bad luck that Linux changest the kernel somehow and then it happened again with FreeBSD.
The win32 wrapper is complete dead end. Simply because no more 32 bit drivers are being made for Windows. You know when Willebald Meyer created Genmac it was a lot of work I am not discounting that at all. But to some degree he also got lucky and here is why. The NDIS network stack on OS/2 and Windows where pretty close (no surprise of course).
One of the changes is that NDIS stack on Windows started to change that much (and the driver as well). To an extend keeping Genmac up with the changes on Windows became to much for one person to keep up with.
I wonder if people even fully grasp the parallels between Multimac and Genmac. To put it differently Willibald Meyer looked a generic solution to not write the drivers.
But wrote drivers to support the Windows drivers. My conclusion Genmac stopped working simply because the technical changes between Windows and OS/2 become to big.
ReactOS I think also only supports 32 bit wifi drivers, not 64 bit.
ReactOS seems be in the same boot as we are.
https://reactos.org/wiki/Supported_Hardware/Wireless_Network_cards
Roderick
? resolution. With waht I know about the GRADD architecture WIN/OS2 depends on the GRADD component and not the accelrated SNAP portion of the code. But I could be wrong. Can you post a screenshot of your WIN/OS2 screen as I think the resolution support of WIN/OS2 can be increased that high.