NetBSD Development

Without further ado, NetBSD 9.2 can’t use the onboard OrangePi Zero wifi adapter. This doesn’t mean much of a deal, given that Linux in practice can’t as well, at least without a quite poor out-of-tree driver. Thus, everything below although done on an OrangePi Zero, it’s valid to say that it is valid to any device running NetBSD 9.2 with a recognized wifi adapter. It will be used the DLink N300 Nano / DWA-131 adapter, one of the cheapest that is possible to get. This adapter is plug and play on NetBSD 9.2, not requiring manual loading of modules. It will show on “ifconfig” only as urtwn0: ...

So, you acquired a OrangePi? Time to make it work with something that is not Linux for… reasons. Not my concern. I know my reasons, it was simple will to use something different from the OS that I use to work for years. And that should be compiled from sources, since going to http://www.armbsd.org/arm/ is too easy. You must learn how its done, maybe it will be useful someday. Without further ado, let’s go. ...