I’m looking to get a used router on which to install libreCMC, but the list of supported hardware is quite short. I’d prefer to find something locally, and I doubt that I’d be able to find these particular models. However, I do not intend to use WiFi at all, so I wonder, are there any more recent routers that work 100% with libreCMC except for the WiFi? Preferably something with at least 4 Ethernet ports.

Thanks!

EDIT: What I want to know is which routers do not require any non-free firmware for any of the hardware other than the WLAN. Does anyone know of where to find such information, or how to tell based on the specifications of a router that has not actually been tested with libreCMC?

  • lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Any reason you won’t use OpenWrt? If you’d prefer linux then Tomato might be a better project for you. Routers that can run Tomato most likely can run libreCMC with some tweaks or patches from tomato applied

    • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I don’t want to run Openwrt or Tomato precisely because they include non-free firmware blobs in order to support the ac/ax WiFi chipsets, and I don’t want to spend the time and effort figuring out how to remove those when the developers of libreCMC have already done that.

      • lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I think a far better option for you then is building your own router, duel ethernet nuc + cheap ethernet switch or a rasberry pi + switch would both run fine and leave some headroom for running a firewall+dns+vpn+etc

        • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          11 hours ago

          While that sounds like an interesting project, I’m not trying to invest a lot of time and effort into this. The grass won’t stop growing back while I figure it out.

      • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        3 days ago

        You… Don’t have a smartphone? Or tablet… Or laptop? I mean, I also have ethernet ports everywhere in my home and use those most of the time, but wifi sure is nice

        • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I have a laptop that I use at the desk next to where I will put the router, and any network-attached storage will also be right there next to the router, so I have no need for WiFi. It’s fine if the WiFi could work of course, but I wouldn’t use it, and I imagine that many routers would be 100% compatible with libreCMC if not for the WiFi requiring non-free firmware. What I want to know is which routers these are that don’t require any non-free firmware for any of the hardware other than the WLAN.

          • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            3 days ago

            I’m sorry, I don’t know about routers that much. Here in France you cannot really use another router than the one provided by your ISP

        • Jim East@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          2·
          3 days ago

          I don’t want to run Openwrt or Tomato precisely because they include non-free firmware blobs in order to support the ac/ax WiFi chipsets, and I don’t want to spend the time and effort figuring out how to remove those when the developers of libreCMC have already done that.