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   :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:33:38 JST :umu: :umu:
   openwrt'ed my router
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:33:36 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @a1ba Meanwhile I kind of want to Alpine my old OpenWRT router just in case I'd need it again.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:40:33 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @a1ba DAP? You mean like ISP's modem or something?
     
     And yeah my WRT54GL and Acer c7 v2 (old openwrt router) are I think the only mips32 machines I have. (Kind of wish I'd have a mips64 board/machine to play with…)
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:40:35 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @lanodan funnily enough I now have two mips devices. This router and the DAP, both run free software (tm)
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:43:06 JST 翠星石

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     @a1ba @lanodan Unfortunately, "Open"WRT is not free software, as they always use only proprietary versions of Linux.
     
     The TP link ax23 uses a Wi-Fi card that requires proprietary software to operate and I suspect the version of u-boot used is proprietary, which means that it is not possible to run only free software unless you work out how to replace u-boot with a free version and don't use the internal Wi-Fi card (that router has no usb port, thus you can't just plug in a external card) and there isn't other other proprietary tricks like a 1000BASE-T card that needs propriety software.
     
     
     My router is GNUbooted and runs 100% free software.
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     :umu: :umu: (a1ba@suya.place)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:43:58 JST :umu: :umu:

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     @lanodan digital audio player
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:48:29 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy @lanodan @a1ba It's free software - they take "Open"WRT and remove the proprietary software and replace Linux with GNU Linux-libre.
     
     Hardware support is quite limited, but the supported hardware seems to be dirt cheap if you can find it really.
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 01:48:30 JST DulceKennedy

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     @Suiseiseki @lanodan @a1ba what are your thoughts on LibreCMC?
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:08:06 JST DulceKennedy

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @Suiseiseki @lanodan @a1ba you mentioned your router is GNUbooted - what's your setup like?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:08:06 JST 翠星石

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     • DulceKennedy
     @ElDeadKennedy @lanodan @a1ba I have a GNUbooted KGPE-D16 with dual 16 core Opterons as a server.
     
     The server is also configured to serve as a router and a free software Wi-Fi AP via a bash script that configures firewall rules and routing and some netifrc scripts.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:55:35 JST 翠星石

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     • DulceKennedy
     @sally @ElDeadKennedy @a1ba @lanodan When you have several GNUbooted thinkpads going and no need for high bandwidth, it is more convenient to be able to use Wi-Fi.
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:55:36 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     • DulceKennedy
     @Suiseiseki @ElDeadKennedy @a1ba @lanodan
     
     I'm surprised you have WLAN at all. What for?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:59:09 JST 翠星石

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     • GNU Tar
     @ElDeadKennedy @freetar @sally @lanodan @a1ba Storage on an external flash drive is kind of hacky and is unreliable - but it can be made to work.
     
     Generally such kind of routers cannot run recent versions of BusyBox/Linux, due to how bloated Linux has become unless you at least do a 16MiB SPI flash chip mod (which is a difficult soldering job) and then do a special external packages configuration.
     
     Also, every time you update, you'd need to redo the external configuration and reinstall any extra software you used.
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:59:10 JST DulceKennedy

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     @sally @Suiseiseki @freetar @lanodan @a1ba some of them have a USB port, can't you add an external drive?
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:59:11 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     • GNU Tar
     @freetar @ElDeadKennedy @Suiseiseki @a1ba @lanodan
     
     You're not gonna have a good time with most of these routers as they have less than 10MiB of embedded storage, last time I tried freeing one of these router there was not enough space to install the bare minimum packages, the kernel alone took nearly half the total storage.
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     GNU Tar (freetar@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 02:59:13 JST GNU Tar

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     • DulceKennedy
     @ElDeadKennedy @Suiseiseki @lanodan @a1ba
     https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.es.html#small-distros
     
     LibreCMC soporta routers de TP-Link bastante fáciles de conseguir en Argentina. Además, creo que algunos permiten reprogramar el software del dispositivo desde su interfaz de configuración web.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:03:27 JST 翠星石

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     • GNU Tar
     @sally @ElDeadKennedy @a1ba @freetar @lanodan If you want to use an external HDD, you'll need to use an externally powered one or a powered usb hub as the ports are only designed to handle USB flash drives.
     
     There can even be issues with routers with 5GHz signals (802.11n or 802.11ac) and USB 3.0 ports due to all the noise USB 3.0 pumps out on those bands, but that isn't applicable in this case.
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sally@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 28-May-2025 03:03:29 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @ElDeadKennedy @Suiseiseki @freetar @lanodan @a1ba
     
     I tried that and it didn't like it, it failed to mount the drive on boot and the router nearly bricked. I suspect the drive was taking too much power through that port and the router couldn't spin it, USB flash drive might work the recommended solution is to swap the flash storage with a bigger chip, it's cheap but requires tinkering and time I don't have.
     
     Honestly I'd rather get a cheap laptop and use that as a router, routers are abysmal dogshit.