There might be an old driver
I asked about a new driver (i.e. the topic of this thread) - but OK. You lost me.
If I knew what the driver files/packages were, I'd have tried them and maybe I have. Did you read what I've shared in this post?
That didn't change that the information about WWAN was incorrect.
I suggested the web GUI because of the difficulties you're expressing.
As I've said and reiterated, I do not use the GUI so probably not a good idea to install a large number of packages only to remove them.
Besides, as mentioned I have an official build on one device and mine on another.
I can see the GUI on the official build...
As I had mentioned earlier, even on the official build, from the command line, it seems wifi is not associated to anything.
Yes, you suggested using wwan which I'll look into but I mentioned that the wifi would not come up even on the official build. Did you see that? Pretty sure the wifi needs to come up before any other steps are taken.
option disabled '0'
Did you add that line?
What are you asking me on this point? The wireless file always has this line unless something's changed.
It disables or enables wifi.
This is what the official wireless file looks like;
# cat wireless
config wifi-device 'radio0'
option type 'mac80211'
option path 'platform/10300000.wmac'
option channel '1'
option band '2g'
option htmode 'HT20'
option disabled '0'
config wifi-iface 'default_radio0'
option device 'radio0'
option network 'lan'
option mode 'sta'
option ssid 'gst'
option encryption '111'
option key '111'
Also, did you set a country in WiFi?
Can I ask how this is pertinent to what I'm trying to do? I've never even seen such an option needed to use wireless.
It's gotten over my head because I have no experience what so ever with wifi, it's not something I
I was hoping you expound on this, but it seems you just reiterated the same information.
I'm not sure how. All you did was put '???' as your comment and now you say all I did was to reiterate so how exactly do you want me to further expand on that? I'll be happy to provide what ever information someone helping me wants but your questions are simply not clear.
Which part do you want me to explain again? That I don't have much knowledge with wifi or that it's gotten over my head without asking for help?
Sorry but many of your comments are simply cryptic and not very helpful. You sort of hint at this and that but never say very much that is useful.
Ummmmmm...AP and client aren't listed. That's a problem. Did you accidentally snip that relevant
of the line?
You can clearly see what is being shared, you didn't include the pertinent part.
***snip***
On my own build;
$ iw list
nl80211 not found.
The official build shows the information that should show up on my build once I have it right.
The official sees the AP so I snipped that info to show that my build is not even getting to that point.
The important part is what you didn't comment on, 'nl80211 not found'.
I'm kind of guessing that the solution is finding what ever that driver is that's not found, nl80211 and once I have that and related packages, can likely get wifi working on my own build.
Though, I'm not clear why the official build seems to show it has a problem with wireless being associated with a radio (I think).
I appreciate it but can you please be a little more informative. My goal is not who's right or who's wrong, it's trying to understand what I have to do to fix this issue with limited knowledge.
Ummmmmm...AP and client aren't listed. 
Therefore there's something seriously wrong and your device is not capable of being an Access Point nor a STA (i.e. client).