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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    5 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
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      4 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
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        3 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