Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software friendly router
It is possible to run OpenWRT on the Beaglebone Black. Perhaps it would be possible to use the Beaglebone or similar ARM single board computer with LibreCMC (if ports exist, or indeed OpenWRT itself)? This is something I'm interested in doing myself as it turns out.
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I just bought a Wireless-N Mini VPN Router from TP along with their VPN service. Really excited to try it out and have a free, open alternative. :)
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Hello everyone, and hello Chris, thank you for taking time to answer people's questions. It's wonderful to see a company so passionate about free software that someone from there will take the time to answer questions and explain things to us. I want to buy a libre computer and possibly a router, and I've been to the TP site a few times. Now that I've seen this thread, I'm even more impressed, and will see how I can manage the finances. If I have any questions I'll surely know where to go for help. There are so many wonderful people who have been very helpful to me. This tech stuff is so over my head but very fascinating. I'm extremely grateful to this community. :D Thanks again.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best free software friendly router
It is possible to run OpenWRT on the Beaglebone Black. Perhaps it would be possible to use the Beaglebone or similar ARM embedded single board computer with LibreCMC (if ports exist, or indeed OpenWRT itself)? This is something I'm interested in doing myself as it turns out.
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Yes it runs only free software and it is best router that can be found on the market has dual wifi and 128 mb ram dual usb.
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Interesting: http://beagleboard.org/project/apstability/
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Will it run free software only environment? I suspect not :-(
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TP-LINK-wdr4300 http://iot-dev.net/ar1p1.html
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I was under the impression that LibreCMC is based directly on OpenWRT.
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Yes, you're right - LibreWRT and libreCMC are both based on OpenWRT. LibreWRT and libreCMC merged together because it made sense to have 1 libre fork of OpenWRT instead of two different groups working on essentially the same goal.
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It is based on OpenWRT?
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They don't do a very good job at keeping linked to the latest version, so it only looks like nothing is going on. Timeline shows the 1.3.4 release announcement but didn't seem to make it to the release section yet. jxself has already posted the URL to 1.3.4 binaries. If you wanted more control and greater customization, just follow their simple guide for compiling it yourself... https://librecmc.org/librecmc/wiki?name=Build+HOWTO Super easy to do. And it allows you to compile in useful things like SQM and BCP38 that are not in their prebuilt images. Only at the part where it says... fossil open ../librecmc.fossil v1.3.x ...do this instead... fossil open ../librecmc.fossil v1.3.4 ...or you will end up compiling 1.3 trunk instead of 1.3.4. I compiled 1.3.4 a day after its release and have been running it on two WNDR3800 units. Zero issues. I absolutely love libreCMC. So much cleaner than openWRT and no blobs.
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"Is libreCMC still under active development?" Yes. "the last release from last year." What?! No it's not. Version 1.3.4 came out two months ago in July: https://librecmc.org/librecmc/downloads/snapshots/v1.3.4/ar71xx/luci/ You should visit their IRC channel. It's quite active. Some people were talking about VoIP stuff in there earlier today.
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It's discontinued. If we had the time and resources I might fix this. It's more important that I keep on top of actually resolving other issues. Like review our new web site so that the web developer can fix any issues. Or work on fixing some issues that we still have with getting the newer models out the door.
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We do have a mini VPN router that'll also act as a normal wireless router if you do not purchase it with VPN service (it only has one LAN port and one WAN port, you'd have to get a switch to utilize it with more than one wired device/computer): https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1100
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Ok, after performing some research I now get the general idea about this whole "FCC vs. free firmware" issue. @Chris: I think it's very confusing that the official link from the FSF website redirects to an "access denied" page. I know that you must be very busy these days but wouldn't it be a good idea to create a simple page explaining all the backgrounds to potential customers (or at least linking to such a page)?
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So basically at the moment ThinkPenguin's funding LibreCMC's development, infrastructure, etc, 100%. It's not exactly a profitable thing, but it's also potentially a break even thing if we ever got around to adding 3-4 devices running LibreCMC to our catalog. We're close. But it's challenging given a lack of resources. Trisquel's also getting 25% of the profits from any sales coming from http://libre.thinkpenguin.com so I would encourage you to utilize that URL. It helps us to gauge how practical certain projects might be. For example I have a decent idea that targeting free software users has a not-insignificant return so it makes sense to say target free software users when we help with/do a campaign like crowd funding the EOMA68 standard/laptop/Libre Tea Computer Card. If I thought it wouldn't have helped enough we'd probably have pushed more outside the free software community (as hilarious as that sounds given it is a libre project). I think the overwhelming # of people who went with the Libre Tea Computer Card over other options demonstrated very well that it wasn't a mistake. Many people mistakenly believe that the free software community has no impact. That's not true. We didn't primarily target free software users. That was only maybe 2/10's of those targeted. The majority of people targeted were from outside the free software universe. We got a bunch of other projects and things we contribute to financially. 10% of the amount from sales sold via certain third parties goes to the FSF. It's not something that is well known. There are lots of other examples like this. Some are more substantial than this. We primarily only spend marketing $$$ in places where it has a benefit to freedom-related projects. I'm using that word very broadly here. It would encompass non-software related endeavours as well.
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It is possible to run OpenWRT on the Beaglebone Black. Perhaps it would be possible to use the Beaglebone or similar ARM single board computer with LibreCMC (if ports exist, or indeed OpenWRT itself)? This is something I'm interested in doing myself as it turns out.
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Cris, does Trisquel's part of donated money goes to some Libre project like routers?
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I'm confused now. Does that mean that I can't buy the mentioned router from you at this moment? If yes, I still don't understand why exactly. What's your suggestion in the meantime? I need a new router right now, unfortunately. If you don't sell this router, I would have to buy this model from some other place and flash it myself or turn to your competitors. However, I don't want to do that, as I like your shop, its ideology and this new modular laptop and I wpuld like to support that.
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I may have answered this already, but here is why we don't have the new models released. We're working on a dual-band 802.11n router. It's done. Problem is we need $$$. It's something like $30,000+ USD for just this one model which we don't have at the moment. Hopefully I'll pull the cash together shortly for it. There has been a lot going on and the profits on the new router will be seriously lower making it even more difficult to make work. The lower end router would be easier, but the work on that isn't complete.
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That seems less than optimal. I probably would try to inform him of the situation via https://www.thinkpenguin.com/contact
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I already contacted him but didn't get a reply so far, which is why I tried to ask here whether you know of some other sources I could use to get a new router and help free software at the same time.
