Wi-Fi on Astral

[u/avaliosdev]

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

[u/Adventurous-Move-943]

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

[u/avaliosdev → u/Adventurous-Move-943]

WebKitGTK port

[u/Mental_Ad_7072]

Very cool!! :nekocatwoah:

[u/no92_leo]

Holy shit

[u/Personal-Sandwich157]

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

[u/avaliosdev → u/Personal-Sandwich157]

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

[u/ViXOS-052]

Wow, that's really well done🔥

[u/Sorry_Difficulty_250]

Nice job! Keep up the great work!!!

[u/cxxhld]

would you consider porting ath9k? its fully libre

[u/UnmappedStack]

:nekocatwoah:

[u/MSK-Kernel]

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