HardwareRecommendation
Help completing the GNU-Recommendation
The GNU people would like to make some hardware and software recommendations to circumvent the FCC Hardware Lockdown which potentially enthreatens Open Wireless Communities especially.
Help us completing this table!
- 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: