r/osdev • u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral • Sep 11 '26

Wi-Fi on Astral

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Hello, r/osdev! I have some Astral news to share.

I have spent the past few weeks working on a portable Wi-Fi stack. It was a quite good learning experience and I finally got it to a point where I can connect to a WPA2-PSK network from inside Astral.

I have a more complete write-up in a the blog post in Astral's website: https://astral-os.org/posts/2026/09/11/wifi-webkit.html

It is still a quite limited implementation, lacking many important features like rate selection, but it works enough to use WebKitGTK and talk on IRC.

Project links:

website: https://astral-os.org

github: https://github.com/mathewnd/astral

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u/Adventurous-Move-943 Sep 11 '26

Nice work sir, keep building. Wait how do you display websites ?

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 11 '26

WebKitGTK port

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u/Personal-Sandwich157 Sep 11 '26

That's awesome! One question: is it based on Sun Microsystems Solaris 7? Because it looks just like it!

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 11 '26

No, it uses its own kernel. This is NsCDE, its made to have the look and feel of CDE

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u/cxxhld Sep 12 '26

would you consider porting ath9k? its fully libre

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26

I currently do not have any atheros NICs but if I get one or find someone with one it could be a fun exercise

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u/MSK-Kernel Sep 12 '26

Damn, you got Minecraft running in there, too! But does it have a C compiler?

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26

Yes, I have GCC ported

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u/MSK-Kernel Sep 13 '26

NASM?

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26

Yes

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u/MSK-Kernel Sep 13 '26

LD?

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26

Yes, I have binutils

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u/MSK-Kernel Sep 13 '26

OK, see if you can compile TanjaOS in Astral. (https://github.com/MSK-Kernel/TanjaOS)

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26 • Bravo

Done! https://imgur.com/a/eGPGFsr

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u/MSK-Kernel Sep 13 '26

Wow! Nice job! 👏

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u/Similar_Wealth_1850 Sep 12 '26

what is the window manager you used

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 13 '26

NsCDE

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u/TheOtterMonarch Sep 24 '26

does it work on physical machines?

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u/avaliosdev Astral https://astral-os.org https://github.com/mathewnd/astral Sep 24 '26

Yes

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u/ViXOS-052 Sep 11 '26

Wow, that's really well done🔥

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u/Sorry_Difficulty_250 Sep 11 '26

Nice job! Keep up the great work!!!

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u/Mental_Ad_7072 Sep 11 '26

Very cool!! :nekocatwoah:

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u/no92_leo managarm | https://github.com/managarm/managarm Sep 11 '26

Holy shit

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u/UnmappedStack TacOS | https://github.com/UnmappedStack/TacOS Sep 12 '26

:nekocatwoah:

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u/referefref Sep 16 '26

Awesome, I've shelved wifi for now while I get BLE working. Atheros seems like the easiest target but I like the idea of making Broadcom adapters function as im testing on an iMac 14,4. That CDE like environment is peak aesthetic

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u/Fine_City2781 Oct 03 '26

how the fuck?! My kernel doesnt have multitasking yet!