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I've been thinking about replacing my Linksys WRT54G wireless router and was wondering if there are any products in this space which are fully open source. By this, I mean they don't have any binary drivers linked into their kernel. Even better would be no binary only firmware as well. Best would be if the hardware vendor actively encouraged replacement firmware (forums or a wiki for people to their hacks). All this in an integrated package that I don't have to assemble myself. (i.e. I don't want to plug a USB wireless dongle into a Shivaplug.) Does a product/vendor exist in this space? Thanks, Bill Bogstad P.S. In case it isn't obvious, I'm aware of the various after-market firmwares for some of the products out there. My impression is that they receive little encouragement from any of the hardware vendors and many of them depend on binary blobs (kernel drivers/firmwares) which can make it difficult/impossible to upgrade to the latest OS kernels.
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