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airdrop for non-apple devices

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b195ce4c-e078-49be-bc13-44a72b6dc189 AirDrop between iPhones and Linux laptops whose Wi-Fi isn't Apple's Broadcom chip. Pairs with omdrop. See supported hardware. On Arch/Omarchy (AUR): On Debian or Ubuntu (from source) This builds OWL at the commit pinned in pins, with patches/, and installs it root-owned into /usr/lib/omdrop together with omdrop-discoverable and omdrop-awdl's portable tools, a polkit policy for the helper, a NetworkManager rule keeping awdl0, mon0, awdlibss0 and awdlap0 unmanaged, and a systemd .link file that keeps udev from changing awdl0's MAC address. hostapd is recommended: exclusive mode needs it on cards without ad-hoc mode. It conflicts with brcmfmac-awdl-dkms: one radio backend at a time. On Fedora (from source) This builds the same files as the Debian package into an .rpm (Fedora package names; other rpm-based distros would rename them). sudo dnf remove omdrop-owl removes them all. On NixOS (flake) The module installs the helper and its polkit policy, keeps NetworkManager off…

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  1. omdrop-owl
  2. Install
  3. Usage
  4. On Omarchy (add it as a plugin):
  5. On other Linux systems:
  6. Supported hardware
  7. Adding your card
  8. How it works
  9. Shared mode
  10. Exclusive mode
  11. Development
  12. Known issues

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airdrop for non-apple devices

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Owner
t4t5
Primary language
Shell
Stars
2,929
Forks
225
Open issues + pull requests
27
License
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Created
2026-10-08T06:38:33.000Z
Last push
2026-10-16T14:48:59.000Z

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