This is certainly a very interesting and welcome development.
So go a long way to prevent thieves and governments from exploiting
insecurities in the majority of consumer closed source routers.
I think I will have to buy one:)
Richard
I think they're not doing that any more.
Cool. You may want to edit the URL in your opening post too.
I wonder if it would help you if I purchased a Netgear WNDR3800 from another
vendor and tested libreCMC on that? I'd prefer to buy from you, but I'd have
to pay import duty and the network interface on the router you're currently
Unfortunately, The first post of a thread can't be modified in this forum
software.
Christ
Well people there you have it, a Libre-router for a libre GNU-Linux OSI.
Even do, personally I have not tested yet and this is my opinion, having this
kind of router, basically it saying YOU have your own very private WiFi.
Christ, correct me If I'm wrong.
Lets take in
Chris
Question about this router?
Does the router has the feature to edit a splash WWW page link?
Actually, I do host my own Web page privately.
My old Cisco Links WiFi, that I um-brick is using LibreWRT, It has that
feature. Basically, when anyone logs into my WiFi, the welcome page Pops.
Chris and Christ are not the same thing. Chris is short for the male
given name Christopher. Christ is the title which was given to Jesus of
Nazareth (the guy who supposedly started Christianity). I'd fix this habit of
yours if I were you, because Christ is also an interjection indicating
Unsure. It's probably got it or could be added. Again it's derived from
OpenWRT basically which is the same thing LibreWRT is based on, but with more
up to date components.
I can't see any harm in it. Not sure if its going to work for you or not. The
key thing is that its using the atheros ath9k chipsets I believe. Though
there may be other issues besides this even if it works.
While I think I agree with the sentiment it's probably not as bad as it
sounds. The problem with Trisquel is that there are a few components which
need to be backported in order to have support for the most recent hardware.
Trisquel 6 would be fine if only it had a few other components
That's not the same issue. It's a bug.
There are two parts here. One is my perspective in at least how it relates to
ThinkPenguins and one is RISCis. From RISCis perspective I think it is best
summed up as things weren't going the way he wanted them to. Other people
involved wanted to take things in a different direction (I
First of all this isn't one router really. There are different versions of
this router like most routers and it all depends on which version your
talking about. I believe that if LibreWRT was more up to date than some of
these routers would probably work. It's likely that LibreCMC will work
That's exactly what I've been saying all along, because of all the
fragmentation, we have very smart people all working on the same thing and in
turn it results in less work done as what they're all doing redundant, we
have people doing jobs that are already done elsewhere.
What's more,
Free software does support the new stuff - for instance Parabola supports
new hardware.
The only reason Trisquel doesn't is because it is based on Ubuntu so it is
always released after Ubuntu. And as I said before I think this is not one of
free software's main issues as one can always use
But I'm saying there's no real reason why you shouldn't be able to buy new
hardware if you really want it. Every day people are not going to go out and
get an older computer especially when theirs should work, and do work with
systems like Parabola. All I'm saying is it's unfortunate that it
If you buy new hardware it usually requires more work to get working than
hardware that is say 2 years old and is already fully supported. Bear in mind
that even with Ubuntu you will usually need to use a non long term release if
you have new hardware which means you will need to update to a
Chris
Is there any chance for us the router savvy people user, to see any
screenshots of what is inside the SETTINGS, for example: Port forward, login,
DNS, DHCP SETTINGS, QS, bandwidth management, ETC.
I hope is not much of a headache to post some screen shots.
Respectfully
David
I'm not sure how we might even go about preventing wireless devices with
non-free firmware from connecting. I don't think that is a good idea either.
While I'm in favour of leaving out non-free components particularly
unnecessary ones (ie there is a free solution available) taking steps to
That looks great :)
And preventing people from using wifi adapters with nonfree firmware is a
horrible idea. It sounds similar to what proprietary software companies do.
I think you need to back up a moment. It's probably not quite as bad as you
think. LibreCMC didn't take a significant amount of time to produce. As I
stated its more like a LibreWRT v2. I'm not even sure why after this is
released you would want to use LibreWRT. 2nd had you contributed to
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter
It'll probably be available, but not yet. We're still in development.
Yes, I hope that gets fixed. I thought the Linux-libre developers were
finding a way to prevent suggesting nonfree firmware while not blocking it.
How is the router any different from this one?
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr841nd
This router has an Atheros card supported by a free driver. Is there a reason
Libreboot or any other free distro hasn't been ported to it?
Libreboot isn't a distro; it's a free version of Coreboot. You probably meant
LibreWRT or LibreCMC.
Yes I meant LibreWRT.
No WPA2?
The *key* thing here is this router ships with 100% free software, will be
RYF certified (shortly), will be funding LibreCMC development, and is
commercially available. No other commercially available router on the market
ships with or runs a 100% free OS right now. If we get LibreCMC off
LibreWRT only supports one? or maybe two older routers that aren't available
on the market.
I thought I'd also mention that one of the original and lead developers
(ex-developers) of LibreWRT founded LibreCMC and is also our CTO. If that
makes any sense in regards to the 'modern' comment above. One of the goals of
the project is to keep it up to date (more bleeding edge). Something
I just have a cheap router but liberating my router is my next goal after my
PC. Is this based on DD-WRT or is it something different? I imagine DD-WRT
has binary blobs in it's kernel? Is this a distro that takes those out or is
this something different?
Yes- Like LibreWRT LibreCMC has taken OpenWRT and ripped out a ton of code.
At the moment that's about all it is. However if there is demand and people
contributing there is a lot of potential for the router and other devices or
types of devices. Particularly ones that are freedom-oriented.
From reading this I get the feeling of LibreWRT is old and crusty - Come use
LibreCMC. LibreWRT's goal isn't only support old stuff. Help on LibreWRT
is always welcome. That's always been the case. For some reason one of the
people involved in LibreWRT got the impression that their work
Chris
I volunteer!! check your e-mail that I send you via your web site.
Got the email, but the response to it bounced back. You probably entered a
wrong address in the contact form. In any event you can participate. I added
shipping options for the Philippines and Canada so you can order one now. No
reason it shouldn't work. The router supports up to 240V and
Yes I know that but the LibreWRT page doesn't say which non free components
are required to run it on other routers so one might get the impression that
they simply didn't port it yet to other routers. Also, searching for LibreWRT
and the router wr841n actually provides some source code
We're almost finished with a new free software embedded distribution called
LibreCMC. We're also testing it against a few routers. One router in
particular will be supported commercially. It's not yet RYF certified yet
although should be in short order.
What I'm looking for is a handful of
What's the difference between this distro and libreWRT?
It's modern. LibreWRT is based on a very old code base that isn't compatible
with routers out today. LibreCMC is.
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