HardwareRecommendation
Help completing the GNU-Recommendation
Circumventing FCC Hardware Lockdown
- Having Openwrt run on a Virtual Machine: (Virtual Box OR QEMU) + Image + Authentication(script) of the Software
- Boards having a USB or better mPCIe socket: Board + external Wifi + Image + Authentication, Check the boards below wether they contain the following chipsets Allwinner A10/A13/A20, Freescale iMX, Samsung Exynos, MediaTek SoCs, these are to be preferred!
- Boards having Wifi built-into (maybe blocked by FCC too): AR9390 (AR93xx)2.7Ghz, MT7662 for 5Ghz
- Routers TL-WDR4300 as long as it works, a libre hardware router: WRTnode
| Name | chipset | only free software bootloader incl. | OpenWRT support | Debian support | mPCIe-socket | usb | comment | Price in September 2015 with currency | Link to trusted openwrt-image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PandaBoard | |||||||||
| Novena | |||||||||
| Mizar32 | |||||||||
| Minnowboard | |||||||||
| Randaboard ( 1, 2 | |||||||||
| BeagleBone Black | |||||||||
| OLinuXino | |||||||||
| RadxaRock |
more libre hardware:
- https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/criteria
- https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
- https://h-node.org/
- https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
further helpful links: