On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 12:21:46PM -0500, Ben West wrote: > This is the thread start on the PRPL Foundation listserv discussing the > appearance of wifi routers that now have locked stock firmware that > prohibits flashing alternate firmware. Yes, *before* the FCC's proposed > rulemaking even gets approved! > http://lists.prplfoundation.org/pipermail/fcc/2015-September/000339.html > > This thread began at prompt of an Ars Technica writer, who just published > this story: > > FCC: Open source router software is still legal—under certain conditions > Locking out OpenWRT and DD-WRT is the easiest way to comply with new FCC > rules > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/09/fcc-open-source-router-software-is-still-legal-under-certain-conditions/ > > These are the specific products mentioned in the thread where locked > firmware was encountered: > Rosewill RNX-N300RTv2 > TP-Link TL-WR841N v8.2 > Netgear WNDR4300 > > Some of these products were observed to not have locked firmware > previously, even for the same hardware revision. > > The TL-WR841N, for example, appears on the list of hardware potentially > supported by Commotion, which evidently may change very soon. > https://wiki.commotionwireless.net/doku.php/development_resources/router/hardware_compatibility_list
For Freifunk there are about 13000 TP-Link TL-WR841N(D) routers currently up and running... (from about 21000 Freifunk nodes in total) (And the second prefered choice in Freifunk communities, the TP-Link TL-WDR3600 or TL-WDR4300 aren't produced/sold by TP-Link anymore) Can someone confirm that an 841N v8.2 is locked? _______________________________________________ WLANtalk mailing list [email protected] Abonnement abbestellen? -> http://lists.freifunk.net/mailman/listinfo/wlantalk-freifunk.net Weitere Infos zu den freifunk.net Mailinglisten und zur An- und Abmeldung unter http://freifunk.net/mailinglisten
