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Wireless network cards for computers require control software to make them function (firmware, device drivers). This is a list of the status of some open-source drivers for 802.11 wireless network cards.
Notable custom-firmware projects for wireless routers.Many of these will run on various brands such as Linksys, Asus, Netgear, etc. OpenWrt – Customizable FOSS firmware written from scratch; features a combined SquashFS/JFFS2 file system and the package manager opkg [1] with over 3000 available packages (Linux/GPL); now merged with LEDE.
OpenWrt (from open wireless router) is an open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux, primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic. The main components are Linux, util-linux , musl , [ 5 ] and BusyBox .
Commotion Wireless: OpenWrt: 2014-10-13 [3] 422,643 [4] DD-WRT: OpenWrt: 2019-11-09 [5] 27,104 [6] LEDE: OpenWrt: GPL, etc. N/A 72,901 [7] Merged with OpenWrt RutOS: OpenWrt: GPL, etc. 2020-01-15 [8] 499,954 [9] Operating System for Teltonika networking products LibreCMC: OpenWrt: 2018-04-02 [10] 2,099,9734 [11] Roofnet: OpenWrt: N/A N/A N/A ...
Although Asus' factory default firmware is generally more feature-rich than its competitors, [citation needed] Open source Linux-based router firmware projects such as DD-WRT, [1] OpenWrt, [2] Tomato Firmware [3] and DebWRT [4] are able to get better performance out of the devices and offer their users more flexibility and customization options.
The open source nature also fosters open source drivers which have enabled many third party and proprietary devices to work under these operating systems. See Comparison of Open Source Wireless Drivers for more information on those drivers. Linux has optional Wi-Fi support, but this is not a requirement. [4]
Gargoyle is a free OpenWrt-based Linux distribution for a range of wireless routers based on Broadcom, Atheros, MediaTek and others chipsets, [2] [3] Asus Routers, Netgear, Linksys and TP-Link routers. Among notable features is the ability to limit and monitor bandwidth and set bandwidth caps per specific IP address. [4] [5] [6] [7]
The Open Wireless Movement hosted at OpenWireless.org is an Internet activism project which seeks to increase Internet access by encouraging people and organizations to configure or install software on their own wireless router to offer a separate public guest network or to make a single public wireless access point.