What hardware would you recommend for AP’s and dedicated Firewalls? I really value open-source so bonus points if it works without blobs or the hardware is open or has available schematics.

Altough a bit expensive I have looked at Protectli firewalls as an option as the option to run OPNsense and coreboot is attractive.

For an AP, the Banana PI BPI-R3 (R4 if I’m patient) sounds interesting being open hardware and supporting OpenWRT. I am however curious on if it would run on LibreCMC.

  • loganmarchione@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Are there open source APs? I was under the impression that everything required binary firmware (even if running something like OpenWrt).

    • Killercat103OP
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      1 year ago

      Well If it did I don’t think LibreCMC would be much of a thing. (Linux-Libre OpenWRT to sum it up). But the officially supported hardware seems to be ThinkPenguin, and old APs which isn’t a very rich selection. Unfortunate but thats why I wondered if the Banana Pi would work since firmware is closely tied to hardware.

      • loganmarchione@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        From their FAQ. So it seems there are free 802.11n APs…

        If the device has a DSL modem or an 802.11ac wifi chipset, the libreCMC project can’t support these devices. There are currently no fully free (libre) 802.11ac or DSL modem chipsets