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Looking to get a used router for use with libreCMC (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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?

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[–] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (7 children)

No wifi, at all? Why?

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (6 children)

No need, and it's just easier to secure that way.

[–] Geodad@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can just run Openwrt or Tomato and turn off the wifi.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Geodad@beehaw.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Gotcha.

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